Diatoms as indicators of hydrologic and climatic change in saline lakes

The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 186-208

  Fritz, Sheri C ^a   Cumming, Brian F ^b   Gasse, Françoise ^c   Laird, Kathleen R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c CEREGE   (France)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511763175.011     Document Type: Chapter

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