Stacking of discontinuous regional palaeoclimate records: Chironomid-based summer temperatures from the Alpine region

Holocene

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 137-149

  Heiri, Oliver ^a   Ilyashuk, Boris ^b   Millet, Laurent ^c   Samartin, Stéphanie ^a   Lotter, André F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chironomids; Holocene; Lake sediment; Lateglacial; Palaeoclimate; Temperature reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; FLY; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS; SWITZERLAND;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84918576120     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683614556382     Document Type: Article

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