A review of molecular organic proxies for examining modern and ancient lacustrine environments

IS Castañeda, S Schouten - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Molecular organic geochemical proxies are increasingly being utilized to reconstruct past
environmental conditions as new tools continue to be discovered and developed. To date …

The 8k event: cause and consequences of a major Holocene abrupt climate change

RB Alley, AM Ágústsdóttir - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
A prominent, abrupt climate event about 8200 years ago brought generally cold and dry
conditions to broad northern-hemisphere regions especially in wintertime, in response to a …

Global spread of hypoxia in freshwater ecosystems during the last three centuries is caused by rising local human pressure

JP Jenny, P Francus, A Normandeau… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The spread of hypoxia is a threat to aquatic ecosystem functions and services as well as to
biodiversity. However, sparse long‐term monitoring of lake ecosystems has prevented …

Applications of organic geochemistry to paleolimnological reconstructions: a summary of examples from the Laurentian Great Lakes

PA Meyers - Organic geochemistry, 2003 - Elsevier
The organic matter content of lake sediments contains information that helps to reconstruct
past environmental conditions, evaluate histories of climate change, and assess impacts of …

The 8200 cal BP abrupt environmental change and the Neolithic transition: A Mediterranean perspective

JF Berger, J Guilaine - Quaternary international, 2009 - Elsevier
A major environmental and societal event struck the Mediterranean basin during the 9th
millennium cal BP. A sudden and major climatic crisis occurred in the Northern Hemisphere …

The long history of Cannabis and its cultivation by the Romans in central Italy, shown by pollen records from Lago Albano and Lago di Nemi

AM Mercuri, CA Accorsi, M Bandini Mazzanti - Vegetation History and …, 2002 - Springer
The cores from the Albano and Nemi lakes, near Rome, were studied within the European
Union funded PALICLAS project and provided high resolution records of the Late-glacial …

Role of settling particles on mercury methylation in the oxic water column of freshwater systems

E Gascón Díez, JL Loizeau, C Cosio… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
As the methylation of inorganic mercury to neurotoxic methylmercury has been attributed to
the activity of anaerobic bacteria, the formation of methylmercury in the oxic water column of …

The Holocene climatic evolution of Mediterranean Italy: A review of the continental geological data

C Giraudi, M Magny, G Zanchetta… - The …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
We present a synthesis of geological, stratigraphic, geomorphological and stable isotope
data collected from continental archives to highlight the environmental and climatic …

Guidelines for Rock–Eval analysis of recent marine sediments

F Baudin, JR Disnar, A Aboussou, F Savignac - Organic Geochemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Rock–Eval pyrolysis, a widely used petroleum screening technique developed primarily for
ancient sedimentary rocks and kerogens, has been increasingly applied to the …

Anaerobic mercury methylators inhabit sinking particles of oxic water columns

E Capo, C Cosio, EG Díez, JL Loizeau, E Mendes… - Water research, 2023 - Elsevier
Increased concentration of mercury, particularly methylmercury, in the environment is a
worldwide concern because of its toxicity in severely exposed humans. Although the …