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Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water

  • The first comprehensive compilation of Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstruction for the Carpathian region including several Central and Eastern European studies
  • Presents a wide range of proxies: diatoms, pollen, macrofossils, pigments, cladoceran remains, chironomids, chaoborids, stable isotopes, geochemistry in multi-proxy studies

Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology (DIHY, volume 208)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Review of dated Late Quaternary palaeolimnological records in the Carpathian Region, east-central Europe

    • Krisztina Buczkó, Enikő Katalin Magyari, Peter Bitušík, Agnieszka Wacnik
    Pages 3-28
  3. Palaeolimnology of the last crater lake in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains: a multiproxy study of Holocene hydrological changes

    • Enikő Magyari, Krisztina Buczkó, Gusztáv Jakab, Mihály Braun, Zoltán Pál, Dávid Karátson et al.
    Pages 29-63
  4. Subfossil diatoms and chironomids along an altitudinal gradient in the High Tatra Mountain lakes: a multi-proxy record of past environmental trends

    • Peter Bitušík, Vladimír Kubovčík, Elena Štefková, Peter G. Appleby, Marek Svitok
    Pages 65-85
  5. Palaeoclimatic signals and anthropogenic disturbances from the peatbog at Nagybárkány (North Hungary)

    • Gusztáv Jakab, Péter Majkut, Imola Juhász, Sándor Gulyás, Pál Sümegi, Tünde Törőcsik
    Pages 87-106
  6. Late Pleistocene-early Holocene transition recorded in the sediments of a former shallow lake in the Czech Republic

    • Tomáš Bešta, Jitka Šafránková, Miloslav Pouzar, Jan Novák, Kateřina Nováková
    Pages 107-120
  7. A multi-proxy Late-glacial palaeoenvironmental record from Lake Bled, Slovenia

    • Maja Andrič, Julieta Massaferro, Ueli Eicher, Brigitta Ammann, Markus Christian Leuenberger, Andrej Martinčič et al.
    Pages 121-141
  8. Reconstruction of human influence during the last two centuries on two small oxbow lakes near Warsaw (Poland)

    • Luiza Galbarczyk-Gąsiorowska, Michał Gąsiorowski, Krystyna Szeroczyńska
    Pages 173-183
  9. Multiproxy study of anthropogenic and climatic changes in the last two millennia from a small mire in central Poland

    • Mariusz Lamentowicz, Zofia Balwierz, Jacek Forysiak, Mateusz Płóciennik, Piotr Kittel, Marek Kloss et al.
    Pages 213-230
  10. Sedimentary multiproxy response to hydroclimatic variability in Lagunillo del Tejo (Spain)

    • Lidia Romero-Viana, M. Rosa Miracle, Charo López-Blanco, Estela Cuna, Gloria Vilaclara, Jordi Garcia-Orellana et al.
    Pages 231-245
  11. Diatom-inferred trophic history of IJsselmeer (The Netherlands)

    • Holger Cremer, Frans P. M. Bunnik, Emiliya P. Kirilova, Eddy H. R. R. Lammens, André F. Lotter
    Pages 279-287
  12. Palaeolimnology of Lake Hess (Patagonia, Argentina): multi-proxy analyses of short sediment cores

    • Piero Guilizzoni, Julieta Massaferro, Andrea Lami, Eduardo Luis Piovano, Sergio Ribeiro Guevara, Stella Maris Formica et al.
    Pages 289-302
  13. A multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction of trophic state reference conditions for stratified carbonate-rich lakes in northern Germany

    • Thomas Hübener, Sven Adler, Petra Werner, Manuela Schult, Helmut Erlenkeuser, Hinrich Meyer et al.
    Pages 303-327

About this book

Palaeolimnology is one of the most rapidly developing fields of limnology. The primary objective of this volume is to present new palaeolimnological findings from eastern and central Europe. Although this area has sometimes received less attention than other areas of Europe, the lakes and mires, coupled with the variability in landscape and the local differences in climate, provide unique opportunity for studying palaeolimnology. The volume starts with a review on late Quaternary records form the Carpathian region, followed by new results on the history of a crater lake, Lake Saint Ana, glacial lakes in the Tatra Mountains and Lake Bled in Slovenia. In addition, the various papers provide new insights on the development of lakes and bogs during the late glacial and Holocene, using a wide range of palaeolimnological proxies, including diatoms, pollen, macrofossils, pigments, cladoceran remains, chironomids, chaoborids, stable isotopes and geochemistry. The motivation for collecting recent knowledge derives from the recognition of the importance, and applicability of palaeolimnological tools to help in defining "reference conditions" as designated within the Water Framework Directives and estimating influence of global climate change on surface waters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Botany, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

    Krisztina Buczkó

  • West-Transdanubian District Water Authority, Keszthely, Hungary

    János Korponai

  • Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, University of West Hungary, Szombathely, Hungary

    János Korponai

  • Department of Limnology, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary

    Judit Padisák

  • U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, USA

    Scott W. Starratt

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