Cladocera response to Late Glacial to Early Holocene climate change in a South Carpathian mountain lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 676, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 223-235

  Korponai, János ^a,b   Magyari, E Katalin ^c   Buczkó, Krisztina ^d   Iepure, Sanda ^e,f   Namiotko, Tadeusz ^g   Czakó, Dániel ^h   Kövér, Csilla ^b   Braun, Mihály ⁱ  

^a West Transdanubian District Water Authority   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^e BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^f Speleological Institute Emil Racovitza   (Romania)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^h KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chydorids; Cladocera remains; Climate change; Mountain lake; Romania

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CRUSTACEAN; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NEW SPECIES; OXYGEN ISOTOPE RATIO; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CARPATHIANS; ROMANIA;

ALONA AFFINIS; ALONA RECTANGULA; CHYDORIDAE; CHYDORUS SPHAERICUS; CLADOCERA; CLITELLARIA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA EPHIPPIA; DAPHNIA LONGISPINA; DAPHNIIDAE;

EID: 80155213323     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0881-3     Document Type: Article

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