An evaluation of the influence of water depth and river inflow on quantitative Cladocera-based temperature and lake level inferences in a shallow boreal lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 676, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 143-154

  Luoto, Tomi P ^a,b   Nevalainen, Liisa ^b   Kultti, Seija ^a   Sarmaja Korjonen, Kaarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fossil cladocerans; Intralake dataset; Palaeolimnology; Sampling site; Water depth; Within lake variability

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROBIOLOGY; INFLOW; LAKE LEVEL; LOTIC ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; RIVER FLOW; SAMPLING; STREAMFLOW; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER DEPTH;

FINLAND;

CLADOCERA;

EID: 80255138404     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0801-6     Document Type: Article

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