Ecological responses of aquatic invertebrates to climate change over the past 400 years in a climatically ultra-sensitive lake in the niedere tauern alps (Austria)

Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 169-181

  Luoto, Tomi P ^a,b   Nevalainen, Liisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate change; Invertebrates; Lakes; Palaeolimnology; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITTLE ICE AGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CORE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; EASTERN ALPS; NIEDERE TAUERN;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLADOCERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872922366     PISSN: 18639135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2012/0341     Document Type: Article

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