Holocene climate inferred from biological (Diptera: Chironomidae) analyses in a Southampton Island (Nunavut, Canada) lake

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Rolland, Nicolas, Larocque, Isabelle, Francus, Pierre, Pienitz, Reinhard, Laperrière, Laurence
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2008
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Arctic; Canada; Foxe Basin; Nunavut; Southampton Island; Climate change; Global warming
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683607086761; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683607086761

Concerns about the effects of global warming on Arctic environments have stimulated multidisciplinary research into the history of their long-term climatic and environmental variability to improve future predictions of climate in these remote areas. Here we present the first palaeolimnological study...