Using a newly developed chironomid transfer function for reconstructing mean annual air temperature at Lake Potrok Aike, Patagonia, Argentina

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 24, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-210

  Massaferro, Julieta ^a   Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^b  

^a CENAC/APN ^*  (Argentina)

^b LimnoPaleoServ ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chironomidae; Lake sediment; Lateglacial glacial; Quantitative temperature reconstruction; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMIDAE; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATEGLACIAL-GLACIAL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TEMPERATURE RECONSTRUCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; SEDIMENTS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; INSECT; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ARGENTINA; LAGUNA POTROK AIKE; PATAGONIA; SANTA CRUZ [ARGENTINA];

CHIRONOMIDAE; CRICOTOPUS; PHAENOPSECTRA; POLYPEDILUM; SMITTIA;

EID: 84864066168     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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