Chironomids as indicators of the Holocene climatic and environmental history of two lakes in Northeast Greenland

Boreas

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-130

  Schmidt, Steffi ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^a   Heiri, Oliver ^b,c   Klug, Martin ^a   Bennike, Ole ^d   Melles, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOINDICATOR; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FLY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TAXONOMY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 78650400688     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00173.x     Document Type: Article

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