Palaeocladocerans as indicators of environmental, cultural and archaeological developments in Eifel maar lakes region (West Germany) during the Lateglacial and Holocene periods

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 676, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 203-221

  Kattel, Giri ^a,b   Sirocko, Frank ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Eifel lakes; Holocene; Lateglacial; Neolithic; Palaeocladocerans; Schalkenmehrener Maar; West Germany

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOINDICATOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CRUSTACEAN; CULTURAL HISTORY; EXTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LATE GLACIAL; NEOLITHIC; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBFOSSIL; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; WATER QUALITY;

EIFEL; GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

ACROPERUS HARPAE; ALONA AFFINIS; BETULA; CHYDORIDAE; DAPHNIA; EUBOSMINA COREGONI;

EID: 80255138326     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0872-4     Document Type: Article

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