ASSESSMENT OF FRESH-WATER DIATOMS AS QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS OF PAST CLIMATIC-CHANGE IN THE YUKON AND NORTHWEST-TERRITORIES, CANADA

• Main Authors: PIENITZ, R, SMOL, JP, BIRKS, HJB
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL 1995
• Subjects: DIATOMS; TEMPERATURE; CLIMATIC CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE PROXIES; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; WEIGHTED AVERAGING; YUKON; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE-ANALYSIS; PAPUA-NEW-GUINEA; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; PH RECONSTRUCTION; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; LAKES; GROWTH; ASSEMBLAGES; CALIBRATION; Arctic; Yukon; Northwest Territories; Canada; Tuktoyaktuk; Whitehorse
• Online Access: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/165814/

We identified, enumerated, and interpreted the diatom assemblages preserved in the surface sediments of 59 lakes located between Whitehorse in the Yukon and Tuktoyaktuk in the Northwest Territories (Canada). The lakes are distributed along a latitudinal gradient that includes several ecoclimatic zon...