Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) succession in Zabieniec bog and its palaeo-lake (central Poland) through the Late Weichselian and Holocene

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 307, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 150-167

  Płóciennik, Mateusz ^a   Self, Angela ^b   Birks, H John B ^c,d,e   Brooks, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Chironomidae; Holocene; July temperature; Late Glacial; Palaeoclimate; Paludification; Poland; Zabieniec

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOG; CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DIVERGENCE; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; HABITAT USE; HOLOCENE; INTERSTADIAL; LAKE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SUCCESSION;

EUROPE;

CHIRONOMIDAE; DIPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 79960397854     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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