Carsten Meyer-Jacob, Andrew L. Labaj, Andrew M. Paterson, Daniel Layton-Matthews, John P. Smol
{"title":"Impacts of acid deposition and lake browning on long-term organic carbon storage in Canadian northern forest lakes","authors":"Carsten Meyer-Jacob, Andrew L. Labaj, Andrew M. Paterson, Daniel Layton-Matthews, John P. Smol","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00307-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00307-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Atmospheric acid deposition disrupted terrestrial-aquatic carbon cycling by drastically lowering dissolved organic carbon (DOC) loads in many lakes across NE North America and northern Europe during the 20th century. However, little is known about how acid deposition has altered the role of lakes as long-term carbon sinks. We present contemporary (<i>n</i> = 80) organic carbon accumulation rates (OCAR) and OCAR trends over the past ~ 150 years (<i>n</i> = 8), and other supporting infrared spectroscopic, isotopic, and elemental geochemical proxies, for lakes in and near Sudbury, Ontario, Canada – an area heavily affected by acid deposition from smelting activities in the late-19th and 20th centuries. Contemporary OCAR varied between 4.9 and 35.3 g m<sup>–2</sup> yr<sup>–1</sup> among study lakes (mean: 13.5±6.4 g m<sup>–2</sup> yr<sup>–1</sup>). Sediment-inferred trends in lake-water DOC showed a strong response in DOC loadings to the effects of acid deposition during the past century, which is corroborated by increasing observed lake-water DOC concentrations (i.e., lake browning) since the 1980s. Despite these changes in DOC, as well as changes in water acidity, only lakes with direct physical watershed disturbances showed short-lived increases in OCAR, whereas OCAR changed little in remote Sudbury-region lakes with minimal direct human disturbances (mean OCAR: 14.3 ± 8.7 g m<sup>–2</sup> yr<sup>–1</sup>). This is in stark contrast to many other northern forest lakes with minimal direct catchment disturbances that experienced significant increases in OCAR during the 20th century. Our results caution that lake browning may not be a dominant driver behind the widespread increase in organic C burial in northern lakes during recovery from acid deposition in recent decades.</p>","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138630441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sida Fu, Jie Li, Patrick Rioual, Jingkang Wang, Luo Wang
{"title":"A new method to remove biogenic silica from lake sediments by chemical dissolution coupled with sonication","authors":"Sida Fu, Jie Li, Patrick Rioual, Jingkang Wang, Luo Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00305-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00305-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The grain-size distribution of lake sediments is a crucial proxy for paleoclimate reconstruction, as it is closely related to the transport dynamics of clastic materials from the surrounding land. However, the presence of biogenic silica, particularly remains of diatom frustules, can significantly bias the grain-size distribution of lake-sediment samples. To remove this component, an alkaline solution, usually consisting of sodium carbonate, is commonly used during sample preparation. However, the efficiency of this method has not been fully verified under the microscope and with statistical tests. This study aims to assess the efficiency of removing diatoms from sediment samples under different concentrations and treatment durations of Na<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> solution, and with and without sonication. The removal efficiency was assessed using microscope examination. Two sets of sediment samples from Huguang Maar Lake with high contents of diatoms but different species compositions were used. Results show that increasing sodium carbonate concentration and treatment duration improved the removal efficiency. A treatment with 2 mol L<sup>−1</sup> Na<sub>2</sub>CO<sub>3</sub> solution coupled with ultrasound vibrations for 4 h was found to be the most effective method for removing biogenic silica from the lake-sediment samples that were investigated. Differences in the removal efficiency between the two samples might be due to the different dominant diatom species in the samples. The new method provides a more reliable and effective procedure for removing diatoms from lake-sediment samples.</p>","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi, Enrica Steiner, Stefanie von Fumetti, Oliver Heiri
