Evidence of global pollution and recent environmental change in Kamchatka, Russia

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 82-90

  Jones, V J ^a   Rose, N L ^a   Self, A E ^b   Solovieva, N ^a   Yang, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chironomid; Diatom; Kamchatka; Mercury; Pollution; Spheroidal carbonaceous particles

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EROSION; FUELS; LAKES; MERCURY (METAL); RUNOFF;

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINATION; CHIRONOMID; DIATOM; FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION; KAMCHATKA; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SPHEROIDAL CARBONACEOUS PARTICLES;

POLLUTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BENCHMARKING; CATCHMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIATOM; FOSSIL FUEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; LEAD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84946545733     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.02.005     Document Type: Article

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