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 …

Organic geochemical proxies of paleoceanographic, paleolimnologic, and paleoclimatic processes

PA Meyers - Organic geochemistry, 1997 - Elsevier
Organic matter constitutes a minor fraction of marine and freshwater sediments, yet its
important contribution to the sedimentary record can be used to reconstruct marine and …

[BOOK][B] Paleolimnology: the history and evolution of lake systems

AS Cohen - 2003 - books.google.com
This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …

Sedimentary pigments

PR Leavitt, DA Hodgson - … change using lake sediments: Terrestrial, algal …, 2001 - Springer
Fossil pigments often preserve in lake sediments long after the morphological remains of
most algae and bacteria are lost. In principle, analyses of sedimentary carotenoids …

The paleolimnologist's guide to compound-specific stable isotope analysis–An introduction to principles and applications of CSIA for Quaternary lake sediments

J Holtvoeth, JH Whiteside, S Engels, FS Freitas… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The stable isotope composition of key chemical elements for life on Earth (eg, carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur) tracks changes in fluxes and turnover of these elements …

Organic matter accumulation records in lake sediments

PA Meyers, R Ishiwatari - Physics and chemistry of lakes, 1995 - Springer
The organic-matter content of lake sediments provides information that is important to
studies of lacustrine paleoenvironments, the history of climate change, and the effects of …

Seasonal ecosystem variability in remote mountain lakes: implications for detecting climatic signals in sediment records

J Catalan, M Ventura, A Brancelj, I Granados… - Journal of …, 2002 - Springer
Weather variation and climate fluctuations are the main sources of ecosystem variability in
remote mountain lakes. Here we describe the main patterns of seasonal variability in the …

Quantification of chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b and pheopigments a in lake sediments through deconvolution of bulk UV–VIS absorption spectra

A Sanchini, M Grosjean - Journal of paleolimnology, 2020 - Springer
Assessments of aquatic paleoproduction and pigment preservation require accurate
identification and quantification of sedimentary chlorophylls. Using chromatographic …

[PDF][PDF] Factors influencing the variability of pigments in the surface sediments of mountain lakes.

T Buchaca, J Catalan - Freshwater biology, 2007 - researchgate.net
Surface sediment biofilm samples from 82 Pyrenean lakes were analysed for marker
pigment composition using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). 2. Variability in …

Factors affecting water chemistry of alpine lakes

A Marchetto, R Mosello, R Psenner, G Bendetta… - Aquatic Sciences, 1995 - Springer
During a four-year study (1988–1991), 413 lakes in the Central Alps (Italy, Switzerland and
Austria) were investigated to quantify their acidification. The ionic content of the lakes was …