Journal
JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 29-44Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013550811858
Keywords
Holocene palaeoecology; palaeolimnology; Lake Ladoga region; Karelia; NW Russia; pollen; diatoms; weighted averages regression; human impact
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The post-glacial history of Lake Pieni-Kuuppalanlampi, western Lake Ladoga region, was studied by means of stratigraphic pollen and diatom analyses. Diatoms were analysed to track the isolation history of the basin and the limnological effects of the early land-use phases indicated by pollen analysis. Chrysophycean stomatocysts and Isoetes spores were also employed in the limnological reconstructions. Sediment dating was provided by six conventional radiocarbon dates. The lower part of the 370-cm long sediment sequence represents early Holocene, large lake conditions: the (freshwater) Yoldia and Ancylus stages of the Baltic basin, with a short-term lagoonal or isolation phase at the end of Yoldia. The basin was isolated due to Ancylus lake regression at 9785 cal B.P. For the small-lake sequence (0-250 cm) we used diatom inferences (WA-method) for hindcasting water chemistry. The post-isolation limnology of Pieni-Kuuppalanlampi reflects the development of vegetation on its small hill-top catchment. In its early development, the lake was mesotrophic, but became more acidic (pH about 6) and oligotrophic after the decline of temperate hardwood trees and the spread of spruce to the area after around 5000 B.P. The lake ecosystem appears to have reacted sensitively to agricultural land-use in the catchment from AD 400-800 onwards: inferred total phosphorus levels and pH both rise during these periods.
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