Arctic lake ontogeny across multiple interglaciations

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 31, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-126

  Wilson, Cheryl R ^a   Michelutti, Neal ^a   Cooke, Colin A ^b   Briner, Jason P ^c   Wolfe, Alexander P ^b   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Diatoms; Interglacials; Lake ontogeny; Paleolimnology; Sediment geochemistry

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE WATER; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE; ARCTIC; BASE CATIONS; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGE; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HOLOCENES; ICE AGE; ICE COVER; INDIRECT EFFECTS; INTERGLACIAL PERIODS; INTERGLACIALS; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; ORGANIC SEDIMENTS; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PH DYNAMICS;

ALKALINITY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE; ISOTOPES; PH EFFECTS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

LAKES;

CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; DOMINANCE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HOLOCENE; ICE COVER; INTERGLACIAL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; ONTOGENY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PH; PLANKTON; SUCCESSION;

ARCTIC; BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; NUNAVUT;

AULACOSEIRA; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EUNOTIA;

EID: 84655176766     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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