Northern Russian chironomid-based modern summer temperature data set and inference models

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 134, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-25

  Nazarova, Larisa ^a,b   Self, Angela E ^c   Brooks, Stephen J ^c   van Hardenbroek, Maarten ^d   Herzschuh, Ulrike ^a   Diekmann, Bernhard ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arctic Russia; Biogeography; Chironomidae; Ecology; Temperature; Transfer function

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; LAKES; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ARCTIC RUSSIA; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CHIRONOMIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; INFERENCE MODELS; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ARTHROPOD; DATA SET; PALEOCLIMATE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBFOSSIL; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSFER FUNCTION; ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION;

ARCTIC; KAMCHATKA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 84947028083     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.11.015     Document Type: Article

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