Sedimentary Cladocera as indicators of past water-level changes in shallow northern lakes

Quaternary Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 430-437

  Nevalainen, Liisa ^a   Sarmaja Korjonen, Kaarina ^b   Luoto, Tomi P ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Lake level; Late Holocene; Paleoclimatology; Planktonic littoral ratio; Subfossil Cladocera; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

CLADOCERA; LAKE LEVELS; LATE HOLOCENE; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PLANKTONIC/LITTORAL RATIO;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE TESTING; WATER LEVELS;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

DATA SET; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SUBFOSSIL; WATER LEVEL;

FINLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA;

EID: 79955463372     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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