Lipid biomarkers and pertinent indices from aquatic environment record paleoclimate and paleoenvironment changes

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 123, Issue , 2015, Pages 180-192

  Ouyang, Xiaoguang ^a,b   Guo, Fen ^a,c   Bu, Hongmei ^d  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Sichuan Zhonghuanlixin Environmental Protection Consulting Co Ltd   (China)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Aquatic sediment; Lipid; Paleoclimate; Paleoenvironment; Water column

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; LIPIDS; NATURAL SCIENCES;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AQUATIC SEDIMENTS; PALEO-ENVIRONMENT; PALEOCLIMATES; PLANT SUCCESSIONS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; WATER COLUMNS;

CARBON;

ADAPTATION; ALLOCHTHON; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AUTOCHTHON; BIOMARKER; HUMIDITY; LIPID; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 84936935468     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.06.029     Document Type: Article

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