Reliability estimation of reconstructions on the basis of bioindication methods unification (diatom analysis)

Abstract

The work is devoted to the unification of bioindication techniques based on diatom analysis. A new method for calculating the numerical values of pH and temperature in time was proposed. The calculation of the saprobity index (S) is used as a methodological principle of unification. Approbation of the method was carried out for lakes from different landscape and climatic zones of the European part of Russia and the results of paleoreconstructions were found to be reliable and informative.