Foraminiferal faunal evidence of twentieth-century Barents Sea warming

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 527-537

  Wilson, L J ^a   Hald, Morten ^a   Godtliebsen, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

benthic foraminifera; climate change; late Holocene; Norway; palaeoceanography; stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUATION; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBAL WARMING; LATITUDE; LITTLE ICE AGE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWAY;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 79957656015     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610385718     Document Type: Article

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