| Title | Diatom-inferred depth models in 8 Canadian boreal lakes: inferred changes in the benthic:planktonic depth boundary and implications for assessment of past droughts |
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| Author | Laird, K R; Kingsbury, M V; Lewis, C F M ; Cumming, B F |
| Source | Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 30, 2011 p. 1201-1217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.02.009 |
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| Year | 2011 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 20100460 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Manitoba |
| NTS | 52E/07; 52E/08; 52E/09; 52E/10; 52E/15; 52E/16; 52F; 52G/05; 52G/06; 52G/11; 52G/12; 52G/13; 52G/14; 52J/01; 52J/02; 52J/03; 52J/04 |
| Area | Kenora; Dryden; Ignace; Little Raleigh Lake; Troutfly Lake; Gall Lake; Atlantic Lake; Ela Lake; Dixie Lake; Worth Lake; Meekin Lake |
| Lat/Long WENS | -95.0000 -91.0000 50.5000 49.2500 |
| Subjects | hydrogeology; paleontology; Nature and Environment; lake water depths; lake water; lake sediments; benthos; diatoms; faunal distribution; Winnipeg River Drainage Basin; Cenozoic; Quaternary |
| Illustrations | location maps; diagrams; tables |
| Program | Climate Change Geoscience |
| Released | 2011 05 01 |
| Abstract | Assessment of past drought in boreal regions, a region predicted to be strongly affected by climate warming, can provide insights into future availability of water. However, limited instrumental data
and paleoclimatic data are available for this assessment. To address this lack of data in the boreal region of northwest Ontario, a regional study of lakes in the Winnipeg River Drainage Basin was initiated. Diatominferred (D-I) depth models were
developed based on surface samples collected along a depth gradient within 8 small boreal lakes.Weighted-averaging and modern analog approaches provided robust withinlake depth models for each of the study lakes, with bootstrapped r2 values ranging
from 0.90 to 0.98, and root-mean-squared-errors of prediction (RMSEP) between 1.1 and 2.5 m. Large differences in the estimated depth optima for three representative, but common diatom species across our 8 study lakes suggested that within-lake
calibration datasets are more appropriate for inferring past drought based in depth models than a regional multi-lake calibration dataset, and that light and related variables are controlling factors governing the maximum depth of benthic taxa. A
down-core application of the D-I depth models on a near-shore core from Meekin Lake, retrieved near the present-day ecotone between the benthic and planktonic diatom assemblages indicated highly similar trends in inferred depth (r = 0.96). The models
have significant correlations with other metrics of changes in depth including diatom species richness (r = 0.74 - 0.78) and evenness (r = 0.76 - 0.8), thereby allowing a check on the strength and direction of the depth inferences down-core.
Near-shore cores located near the benthic: planktonic transition is a sensitive region that can provide estimates of past droughts in lakes where such inferences have been difficult to estimate. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 288006 |
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