Darwin Center programs and projects
2013: Chitinous aquatic organisms as proxies for lake surface temperature

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Darwin Center publications
van Hardenbroek, M., Heiri, O., Grey, J., Bodelier, P.L.E., Verbruggen, F., Lotter, A.F. (2009). Fossil chironomid δ13C as a proxy for past methanogenic contribution to benthic food webs in lakes? . Journal of Paleolimnology1-11.
Darwin Center authors: Bodelier P. L. E., van Hardenbroek M. R., Lotter A. F., Verbruggen F.

F. Verbruggen, O. Heiri, G.-J. Reichart, A.F. Lotter (2010). Chironomid d18O as a proxy for past lake water d18O: a Lateglacial record from Rotsee (Switzerland). Quaternary Science Reviews29: 2271-2279.
Darwin Center authors: Heiri O. M., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J., Verbruggen F.

F. Verbruggen, O. Heiri, G.-J. Reichart, J. W. De Leeuw, K. G. J. Nierop and A. F. Lotter (2010). Effects of chemical pretreatments on δ18O measurements, chemical composition, and morphology of chironomid head capsules. Journal of Paleolimnology43: 857-872.
Darwin Center authors: Heiri O. M., Lotter A. F., Reichart G. J., Verbruggen F.

Frederike Verbruggen (2010). Stable oxygen isotopes in fossil chironomids: development of a new proxy for past climate change.
Darwin Center authors: Verbruggen F.

Verbruggen, F, Heiri, O, Meriläinen JJ, Lotter AF (2011). Subfossil chironomid assemblages in deep, stratified European lakes: Relationships with temperature, trophic state and oxygen. Freshwater Biology56: 407-423.
Darwin Center authors: Heiri O. M., Lotter A. F., Verbruggen F.

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