Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record
Summary 1. Monitoring of the ecosystem of Lake Mývatn, Iceland, since 1975 has revealed extreme fluctuations in important food web components, such as chironomids and cladocerans, with amplitudes of several orders of magnitude and a period of 5–8 years. This study uses sediment cores from the lake t...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02518.x 2024-06-02T08:09:26+00:00 Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record HAUPTFLEISCH, ULF EINARSSON, ÁRNI ANDERSEN, THORBJøRN J. NEWTON, ANTHONY GARDARSSON, ARNTHOR 2010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02518.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2427.2010.02518.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02518.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Freshwater Biology volume 57, issue 10, page 1986-1997 ISSN 0046-5070 1365-2427 journal-article 2010 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02518.x 2024-05-03T11:02:10Z Summary 1. Monitoring of the ecosystem of Lake Mývatn, Iceland, since 1975 has revealed extreme fluctuations in important food web components, such as chironomids and cladocerans, with amplitudes of several orders of magnitude and a period of 5–8 years. This study uses sediment cores from the lake to examine if the food web fluctuations appear in the microfossil record of the sediment. 2. Dating was achieved by means of a combination of 137 Cs and volcanic tephra and was fine‐tuned by wiggle‐matching of chironomid microfossil and monitoring data. 3. Cladocera exuviae and chironomid egg capsules in the uppermost 34 cm of sediment were compared with the monitoring record that consisted of 30 years of window trap catches of flying chironomids and a 16‐year record of chydorid Cladocera caught in activity traps. 4. The observed chironomid and cladoceran population fluctuations were reflected in the sediment record of chironomid eggs and of the exuviae of three of seven cladocerans: Alonella nana , Alona rectangula and Eurycercus lamellatus , which also had the most extreme fluctuations in the monitoring data (3–4 orders of magnitude). Chydorus sphaericus , and to some extent Alona quadrangularis and Acroperus harpae , showed regular fluctuations in the core that the monitoring did not reveal. Density of subfossil chironomid eggs correlated positively with that of larval head capsules but not with other microfossils. 5. This study shows a reasonably good correspondence between the fossil records of chironomids and cladocerans on the one hand and biomonitoring data on the other. The results pave the way for an extension of the food web history to much earlier time intervals of the ecosystem, allowing the study of long‐term variation in the food web dynamics, including the impact of climatic variation and other external forcing. The results also indicate the usefulness of chironomid egg capsules in palaeolimnological studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Mývatn Wiley Online Library Mývatn ENVELOPE(-16.985,-16.985,65.600,65.600) Freshwater Biology 57 10 1986 1997 |
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Summary 1. Monitoring of the ecosystem of Lake Mývatn, Iceland, since 1975 has revealed extreme fluctuations in important food web components, such as chironomids and cladocerans, with amplitudes of several orders of magnitude and a period of 5–8 years. This study uses sediment cores from the lake to examine if the food web fluctuations appear in the microfossil record of the sediment. 2. Dating was achieved by means of a combination of 137 Cs and volcanic tephra and was fine‐tuned by wiggle‐matching of chironomid microfossil and monitoring data. 3. Cladocera exuviae and chironomid egg capsules in the uppermost 34 cm of sediment were compared with the monitoring record that consisted of 30 years of window trap catches of flying chironomids and a 16‐year record of chydorid Cladocera caught in activity traps. 4. The observed chironomid and cladoceran population fluctuations were reflected in the sediment record of chironomid eggs and of the exuviae of three of seven cladocerans: Alonella nana , Alona rectangula and Eurycercus lamellatus , which also had the most extreme fluctuations in the monitoring data (3–4 orders of magnitude). Chydorus sphaericus , and to some extent Alona quadrangularis and Acroperus harpae , showed regular fluctuations in the core that the monitoring did not reveal. Density of subfossil chironomid eggs correlated positively with that of larval head capsules but not with other microfossils. 5. This study shows a reasonably good correspondence between the fossil records of chironomids and cladocerans on the one hand and biomonitoring data on the other. The results pave the way for an extension of the food web history to much earlier time intervals of the ecosystem, allowing the study of long‐term variation in the food web dynamics, including the impact of climatic variation and other external forcing. The results also indicate the usefulness of chironomid egg capsules in palaeolimnological studies. |
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HAUPTFLEISCH, ULF EINARSSON, ÁRNI ANDERSEN, THORBJøRN J. NEWTON, ANTHONY GARDARSSON, ARNTHOR Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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Matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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matching thirty years of ecosystem monitoring with a high resolution microfossil record |
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