The distribution and abundance of chironomids in high-latitude Eurasian lakes with respect to temperature and continentality: Development and application of new chironomid-based climate-inference models in northern Russia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 1122-1141

  Self, A E ^a,b   Brooks, S J ^a   Birks, H J B ^b,c,d   Nazarova, L ^e   Porinchu, D ^f   Odland, A ^g   Yang, H ^b   Jones, V J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Climate change; Continentality; Palaeolimnology; Russia; Species responses; Transfer function; WA PLS

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDS; CONTINENTALITY; PALAEOLIMNOLOGY; RUSSIA; SPECIES RESPONSES; WA-PLS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; INFERENCE ENGINES; LAKES; LANDFORMS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ABUNDANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; FLY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT CORE; TIMESCALE; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 79955722750     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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