Late Holocene environmental change in arctic western Siberia

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 150-165

  Self, Angela E ^a   Jones, Vivienne J ^b   Brooks, Steve J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Climate; Continentality; Holocene; Putor; Russia

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CATCHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLY; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SUBFOSSIL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PUTORANA PLATEAU; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84918550961     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614556387     Document Type: Article

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