Climate-driven changes in water level: A decadal scale multi-proxy study recording the 8.2-ka event and ecosystem responses in Lake Sarup (Denmark)

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 267-285

  Bjerring, Rikke ^a   Olsen, Jesper ^b   Jeppesen, Erik ^a,g,h   Buchardt, Bjørn ^c   Heinemeier, Jan ^a   McGowan, Suzanne ^d   Leavitt, Peter R ^e   Enevold, Renée ^f   Odgaard, Bent V ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^f Moesgård Museum   (Denmark)

^g GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^h Sino Danish Centre for Education and Research   (China)

Author keywords

8.2 ka event; Cladocera; Climate change; Holocene; Lake level; Pigments; Stable isotopes; Varved lake sediment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EROSION; HOLOCENE; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; ICE CORE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LAKE LEVEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PIGMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; STABLE ISOTOPE; VARVE; WATER LEVEL;

DENMARK;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; CLADOCERA; CRYPTOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; NYMPHAEACEAE;

EID: 84872662911     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-012-9673-7     Document Type: Article

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