Intralake training set of fossil Cladocera for paleohydrological inferences: Evidence for multicentennial drought during the Medieval Climate Anomaly

Ecohydrology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 834-840

  Nevalainen, Liisa ^a   Luoto, Tomi P ^b  

^a City of Helsinki   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Finland; Fossil Cladocera; Lake level; Paleoclimatology; Paleolimnology; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

CLADOCERA; FINLAND; LAKE LEVELS; PALEOCLIMATOLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; REPAIR; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; WATER LEVELS;

LAKES;

CRUSTACEAN; DROUGHT; FOSSIL; LAKE LEVEL; MEDIEVAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTION; WATER TABLE;

FINLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA;

EID: 84870858441     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.275     Document Type: Article

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