Evaluation of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether proxies for reconstruction of the paleo-environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 61, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-56

  Wu, Xia ^a   Dong, Hailiang ^a   Zhang, Chuanlun L ^c,d   Liu, Xingqi ^e   Hou, Weiguo ^a   Zhang, Jing ^b   Jiang, Hongchen ^f  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tongji University   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; LACUSTRINE SYSTEMS; LAKE PRODUCTIVITIES; MEAN ANNUAL AIR TEMPERATURES; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; GLYCEROL; LAKES; LIPIDS; PH;

SEDIMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CORRELATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOLOCENE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PH; SEDIMENT CORE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 84880260323     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.06.002     Document Type: Article

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