Midges as quantitative temperature indicator species: Lessons for palaeoecology

G Velle, KP Brodersen, HJB Birks… - The …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Calibration data sets give a unique opportunity to establish patterns of biological existence
and their statistical associations with environmental variables. By use of calibration data …

Changes in fossil chironomid remains along a depth gradient: evidence for common faunal thresholds within lakes

S Engels, LC Cwynar - Hydrobiologia, 2011 - Springer
Many environmental variables that are important for the development of chironomid larvae
(such as water temperature, oxygen availability, and food quantity) are related to water …

Hydrological change in lakes inferred from midge assemblages through use of an intralake calibration set

TP Luoto - Ecological Monographs, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Midge (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) assemblages were examined in surface sediment
samples from Lake Pieni‐Kauro and the Saavanjoki River, eastern Finland, using their …

Intra-lake heterogeneity of sedimentary cladoceran (Crustacea) assemblages forced by local hydrology

L Nevalainen - Hydrobiologia, 2011 - Springer
Intra-lake variation of fossil Cladocera (Crustacea) assemblages in 31 surface sediment
samples in Lake Pieni-Kauro and River Saavanjoki, eastern Finland, was examined with an …

How representative are subfossil assemblages of Chironomidae and common benthic invertebrates for the living fauna of Lake De Waay, the Netherlands?

M Van Hardenbroek, O Heiri, MF Wilhelm, AF Lotter - Aquatic Sciences, 2011 - Springer
The distribution of benthic invertebrates and their subfossil remains was examined within the
basin of De Waay, a dimictic, eutrophic lake in the Netherlands. We focused on …

[HTML][HTML] Re-evaluating coring sites in paleolimnological studies of a large, deep lake based on chironomid assemblage representativeness

W Luo, W Han, Z Ni, Q Lin, W Sun, Y Wang, Y You… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
In paleolimnology, ecological trajectories of biological communities are typically
reconstructed using a sediment core from the deepest part of a lake. However, the …

Intra-lake patterns of aquatic insect and mite remains

TP Luoto - Journal of Paleolimnology, 2012 - Springer
Surface sediment samples from Lake Moaralmsee in the Austrian Alps were examined for
fossil remains of aquatic insects and mites. This study investigated the influence of water …

Causes of spatial distribution of subfossil diatom and chironomid assemblages in surface sediments of a remote deep island lake

PM Raposeiro, A Saez, S Giralt, AC Costa… - Hydrobiologia, 2018 - Springer
Until recently, the distribution of diatom and chironomid assemblages and their attributes
(species richness/diversity) in relation to water depth and sedimentary environments have …

Climatic variability during the last millennium in Western Iceland from lake sediment records

N Holmes, PG Langdon, CJ Caseldine… - The …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this research was to create a decadal-scale terrestrial quantitative palaeoclimate
record for NW Iceland from lake sediments for the last millennium. Geochemical, stable …

Within-lake variability of subfossil chironomid assemblage in a large, deep subtropical lake (Lugu lake, Southwest China)

E Zhang, Y Cao, PG Langdon, Q Wang… - Journal of …, 2013 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The present study analysed the distribution of subfossil chironomid larval head caspules in a
suite of surface sediment samples from a large deep subtropical lake, ie Lugu lake, located …