Enhanced algal abundance in northwest Ontario (Canada) lakes during the warmer early-to mid-Holocene period

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Enhanced algal abundance in northwest Ontario (Canada) lakes during the warmer early-to mid-Holocene period

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Enhanced algal abundance in northwest Ontario (Canada) lakes during the warmer early-to mid-Holocene period

Moumita Karmakar¹, Peter R. Leavitt², Brian F. Cumming¹•Institutions (2)

Queen's University¹, University of Regina²

01 Sep 2015-Quaternary Science Reviews (Elsevier Limited)-Vol. 123, pp 168-179

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated regional changes in primary producers in boreal headwater lakes during the warmer early-to-mid-Holocene (EMH) period, across the present-day boreal forest in northwest Ontario, a region that is adjacent to the prairie-forest ecotone.

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About: This article is published in Quaternary Science Reviews.The article was published on 2015-09-01. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Boreal & Eutrophication.

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Growth rates for freshwater ferromanganese concretions indicate regional climate change in eastern Canada at the Northgrippian-Meghalayan boundary.

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Simon Hayles¹, Tom A. Al¹, Jack Cornett¹, Alex Harrison¹, Jiujiang Zhao - Show less +1 more•Institutions (1)

University of Ottawa¹

27 Apr 2021-The Holocene

TL;DR: The results confirm that freshwater Fe–Mn concretions may yield important information about past climatic and environmental conditions and are consistent with inferences from previous research that warmer climate in the Northgrippian led to eutrophication in some lakes in eastern North America.

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Abstract: The existence of freshwater ferromanganese concretions has been known for decades, but we are not aware of a generally accepted explanation for their formation, and there has been little research i...

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...A study of lake levels over time in Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada demonstrated an extended period of aridity during the Northgrippian (Lewis et al., 2001), and lakes in Northern Ontario, Canada were affected by water level declines of more than 8 m during the same period (Laird and Cumming, 2008)....
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...…(Moss et al., 2011), as has been reported for the mid-Holocene for lakes in New York State, USA (Mullins, 1998) and Northern Ontario, Canada (Karmakar et al., 2015; Moos et al., 2009), and suboxic conditions which would in turn slow the rate of oxidative Fe and Mn precipitation and…...
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...Reductions in lake levels attributed to the warm dry conditions in the Northgrippian have also been reported from lakes in Ontario, Canada (Yu and McAndrews, 1994; Yu et al., 1997) and Québec, Canada (Lavoie and Richard, 2000), while sea level changes around Nova Scotia, Canada (Scott et al., 1995) are likewise attributed to a warm dry climate during the mid-Northgrippian....
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...Barium was also measured in concretions from Oneida Lake, New York, USA (Moore et al., 1980), Pb and Hg are reported for concretions from three lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada (Harriss and Troup, 1970), and partial rare earth element (REE) data are reported for concretions from Lake Shebandowan, Ontario, Canada (Calvert and Price, 1977)....
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...During the Northgrippian, increased lake productivity in a warmer drier climate, with a longer aquatic growing season, for example, may have contributed to eutrophication (Moss et al., 2011), as has been reported for the mid-Holocene for lakes in New York State, USA (Mullins, 1998) and Northern Ontario, Canada (Karmakar et al., 2015; Moos et al., 2009), and suboxic conditions which would in turn slow the rate of oxidative Fe and Mn precipitation and concretion growth....
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Complex responses of phototrophic communities to climate warming during the Holocene of northeastern Ontario, Canada:

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Brett G. Elmslie¹, Cale A.C. Gushulak¹, Maxime P. Boreux¹, Scott F. Lamoureux¹, Peter R. Leavitt², Peter R. Leavitt³, Brian F. Cumming¹ - Show less +3 more•Institutions (3)

Queen's University¹, Queen's University Belfast², University of Regina³

01 Feb 2020-The Holocene

TL;DR: In this article, historical changes in Holocene climate in northeastern Ontario were quantified using analyses of sedimentary pollen, diatoms, and pigments in a small boreal lake.

