Diatom-inferred wind activity at Lac du sommet, southern Québec, Canada: A multiproxy paleoclimate reconstruction based on diatoms, chironomids and pollen for the past 9500 years

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 925-938

  Hausmann, Sonja ^a,d   Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^b   Richard, Pierre J H ^c   Pienitz, Reinhard ^d   St Onge, Guillaume ^e   Fye, Falko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

chironomid inferred August temperature; chironomids; diatom inferred lake circulation; diatoms; grain size; Holocene; LIS; loss on ignition; pollen; shallow lake

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; DIATOM; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; FIRE HISTORY; FLY; GRAIN SIZE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PERIODICITY; POLLEN; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRAP; SHRUB; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CANADA; LAC DU SOMMET; QUEBEC [CANADA];

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 80051943001     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611400199     Document Type: Article

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