Dead or alive: sediment DNA archives as tools for tracking aquatic evolution and adaptation

M Ellegaard, MRJ Clokie, T Czypionka… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
DNA can be preserved in marine and freshwater sediments both in bulk sediment and in
intact, viable resting stages. Here, we assess the potential for combined use of ancient …

A review of diatom δ18O in palaeoceanography

GEA Swann, MJ Leng - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Measurements of diatom oxygen isotopes (δ18Odiatom) hold the potential to provide an
important additional source of palaeoceanographic information in regions depleted in …

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

M Stewart, R Clark-Wilson, PS Breeze, K Janulis… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor
resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non …

Diatoms as indicators of water level change in freshwater lakes

JA Wolin, HC Duthie - … for the environmental and earth sciences, 1999 - books.google.com
Water level changes result from a variety of geological, biological or climatic processes.
Many of these changes occur over long periods of time; however, some may be rapid or …

Worldwide retention of nutrient silicon by river damming: From sparse data set to global estimate

T Maavara, HH Dürr… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Damming of rivers represents a major anthropogenic perturbation of the hydrological cycle,
with the potential to profoundly modify the availability of nutrient silicon (Si) in streams, lakes …

Combining limnological and palaeolimnological data to disentangle the effects of nutrient pollution and climate change on lake ecosystems: problems and potential

RW Battarbee, NJ Anderson, H Bennion… - Freshwater …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
As long‐term observational lake records continue to lengthen, the historical overlap with
lake sediment records grows, providing increasing opportunities for placing the …

Tracking eutrophication in Taihu Lake using the diatom record: potential and problems

X Dong, H Bennion, R Battarbee, X Yang… - Journal of …, 2008 - Springer
Taihu Lake is the third largest freshwater lake in China and has been experiencing
eutrophication problems for several decades. Diatoms in short sediment cores from three …

Shifts in the source and composition of dissolved organic matter in Southwest Greenland lakes along a regional hydro‐climatic gradient

CL Osburn, NJ Anderson, CA Stedmon… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) concentration and quality were examined from Arctic lakes
located in three clusters across south‐west (SW) Greenland, covering the regional climatic …

Lipid geochemistry of lake sediments from semi-arid Spain: relationships with source inputs and environmental factors

EJ Pearson, P Farrimond, S Juggins - Organic Geochemistry, 2007 - Elsevier
The lipid geochemistry of lake sediments can provide information on past environmental
change. Detailed interpretation is, however, often hampered by a limited understanding of …

A 2000 year record of climate variations reconstructed from Haukadalsvatn, West Iceland

Á Geirsdóttir, GH Miller, T Thordarson… - Journal of …, 2009 - Springer
The sediment fill of Haukadalsvatn, a lake in northwest Iceland, preserves a record of
environmental change since deglaciation, 13 ka ago. The rapid sedimentation rate over the …