A multiproxy palaeolimnological study of climate and nutrient impacts on Esthwaite Water, England over the past 1200 years

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-118

  Dong, Xuhui ^a,b   Bennion, Helen ^a   Battarbee, Richard W ^a   Sayer, Carl D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

'Little Ice Age'; 'Medieval Warm Period'; climate change; Esthwaite Water; nutrients; palaeolimnology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEDIEVAL WARM PERIOD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; TIMESCALE;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; ESTHWAITE WATER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84055224152     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611409780     Document Type: Article

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