Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: A review

Journal of Paleolimnology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 513-535

  Catalan, Jordi ^a,b   Pla Rabés, Sergi ^a,b   Wolfe, Alexander P ^c   Smol, John P ^d   Rühland, Kathleen M ^d   Anderson, N John ^e   Kopáček, Jiři ^f   Stuchlík, Evžen ^g   Schmidt, Roland ^h   Koinig, Karin A ⁱ   Camarero, Lluís ^b   Flower, Roger J ^j   Heiri, Oliver ^k   Kamenik, Christian ^k   Korhola, Atte ^l   Leavitt, Peter R ^m   Psenner, Roland ⁱ   Renberg, Ingemar ⁿ  

^a CREAF   (Spain)

^b CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic   (Czech Republic)

^g CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^h ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^j UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

ⁿ UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

Acidification; Alpine lakes; Arctic lakes; Climate change; High altitude; High latitude; Long range atmospheric pollution; Nitrogen cascade; Remote lake palaeolimnology

Indexed keywords

ACID DEPOSITION; ACIDIFICATION; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GLACIAL LAKE; GLOBAL CHANGE; LATITUDE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; NITROGEN; PALEOLIMNOLOGY;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84875590771     PISSN: 09212728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-013-9681-2     Document Type: Article

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