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CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS OF ECOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 643-655Publisher
MAIK NAUKA/INTERPERIODICA/SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1134/S199542552006013X
Keywords
long-chain alkenones; haptophyte algae; meromictic lakes; water level; climate; paleolimnological reconstruction; 18S rRNA gene; metagenomics
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- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [19-05-00428, 18-45-243002 r_mol_a]
- Government of Krasnoyarsk Krai [18-45-243002 r_mol_a]
- Krasnoyarsk Krai Foundation of Science [18-45-243002 r_mol_a]
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Long-chain alkenones (LCAs)-lipides produced by some microalgae of the Haptophyta group in seas and continental water bodies-are promising paleomarkers of climate changes because they are well-preserved in bottom sediments. The hydrocarbon chain and the degree of unsaturation of double bonds of this class of lipides can vary depending on habitat conditions of their producers. For the first time, we have discovered LCAs in the bottom sediments of two saline meromictic lakes Shira and Uchum located in arid steppes of southern Siberia (the North Minusinsk Depression) and estimated the distribution of their total content, length, and the degree of unsaturation. The highly abundant population of producers of LCAs-haptophyte algae of the genus Isochrysis (Haptophyta)-is revealed in the water column of Lake Uchum. It is shown that the species composition of the haptophyte algae and composition of the LCAs in the lakes under study are similar to those in saline stratified lakes of North America (Saskatchewan, Canada) with a similar climate and salt composition. The abundance of the C37:4 alkenone in the bottom sediments in the last 100 years reflected the variations in lake salinity caused by the documented changes in the water level. In this way, it is shown that the LCAs may be used as a paleomarker of climate-driven changes in the water level of the saline lakes in southern Siberia.
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