{"title":"Aquatic invertebrate mandibles and sclerotized remains in Quaternary lake sediments","authors":"Colin J. Courtney-Mustaphi, Enrica Steiner, Stefanie von Fumetti, Oliver Heiri","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00302-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00302-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Subfossil remains of aquatic invertebrates found in lacustrine sediments are useful paleoenvironmental indicators. Strongly scleroticized chitinous body parts from the exoskeleton or exuviae from invertebrates are often the most resistant to degradation during syn- and post-depositional processes. Invertebrate mandibles and body parts that superficially resemble mandibles, such as claw-like appendages and pygopodia, are frequently found in sieved Quaternary lacustrine, palustrine, and deltaic sediments. Guides, catalogs and atlases have been published that are well suited for the identification of subfossil remains for several invertebrate groups, such as chironomids, cladocerans, and ostracods, among others. However, aquatic invertebrate remains of several ecologically important invertebrate groups continue to be underused in paleoenvironmental studies, in part, because there are few visual keys or other documentation sources (e.g. descriptions, catalogs or atlases) that increase awareness and facilitate identification. Here we present sets of digital photomicrographs of pre-identified aquatic invertebrate specimens collected from streams, lakes and ponds that have been chemically cleared to preserve structures that are observed in subfossil remains in sieved sediment samples, commonly the > 100 μm size fractions. In addition, we present examples of these structures from Quaternary lake-sediment samples and cite the dispersed literature that demonstrate that these remains are preserved and remain identifiable in the fossil record. We document mandibles from several taxonomic groups that include Crustacea: Amphipoda, Isopoda, Ostracoda, and Notostraca; and Insecta orders: Coleoptera, Diptera, Ephemeroptera, Hemiptera, Odonata, Lepidoptera, Megaloptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera. The compilation of microphotographs also includes pygopodia and claw appendages of Plecoptera and Trichoptera, with additional images of other common invertebrate mouthpart and head remains. We describe several types of fossilizing structures that are, to our knowledge, not previously described in the paleoecological literature (e.g. mandibles of amphipods or plecopterans) but also show that some structures are considerably more variable than expected based on available descriptions, such as the mandibles of Ephemeroptera or Trichoptera, and that these can potentially be separated into different morphotypes useful for identification of subfossil material. We also discuss the potential of analyzing and interpreting the additional remains together with the remains of more commonly analyzed invertebrate groups (e.g. Chironomidae) to contribute to paleoenvironmental interpretations, which will allow assessments of functional groups (e.g. predators, shredders, grazers) or habitat types (e.g. littoral, profundal or lotic environments) that aquatic invertebrate remains originate from.</p>","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elizabeth Bunin, Chengjun Zhang, Gonen Sharon, Steffen Mischke
{"title":"Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the Jordan River Dureijat archeological site reveal subtle late Pleistocene water-level changes at Lake Hula, Jordan Valley, Israel","authors":"Elizabeth Bunin, Chengjun Zhang, Gonen Sharon, Steffen Mischke","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00301-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00301-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sedimentary records of environmental conditions retrieved from archeological sites provide valuable insight into the milieux of ancient humans and context to understand societal and cultural changes. At Jordan River Dureijat, an open-air site in Israel’s Hula Valley documenting the entire Epipaleolithic period as well as the Early Neolithic, sediments exposed on the walls of the excavation pit reveal a sequence of lacustrine deposits accumulated continuously between c. 21.1 and 11.3 cal ka BP near the southeast margin of Paleolake Hula. Through sediment-grain-size, geochemical, and paleontological analyses, we describe the nature of the Paleolake Hula from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the start of the Holocene. Until c. 17.2 cal ka BP, Paleolake Hula existed as a relatively large and well-buffered waterbody. A rapid and substantial drawdown of the lake occurred at 17.2 cal ka BP, followed by more frequent changes in the position of the shoreline in a smaller and shallower lake, resulting in the deposition of alternating near-shore and deeper lacustrine facies. Since the LGM, seven beds of structureless, silty sediments preserve archeological artifacts belonging to three Epipaleolithic cultures as well as the Early Neolithic pre-pottery Neolithic A culture. These sediments were deposited during phases of low lake level during which times humans waded into the shallow part of the lake, leaving behind stone and bone tools such as bladelets, lunates and