Zooplankton as indicators in lakes: a scientific-based plea for including zooplankton in the ecological quality assessment of lakes according to the European Water …

E Jeppesen, P Nõges, TA Davidson, J Haberman… - Hydrobiologia, 2011 - Springer
With the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), the member states
have to classify the ecological status of surface waters following standardised procedures. It …

Human deforestation outweighed climate as factors affecting Yellow River floods and erosion on the Chinese Loess Plateau since the 10th century

X Yan, J Liu, KM Rühland, H Dong, J He… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing proportions of the global population are exposed to floods, including many living
in the Yellow River floodplain. Since records were first kept in 602 BCE, there have been∼ …

Establishing reliable minimum count sizes for cladoceran subfossils sampled from lake sediments

J Kurek, JB Korosi, A Jeziorski, JP Smol - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2010 - Springer
The effects of low counts on assemblage inferences in paleolimnological investigations
have been examined for many biological proxies, but not yet for Cladocera. Established …

Midges as quantitative temperature indicator species: Lessons for palaeoecology

G Velle, KP Brodersen, HJB Birks… - The …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Calibration data sets give a unique opportunity to establish patterns of biological existence
and their statistical associations with environmental variables. By use of calibration data …

[HTML][HTML] Modern distribution of Cladocera in lakes of northern China and western Mongolia and its environmental implications

W Wang, L Xiang, Y Li, Q Suo, X Song, Y Zhang… - Fundamental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cladocerans are widely distributed in aquatic ecosystems and are sensitive to
environmental changes; hence, they are commonly used to trace ecological changes in …

A century of bottom‐up‐and top‐down driven changes on a lake planktonic food web: A paleoecological and paleoisotopic study of Lake Annecy, France

ME Perga, M Desmet, D Enters… - Limnology and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstructed the changes in the planktonic food web of an oligotrophic subalpine lake
over the past century, combining paleoecological methods and historical monitoring data …

Local forcings affect lake zooplankton vulnerability and response to climate warming

B Alric, JP Jenny, V Berthon, F Arnaud, C Pignol… - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
While considerable insights on the ecological consequences of climate change have been
gained from studies conducted on remote lakes, little has been done on lakes under direct …

Relationship between cladoceran (Crustacea) functional diversity and lake trophic gradients

L Nevalainen, TP Luoto - Functional Ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Functional diversity (FD) as a biodiversity measure has an explicit role in ecosystem
functioning because the effects of environmental changes in ecosystems are determined by …

Spatio‐temporal distribution of sedimentary Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in relation to climate

L Nevalainen, TP Luoto, S Kultti… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Spatial and temporal variations in the composition of freshwater invertebrate
assemblages may be useful indicators of past climate change and help us to predict species …

Congruence of water column, contemporary and pre‐industrial sediment cladoceran assemblages in 85 Canadian lakes of contrasting human impact levels

C Paquette, I Gregory‐Eaves, BE Beisner - Freshwater Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crustacean zooplankton occupy a key position as primary consumers within lake food webs,
acting as early indicators of wider ecosystem shifts that can cascade to higher trophic levels …