Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climatic change in lakes from the northern Urals, arctic Russia

• Main Authors: Nadia Solovieva, Vivienne J. Jones, Larisa Nazarova, Stephen J. Brooks, H. J. B. Birks, John-arvid Grytnes, Ingemar Renberg, Vasily Ponomarev
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Bol’shezemel’skaya Tundra; permafrost; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.483.393; http://www.biosoil.ru/tendipes/nazar2.pdf

Palaeolimnology, Spheroidal carbonaceous particles The recent sediments from two deep arctic lakes, Mitrofanovskoe and Vanuk-ty, situated in the permafrost belt within the Bol’shezemel’skaya Tundra in the northern Ural region, were studied for diatoms, chiron-omids, spheroidal carbonaceous particles and stable lead isotopes. The magnitudes and rates-of-change in diatom and chironomid assemblages were numerically estimated. Instrumental climate records were used to assess statistically the amount of variance in diatom and chironomid data explained by temperature. August and September air temperatures have a statistically significant effect on diatom composition at both lakes. At Mitrofanovskoe Lake, major compositional changes in diatom and chironomid assemblages occurred at the turn of the 20th century and might be related to the regional increase in temperature. Chironomid-inferred air temperature also increased by approximately 1 C since the early 1900s. At both lakes diatom compositional changes, coincident with the increase in June and September temperatures, also occurred in the late 1960s. These compositional changes are correlated with the increase in diatom production, sediment