Lake ecosystem dynamics and links to climate change inferred from a stable isotope and organic palaeorecord from a mountain lake in southwestern China (ca. 22.6-10.5 cal ka BP)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 132-137

  Cook, Charlotte G ^a   Leng, Melanie J ^b   Jones, Richard T ^a   Langdon, Peter G ^c   Zhang, Enlou ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Asian Monsoon; C N ratios; Carbon isotopes; Lake Palaeoproductivity; Late Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ASIAN MONSOON; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; C/N RATIO; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DEGLACIATIONS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MOUNTAIN LAKES; PALAEOPRODUCTIVITY; STABLE ISOTOPES; TIME-SCALES; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; LAKES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAST DEGLACIATION; MONSOON; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84855350536     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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