Taphonomic issues pose fundamental challenges for Quaternary scientists to recover
environmental signals from biological proxies and make accurate inferences of past …

Diatom dissolution in surface sediment samples from two regional lake datasets in the
Northern Great Plains (NGP; n= 64) and West Greenland (n= 40) is assessed using a …

Environmental reconstructions are limited by the quality of the original data from which they
are derived. In situations where microfossils are poorly preserved problems may arise, both …

Lakes in arid and semi-arid regions respond to climatic change through shifts in lake water
volume and ionic concentration. Because diatom distribution is highly correlated with lake …

Diatom preservation can be a major taphonomic issue in many lakes but is often
unrecognised and its impacts on qualitative and quantitative inferences (such as productivity …

Fossil diatoms were analysed from a 10.3 m core from Harris Lake, Cypress Hills,
Saskatchewan, and a diatom-salinity transfer function was used to construct a history of …

Coastal ecosystems around the world are constantly changing in response to interacting
shifts in climate and land and water use by expanding human populations. The development …

Taphonomic processes alter diatom assemblages in sediments, thus potentially negatively
impacting paleoclimate records at various rates across space, time, and taxa. However …

Detrended canonical coreespondence analysis (DCCA) was used to examine the
relationships between diatom species distributions and environmental variables from 62 …

Diatom dissolution in saline lakes represents an important obstacle to the quantitative
reconstruction of water chemistry and climate from lake sediment archives. This problem is …