Aquatic ecosystem responses to Holocene climate change and biome development in boreal, central Asia

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 119-131

  Mackay, Anson W ^a   Bezrukova, Elena V ^b   Leng, Melanie J ^c   Meaney, Miriam ^a   Nunes, Ana ^a   Piotrowska, Natalia ^d   Self, Angela ^e   Shchetnikov, Alexander ^f   Shilland, Ewan ^a   Tarasov, Pavel ^g   Wang, Luo ^h   White, Dustin ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ENERGY SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d SILESIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^e DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biome; Chironomid; Diatom; Eastern Sayan mountains; Lake ontogeny; Multiproxy; Organic isotope; Pollen; Redundancy analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CHIRONOMID; DIATOM; EASTERN SAYAN MOUNTAINS; LAKE ONTOGENIES; MULTI PROXIES; POLLEN; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEBRIS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INCIDENT SOLAR RADIATION; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; REDUNDANCY; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

LAKES;

ACIDIFICATION; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; BIOME; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEGLACIATION; DIATOM; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; INSECT; LITTLE ICE AGE; MEADOW; ONTOGENY; PALYNOLOGY; PERMAFROST; TROPHIC LEVEL; VASCULAR PLANT;

ASIA;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE; PICEA; PICEA OBOVATA; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84859726546     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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