Climate-induced changes in lake ecosystem structure inferred from coupled neo- and paleoecological approaches

Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2155-2164

  Saros, Jasmine E ^a   Stone, Jeffery R ^a,b   Pederson, Gregory T ^c   Slemmons, Krista E H ^a   Spanbauer, Trisha ^b   Schliep, Anna ^d   Cahl, Douglas ^d   Williamson, Craig E ^e   Engstrom, Daniel R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d University of Maine   (United States)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ST CROIX WATERSHED RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Cyclotella; Lake stratification; Mixing depth; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; LAKE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NITRATE; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WAVE; TAXONOMY; THERMAL STRUCTURE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84868227548     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2218.1     Document Type: Article

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