A multi-proxy sediment record of late Holocene and recent climate change from a lake near Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

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Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-480

  Jiang, Shan ^a   Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Sun, Jing ^b   Yuan, Linxi ^a   Sun, Liguang ^a   Wang, Yuhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOACCUMULATION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WARMING;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79959623442     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2010.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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