burins, fishing hooks, line weights and net sinkers. Using radiocarbon-dated charcoal and a Bayesian statistical model, we produced a chronostratigraphic model for the archeological site, which enables the comparison of proxy paleoclimate records produced from this site’s sediments with regional archives as well as with global trends and changes in the Northern Hemisphere climate. Periods of low lake stands are correlated with the end of the LGM, Heinrich Event 1, and the beginning of the Younger Dryas Stadial. High water stands occurred contemporaneously with the peak of the LGM and during the Bølling–Allerød interstadial. This new water-level record from Lake Hula confirms that lake-level changes here broadly paralleled those of the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee during the late Pleistocene, highlighting the importance of northern water sources to the overall water balance of the lakes along the Dead Sea Transform.</p>","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138517853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Marchetti Maroneze, Rosa Maria Menendez, Daniela Rabello Ferreira, Diego Guimarães Florencio Pujoni, Paulo Alves de Lima Ferreira, Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira, Paulina Maria Maia-Barbosa
{"title":"Paleolimnological evidence of the Inverted Trophic Cascade Hypothesis in a Neotropical lake","authors":"Daniel Marchetti Maroneze, Rosa Maria Menendez, Daniela Rabello Ferreira, Diego Guimarães Florencio Pujoni, Paulo Alves de Lima Ferreira, Rubens Cesar Lopes Figueira, Paulina Maria Maia-Barbosa","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00306-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00306-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135136926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric Kjellmark, Lisa Park Boush, Amy Myrbo, Mary Jane Berman, Perry Gnivecki
{"title":"Paleoecological history of Eleuthera Island, the Bahamas, based on pollen and charcoal analyses from two lakes","authors":"Eric Kjellmark, Lisa Park Boush, Amy Myrbo, Mary Jane Berman, Perry Gnivecki","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00303-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00303-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135774513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brendan M. Llew-Williams, Francine M. G. McCarthy, Andrea M. Krueger, Nicholas L. Riddick, Michael D. MacKinnon, Krysten M. Lafond, R. Timothy Patterson, Nawaf A. Nasser, Martin J. Head, Michael F. J. Pisaric, Kevin W. Turner, Joseph I. Boyce, Uwe Brand
{"title":"Quantifying conditions required for varve formation in meromictic Crawford Lake, Ontario, Canada: important process for delimiting the Anthropocene epoch","authors":"Brendan M. Llew-Williams, Francine M. G. McCarthy, Andrea M. Krueger, Nicholas L. Riddick, Michael D. MacKinnon, Krysten M. Lafond, R. Timothy Patterson, Nawaf A. Nasser, Martin J. Head, Michael F. J. Pisaric, Kevin W. Turner, Joseph I. Boyce, Uwe Brand","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00304-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00304-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135820148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diatom evidence of ecological change in a deep subtropical reservoir (southeastern China) over the past 60 years","authors":"Mengna Liao, Huihao Huang, Kai Li, Jian Ni","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00300-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00300-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135803240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. A. T. Wilkins, K. M. Rühland, A. M. Paterson, J. P. Smol
{"title":"Long-term effects of a 1940s fertilization experiment on diatoms from Cache Lake (Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada)","authors":"C. A. T. Wilkins, K. M. Rühland, A. M. Paterson, J. P. Smol","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00299-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00299-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135924042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Tamalavage, P. V. van Hengstum, S. Feakins, Shawna N. Little, S. Coats, T. S. Winkler, R. Sullivan, P. Louchouarn, J. Donnelly, Nancy A. Albury
{"title":"Middle to late Holocene paleolimnology of a sinkhole lake in the northern Bahamas and its linkage to regional climate variability","authors":"A. Tamalavage, P. V. van Hengstum, S. Feakins, Shawna N. Little, S. Coats, T. S. Winkler, R. Sullivan, P. Louchouarn, J. Donnelly, Nancy A. Albury","doi":"10.1007/s10933-023-00291-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00291-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16658,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Paleolimnology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41445442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}