Journal article
Palaeocladocerans as indicators of environmental, cultural and archaeological developments in Eifel maar lakes region (West Germany) during the Lateglacial and Holocene periods
G Kattel, F Sirocko
Hydrobiologia | SPRINGER | Published : 2011
Abstract
The use of subfossil cladocerans is rare for understanding environmental, cultural and archaeological developments of lakes in Europe. In 2007, we collected a 12-m long sediment core from Lake Schalkenmehrener Maar (SMM), Germany for the analyses of subfossil cladocerans. Dating of core was based on tephrochronology, radiocarbon and pollen stratigraphy. Pollen-based chronostratigraphy indicated a decline of species richness and abundance of chydorids during the Lateglacial (ca. 14500 cal yr bp) with dominant cold preferring taxa Acroperus harpae Baird and Alona affinis Leydig. During the early Bölling, the abundance of cladocerans increased commensurate with growth of birch (Betula L.) and p..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was funded by a grant from the Research Center "Earth System Science" at the University of Mainz, Germany where GRK was a Visiting Scholar. We would like to thank the members of the ELSA team of the Geoscience Department of the University of Mainz, who have assisted for both field and laboratory work of this study. Particularly, we are very grateful to Saskia Rudert and Petra Sigl of the ELSA team for their untiring assistance for drawing figures. We are also thankful to four anonymous referees for their constructive comments plus some very useful remarks by guest editor of this special issue, Hilde Eggermont, all this have improved the quality of this article significantly.