Response of chironomids to late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change in the eastern Bolivian Andes

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 485-501

  Williams, Joseph J ^a,c   Brooks, Stephen J ^b   Gosling, William D ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deglaciation; Holocene dry event; Midges; Moisture balance; Pre Columbian humans; Salinity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CHARCOAL; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LARVA; MOISTURE CONTENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SALINITY; SUBFOSSIL; TAXONOMY; WOODLAND;

ANDES; BOLIVIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMINAE; CHIRONOMUS SP.; ORTHOCLADIINAE; TANYPODINAE;

EID: 84866446205     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9626-1     Document Type: Article

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