Challenges in using siliceous subfossils as a tool for inferring past water level and hydroperiod in Everglades marshes

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-66

  Sanchez, Christopher ^a   Gaiser, Evelyn E ^a   Saunders, Colin J ^b   Wachnicka, Anna H ^a   Oehm, Nicholas ^a   Craft, Christopher ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Diatoms; Everglades; Hydrology; Paleoecology; Phytoliths; Sponges

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; DIATOM; DRAINAGE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FORECASTING METHOD; LITTLE ICE AGE; MARSH; MORPHOTYPE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PHYTOLITH; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOLUTION; SPONGE; SUBFOSSIL; TIMESCALE; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW; WATER LEVEL; WATER MANAGEMENT; WETLAND;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84872600063     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9624-3     Document Type: Article

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