Paleolimnology IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Paleolimnology, held at Ossiach, Carinthia, Austria

Front Matter....Pages I-X
A biographical sketch of David G. Frey....Pages 1-8
A biographical sketch of Seward R. (Ted) Brown....Pages 9-11
The PIRLA project: Paleoecological investigations of recent lake acidification....Pages 13-20
 210 Pb dating by low background gamma counting....Pages 21-27
 137 Cs as a tracer of recent sedimentary processes in Lake Michigan....Pages 29-35
The chemistry of lake sediments in time and space....Pages 37-44
Calculating net annual accumulation rates of sediment components exemplified by pollen....Pages 45-47
Sedimentary records of accelerated nutrient loading in Florida lakes....Pages 49-53
Material transfer from water to sediment in Florida lakes....Pages 55-61
Pollen as a chronometer and sediment tracer, Burrinjuck Reservoir, Australia....Pages 63-69
Sedimentary pigments as an index of the trophic status of Lake Mead....Pages 71-77
Biogenic silica and phosphorus accumulation in sediments as indices of eutrophication in the Laurentian Great Lakes....Pages 79-86
Mallomonadacean (Chrysophyceae) Scales: Early biotic paleoindicators of lake acidification....Pages 87-91
The relationship between surface sediment diatom assemblages and pH in 33 Galloway lakes: Some regression models for reconstructing pH and their application to sediment cores....Pages 93-103
Diatom biostratigraphy and comparative core correlation within a small lake basin....Pages 105-112
Interpretation of bryozoan microfossils in lacustrine sediment cores....Pages 113-118
On the relationship between the Bosmina taxa coregoni and thersites (Cladocera), as indicated by subfossil remains....Pages 119-121
Ecological correlates of net accumulation rates of Cladocera remains in lake sediments....Pages 123-128
Cladoceran remains as indicators of lake acidification....Pages 129-134
Magnesium and strontium in non-marine ostracod shells as indicators of palaeosalinity and palaeotemperature....Pages 135-142
On the preservation of carapaces of some limnic ostracods: An exercise in actuopalaeontology....Pages 143-157
Information value of chironomid remains in the uppermost sediment layers of a complex lake basin....Pages 159-165
Paleolimnology of mid-elevation lakes in the Kenya Rift Valley....Pages 167-174
Upper Pleistocene and Holocene lakes in the An Nafud, Saudi Arabia....Pages 175-190
Late Quaternary palaeohydrology of Lake Huinaymarca (Bolivia)....Pages 191-197
The Pleistocene lake deposits of the NE Baza Basin (Spain): salinity variations and ostracod succession....Pages 199-208
Organic microscopic remains in Miocene lacustrine sediments near Libros (Teruel, Spain)....Pages 209-212
Non-siliceous algae in a five meter core from Lake Kinneret (Israel)....Pages 213-216
Limnologic consequences of the decline in hemlock 4800 years ago in three Southern Ontario lakes....Pages 217-225
Geology and sedimentary history of Lake Traunsee (Salzkammergut, Austria)....Pages 227-232
Sediments and sedimentary history of Lake Attersee (Salzkammergut, Austria)....Pages 233-246
Diatom distribution and diatom inferred pH in the sediment of four alpine lakes....Pages 247-254
Late Quaternary diatoms in the sediments of Przedni Staw Lake (Polish Tatra Mountains)....Pages 255-265
Scandinavian limnochronology of sediments and heavy metals....Pages 267-276
A geographical survey of littoral crustacea in Norway and their use in paleolimnology....Pages 277-286
Preliminary study of the development of the subfossil chironomid fauna (Diptera) of Lake Taylor, South Island, New Zealand, during the younger Holocene....Pages 287-291
Biogenic silica record in the sediments of Little Round Lake, Ontario....Pages 293-300
Litho- and palynostratigraphy at Lobsigensee: Evidences for trophic changes during the Holocene....Pages 301-307
An early meromictic stage in Lobsigensee (Switzerland) as evidenced by ostracods and Chaoborus ....Pages 309-314
Carotenoids from plankton and photosynthetic bacteria in sediments as indicators of trophic changes in Lake Lobsigen during the last 14000 years....Pages 315-320
Stratigraphy of specific algal and bacterial carotenoids in the sediments of Lake Varese (N. Italy)....Pages 321-325
The content of chlorophyll in the sediment of the volcanic maar lakes in the Eifel region (Germany) as an indicator for eutrophication....Pages 327-329
Phosphorus budgets and forms of phosphorus in the Sau reservoir sediment: An interpretation of the limnological record....Pages 331-336
Sediment accumulation in Lakes Lilla Ullfjärden and Stora Ullfjärden, Sweden....Pages 337-342
Chemical sediment stratigraphy of four high alpine lakes in Austria....Pages 343-348
Acidification history and crustacean remains: some ecological obstacles....Pages 349-354
Recent and long-term acidification of Upper Wallface Pond (N.Y.) as indicated by mallomonadacean microfossils....Pages 355-360
Recent sedimentation in a freshwater reservoir in SW-Finland: The diatomological and chemical evidence of sediments on the development of the water body....Pages 361-369
Recent sedimentological conditions in the delta of the river Kyrönjoki, Western Finland....Pages 371-377
Concentration and annual accumulation values of heavy metals in lake sediments: Their significance in studies of the history of heavy metal pollution....Pages 379-385
Sedimentary records of carbonaceous particles from fossil fuel combustion....Pages 387-394
Oligochaete cocoon remains as evidence of past lake pollution....Pages 395-400
Industrial tailings in Lake Traunsee (Salzkammergut, Austria)....Pages 401-405
Palynological investigations in sediments of ancient lake Duvensee, Schleswig-Holstein (North Germany)....Pages 407-410
Ostracod fauna of Duvensee, an ancient lake in Northern Germany....Pages 411-416
Effects of peatbog ditching in lakes: Problems in paleolimnological interpretation....Pages 417-424
Paleolimnological reflections of fiber-plant retting in the sediment of a small clearwater lake....Pages 425-431