Testate amoeba functional traits and their use in paleoecology

K Marcisz, VEJ Jassey, A Kosakyan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Fire activity and hydrological dynamics in the past 5700 years reconstructed from Sphagnum peatlands along the oceanic–continental climatic gradient in northern …

K Marcisz, M Gałka, P Pietrala… - Quaternary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Fire is a critical component of many ecosystems and, as predicted by various climate
models, fire activity may increase significantly in the following years due to climate change …

Tracing lake mixing and oxygenation regime using the Fe/Mn ratio in varved sediments: 2000 year-long record of human-induced changes from Lake Żabińskie (NE …

M Żarczyński, A Wacnik, W Tylmann - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
This study explores the long-term drivers of changes in lake mixing regime and the causes
of lacustrine anoxia in the 2000 year-long, varved sediment record from Lake Żabińskie in …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution record of Holocene primary productivity and water-column mixing from the varved sediments of Lake Żabińskie, Poland

PD Zander, M Żarczyński, H Vogel, W Tylmann… - Science of the total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Eutrophication and anoxia are increasing in lakes worldwide. However, our understanding
of variations of primary productivity and anoxia in lakes over thousands of years is limited …

The recent deposition of laminated sediments in highly eutrophic Lake Kierskie, western Poland: 1 year pilot study of limnological monitoring and sediment traps

K Apolinarska, K Pleskot, A Pełechata… - Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Accurate lake sediment-derived palaeoenvironmental reconstructions require in-depth
knowledge on sediment record formation processes. In order to understand formation of …

Impact of historical land use changes on lacustrine sedimentation recorded in varved sediments of Lake Jaczno, northeastern Poland

AI Poraj-Górska, MJ Żarczyński, A Ahrens, D Enters… - Catena, 2017 - Elsevier
Varved lake sediments provide an invaluable archive of natural and human-induced
environmental changes. We present results of sedimentological, geochemical and pollen …

Limnological responses to environmental changes during the last 3,000 years revealed from a varved sequence of Lake Lubińskie (western Poland)

A Bonk, N Piotrowska, M Żarczyński, D Enters… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Sediments from Lake Lubińskie, western Poland, were investigated to determine
the limnological responses to environmental changes during the last 3,000 years. To identify …

Tracking fire activity and post-fire limnological responses using the varved sedimentary sequence of Lake Jaczno, Poland

A Bonk, M Słowiński, M Żarczyński, P Oliński… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Long-term paleofire perspectives provide key information on natural and human-derived
land cover changes. The last few millennia are crucial to understanding the future of wildfire …

Holocene history of human impacts inferred from annually laminated sediments in Lake Szurpiły, northeast Poland

M Kinder, W Tylmann, I Bubak, M Fiłoc… - Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Annually laminated lake sediments provide high-resolution and accurate timescales for
reliable paleoenvironmental reconstructions. We investigated human activity in a low-human …

Grain-size distribution and structural characteristics of varved sediments from Lake Żabińskie (Northeastern Poland)

M Żarczyński, J Szmańda, W Tylmann - Quaternary, 2019 - mdpi.com
Typically, the description of varve microfacies is based on microscopic sedimentary
structures, while standard grain-size analysis is commonly applied with lower resolution …