Paleoecological and paleoclimatic reconstructions for the Karelian Isthmus based on the study of subfossil cladocerans from Lake Medvedevskoe (Northwest Russia)
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Paleoecological and paleoclimatic reconstructions for the Karelian Isthmus based on the study of subfossil cladocerans from Lake Medvedevskoe (Northwest Russia)

L.A. Frolovaa*, A.G. Ibragimovaa**, D.A. Subettob***, L.B. Nazarovac****, L.S. Syrykh d*****

aKazan Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Russia

bNorthern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, 185003 Russia

cUniversity of Potsdam, Potsdam, 14469 Germany

dHerzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, 191186 Russia

E-mail: *Larissa.Frolova@kpfu.ru, **Ais5_ibragimova@mail.ru, ***Subetto@mail.ru, ****larisa.nazarova@awi.de, *****Lyudmilalsd@gmail.com

Received March 2, 2017

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Abstract

The purpose of our study is to reconstruct the climatic and environmental changes that took place over the Holocene in Northwest Russia. The results of the palaeobiological analysis of cladoceran community of Lake Medvedevskoe (Karelian Isthmus, located between the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea and Lake Ladoga, Northwest Russia) have been discussed. In the sediments of Lake Medvedevskoe, we have identified 38 cladoceran taxa that belong to 7 families: Bosminidae, Holopedidae, Chydoridae, Daphnidae, Polyphemidae, Macrotricidae, and Sididae. It has been revealed that Bosmina (Eubosmina) longispina and Alonella nana are the most common for subfossil Cladocera community of the lake.  Palearctic and Holarctic species are dominant. Both pelagic and littoral taxa are well represented in the lake. The down-core changes in cladoceran community allowed to identify five statistically significant zones. It has been discovered that the taxonomic richness of biological communities is low at the bottom of the core with the dominance of typical northern species and increases towards the sediment surface alongside with the rise of organic content in sediments. Based on the shifts in the taxonomic composition of cladoceran community, we have concluded upon the trophic status of the lake and climate changes. The obtained data have been compared with the results of the chironomid analysis that was performed earlier.

Keywords: paleoclimatic reconstructions, subfossil Cladocera, Lake Medvedevskoe, Karelian Isthmus

Acknowledgments. The work is performed according to the Russian Government Program of Competitive Growth of Kazan Federal University and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects nos. 18-05-00406, 17-34-50129, and 18-35-00328).

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Fig. 1. The physico-geographical location of Lake Medvedevskoe.

Fig. 2. The stratigraphic distribution of the main cladoceran taxa in the sediment core from Lake Medvedevskoe.

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For citation: Frolova L.A., Ibragimova A.G., Subetto D.A., Nazarova L.B., Syrykh L.S. Paleoecological and paleoclimatic reconstructions for the Karelian Isthmus based on the study of subfossil cladocerans from Lake Medvedevskoe (Northwest Russia). Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Estestvennye Nauki, 2018, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 93–110. (In Russian)


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