Chironomids can be reliable proxies for Holocene temperatures. A comment on Velle et al. (2010)

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1495-1500

  Brooks, Stephen J ^a   Axford, Yarrow ^b   Heiri, Oliver ^c   Langdon, Peter G ^d   Larocque Tobler, Isabelle ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Institute of Plant Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

chironomids; Holocene; lake depth; lake trophic state; pH; temperature inference

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FLY; HOLOCENE; LAKE LEVEL; LATE GLACIAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PH; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TAXONOMY;

SCANDINAVIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84869995871     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612449757     Document Type: Article

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