Lipid biomarker signatures in a hypersaline lake on Isabel Island (Eastern Pacific) as a proxy for past rainfall anomaly (1942-2006AD)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 350-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 49-61

  Romero Viana, Lidia ^a   Kienel, Ulrike ^a,b   Sachse, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diol; ENSO; Lipid biomarkers; Mexico; Paleoclimate; Salinity; Tetrahymanol

Indexed keywords

ALGA; BACTERIUM; BIOMARKER; CALIBRATION; CILIATE; CRATER LAKE; DATA SET; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LIPID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RAINFALL; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); SANTA ISABEL; SOLOMON ISLANDS [(ISG) MELANESIA]; SOLOMON ISLANDS [SOLOMON ISLANDS (ISG)];

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 84864571651     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.011     Document Type: Article

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