Journal
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 397-404Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10933-009-9350-7
Keywords
Diatoms; Oxygen Isotopes; Les Echets; Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles
Funding
- Swedish Research Council
- Natural Environment Research Council [nigl010001] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [nigl010001] Funding Source: UKRI
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The sedimentary record from the paleolake at Les Echets in eastern France allowed a reconstruction of the lacustrine response to several abrupt climate shifts during the last glacial period referred to as Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) cycles. The high-resolution diatom stratigraphy has revealed distinct species turnover events and large fluctuations in stable oxygen isotope values in diatom frustules, as a response to DO climate variability. More or less identical species compositions became re-established during each DO stadial and interstadial phases, respectively. However, the relative abundance of the most dominant species within these assemblages varies and might indicate differences in climatic conditions. Interstadial phases are characterized by identical species successions. Transitions from stadial to interstadial conditions show a distinct Fragilaria-Cyclotella succession, which resembles the diatom regime shifts that have been recognized in some lakes in the Northern Hemisphere since the mid-nineteenth century.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available