Twentieth-century warming revives the world's northernmost lake

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1003-1006

  Perren, Bianca B ^a   Wolfe, Alexander P ^b   Cooke, Colin A ^c   Kjær, Kurt H ^d   Mazzucchi, David ^e   Steig, Eric J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; BIOLOGICAL CHANGES; CHRYSOPHYTES; CLIMATE WARMING; ECOLOGICAL CHANGES; GREENLAND; MICROFOSSILS; REACTIVE NITROGEN; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

ALGAE; CLIMATE CHANGE; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DIATOM; GLOBAL WARMING; GREEN ALGA; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MICROFOSSIL; NITROGEN; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHRYSOPHYCEAE;

EID: 84868696701     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33621.1     Document Type: Article

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