Responses of diatoms to the Younger Dryas climatic reversal in a South Carpathian mountain lake (Romania)

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 417-431

  Buczkó, Krisztina ^a   Magyari, Eniko ^b   Hübener, Thomas ^c   Braun, Mihály ^d   Bálint, Miklós ^e,f   Tóth, Mónika ^b   Lotter, A F ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^f BABE BOLYAI UNIVERSITY   (Romania)

^g UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diatoms; Mountain lake; Retezat Mountains; Seasonality; Transfer function; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DIATOM; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; EPILIMNION; FLY; FOREST COVER; HOLOCENE; HUMIC ACID; ICE COVER; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LAKE WATER; LATE GLACIAL; OUTWASH; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PH; POLLEN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SILICA; STEPPE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; TUNDRA; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CARPATHIANS;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE; STAUROFORMA; STAUROSIRA;

EID: 84863537864     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9618-1     Document Type: Article

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