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Abstract: Historical changes in Holocene climate in northeastern Ontario were quantified using analyses of sedimentary pollen, diatoms, and pigments in a small boreal lake. Modern analog reconstructions of a...

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Aquatic ecosystem responses to environmental and climatic changes in NE China since the last deglaciation (∼17, 500 cal yr BP) tracked by diatom assemblages from Lake Moon

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Jie Chen¹, Jie Chen², Jianbao Liu¹, Jianbao Liu², Kathleen M. Rühland³, John P. Smol³, Xiaosen Zhang⁴, Zhiping Zhang¹, Zhiping Zhang², Aifeng Zhou¹, Zhongwei Shen¹, Fahu Chen², Fahu Chen¹ - Show less +9 more•Institutions (4)

Lanzhou University¹, Chinese Academy of Sciences², Queen's University³, Shanxi University⁴

15 Nov 2021-Quaternary Science Reviews

TL;DR: In this paper, a high-resolution, sedimentary diatom record covering the past ∼17,500 years was retrieved from Lake Moon, a small, hydrologically closed crater lake in the remote central part of the Great Khingan Mountain Range in NE China.

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Using visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) of lake sediments to estimate historical changes in cyanobacterial production: potential and challenges

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Elizabeth J. Favot¹, Kristopher R. Hadley, Andrew M. Paterson², Neal Michelutti¹, Susan B. Watson³, Arthur Zastepa³, Neil J. Hutchinson, Rolf D. Vinebrooke⁴, John P. Smol¹ - Show less +5 more•Institutions (4)

Queen's University¹, Ontario Ministry of the Environment², Environment Canada³, University of Alberta⁴

04 Jul 2020-Journal of Paleolimnology

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate application of spectroscopy-based models to infer historical trends in cyanobacterial abundance from lake sediment cores using an amendment series (n) of a sediment matrix spiked with increasing amounts of mixed Cyanobacterial culture from 0 to 50 parts per thousand (‰), taxonomically diagnostic carotenoids were measured using visible near-infrared reflectance spectrograms (VNIRS) and conventional but more costly and time-consuming high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).

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Abstract: Cyanobacterial blooms are increasing worldwide and have negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems and the services they provide to human societies. A lack of long-term environmental monitoring data, however, has prevented the development of a baseline perspective against which drivers of the increasing frequency and severity of cyanobacterial blooms can be identified. In this study, we evaluate application of spectroscopy-based models to infer historical trends in cyanobacterial abundance from lake sediment cores. Using an amendment series (n = 15) of a sediment matrix spiked with increasing amounts of mixed cyanobacterial culture from 0 to 50 parts per thousand (‰), taxonomically diagnostic carotenoids were measured using visible near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (VNIRS) and conventional but more costly and time-consuming high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). A partial least squares regression model was developed to correlate amendment series VNIR spectra to ‰ of added cyanobacteria. Despite challenges in differentiating carotenoid pigments because of overlapping absorption peaks, applications of the resulting 2-component model (r2 = 0.93, RMSEP = 0.23‰) to sediment cores from four Ontario lakes yielded temporal trends that were significantly correlated with downcore HPLC measures of cyanobacterial pigments in three out of four cases. Although our method is simplistic and may be improved in the future with more complex algorithms employing derivative analysis, we present our results as a possible stepping-stone towards spectral reconstruction of cyanobacterial production. Our study provides proof-of-concept that refinement of a method applying VNIRS to detect cyanobacterial carotenoids in lake sediments has the potential to be an important, rapid and non-destructive assessment tool for research and management of cyanobacterial blooms.

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Postglacial hydroclimate in the southern interior of British Columbia (Canada): Lake ecosystem response to the Holocene Thermal Maximum and drivers of mid-to-late Holocene climate variability

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G R Mushet, Eduard G. Reinhardt, Ryan Whitehouse, Brian F. Cumming

01 Jan 2022-Quaternary Science Reviews

TL;DR: In this article , a multi-proxy paleolimnological record spanning 11,000 years from a small lake in the semi-arid southern Interior Plateau (SIP) of British Columbia is presented.

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