Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 4: Zoological IndicatorsJohn P. Smol, H.J. Birks, William M. Last Paleolimnology is a rapidly developing science that is now being used to study a suite of environmental and ecological problems. This volume is the fourth handbook in the Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research book series. The first volume (Last & Smol, 2001a) examined the acquisition and archiving of sediment cores, chronological techniques, and large-scale basin analysis methods. Volume 2 (Last & Smol, 2001b) focused on physical and chemical methods. Volume 3 (Smol et al. , 2001), along with this book, summarize the many biological methods and techniques that are available to study long-term environmental changeusing information preserved in sedimentary profiles. A subsequent volume (Birks et al. , in preparation) will deal with statistical and data handling procedures. It is our intent that these books will provide sufficient detail and breadth to be useful handbooks for both seasoned practitioners as well as newcomers to the area of paleolimnology. These books will also hopefully be useful to non-paleolimnologists (e. g. , limnologists, archeologists, palynologists, geographers, geologists, etc. ) who continue to hear and read about pal- limnology, but have little chance to explore the vast and sometimes difficult to access journal-based reference material for this rapidly expanding field. Although the chapters in these volumes target mainly lacustrine settings, many of the techniques described can also be readily applied to fluvial, glacial, marine, estuarine, and peatland environments. This current volume focuses on zoological indicators preserved in lake sediments, whilst Volume 3 focused on terrestrial, algal, and siliceous indicators. |
Contents
Cladocera and other branchiopod crustaceans A Korhola M Rautio | 5 |
Chironomidae and related Diptera I R Walker 43 | 42 |
Coleoptera and Trichoptera S A Elias | 67 |
Oribatidmites T Solhøy | 81 |
Bryozoanstatoblasts D R Francis | 105 |
Ostracoda J A Holmes | 125 |
Other editions - View all
Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 4: Zoological ... John P. Smol,William M. Last,H.J. Birks No preview available - 2001 |
Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 4: Zoological ... John P. Smol,H.J. Birks,William M. Last No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
abundance Acari acidification analysis aquatic basin beetles Behan-Pelletier benthic Bosmina branchiopod bryozoan caddisfly Canada carapace carbonate Change Using Lake Chaoboridae chironomid chydorid Cladocera climatic change cores Cristatella crustacean Deckker deposits diatoms Diptera distribution ecology Ectoprocta Elias environments eutrophication fauna fish fossil fossil assemblage freshwater bryozoan Frey H. J. B. Birks habitats head capsules Hofmann Holocene Hydrobiol Hydrobiologia identification inference insect fossils interglacial interpretation invertebrate isotope J. P. Smol Korhola Krivolutsky lacustrine lake sediments larvae late-glacial Limnol littoral Lotter method microfossils midge mites molluscs Nilssen North America organic Oribatei oribatid oribatid mites ostracod shells ostracods otoliths oxygen isotope Palaeoecol Palaeogeogr paleoecology paleoenvironmental Paleolim paleolimnology Patterson planktonic Pleistocene Plumatella quantitative Quaternary ratio reconstruction record region salinity sample Sandøy sclerites sedimentary sediments sieve Smith Solhøy species specimens statoblasts studies subfossil taxa taxonomic techniques temperature terrestrial Tracking Environmental Change trophic valves volume Walker Zool zooplankton