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Climate and environmental history of Laguna Polo, Santa Cruz, Southern Patagonia (49°S) since 1300 CE
Patagonia is a unique area for climate studies, exposed to the strong Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds (SWW) and modulated by the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). Patagonia is also affected by volcanic eruptions...
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Open AccessTracking the legacy of early industrial activity in sediments of Lake Zurich, Switzerland: using a novel multi-proxy approach to find the source of extensive metal contamination
Historical industrial activities at the Horn Richterwil, on the shore of Lake Zurich (Switzerland), caused widespread metal contamination on land and in the adjacent lake sediments. This study provides an esti...
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Open AccessUnravelling climate change impacts from other anthropogenic influences in a subalpine lake: a multi-proxy sediment study from Oberer Soiernsee (Northern Alps, Germany)
Mountain lakes are increasingly impacted by a series of both local and global disturbances. The present study reveals the eutrophication history of a remote subalpine lake (Oberer Soiernsee, Northern Alps, Ger...
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Open AccessAssessing Subaquatic Mass Movement Hazards: an Integrated Observational and Hydrodynamic Modelling Approach
High-resolution lake and reservoir bathymetric surveys can pinpoint locations that may experience underwater landslides (subaquatic sedimentary mass movements). These can pose a risk to underwater and shorelin...
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Recent cyanobacteria abundance in a large sub-tropical reservoir inferred from analysis of sediment cores
Salto Grande is a large South American reservoir on the border between Uruguay and Argentina that was impounded in 1979 and experiences recurrent, massive cyanobacteria blooms. A water-monitoring program was i...
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Impact of human activities and climate on Lake Morenito, Northern Patagonia, Argentina
Lake Morenito located in the Argentinean Patagonia has been exposed to climatic, volcanic, and anthropogenic impacts for the last decades. In particular, the damming of the lake and the eruption of the Calbuco...
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Historical eruptions of Lautaro Volcano and their impacts on lacustrine ecosystems in southern Argentina
Lacustrine sediment sequences were obtained from Lagunas Verde and Gemelas Este, two small lakes located east of the southern Patagonian Ice Field and close to the village of El Chaltén, in Argentinian Patagon...
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Large and deep perialpine lakes: a paleolimnological perspective for the advance of ecosystem science
The present paper aims at reviewing general knowledge of large European perialpine lakes as provided by sediment studies, and at outlining the contribution, from several lines of evidence, of modern paleolimno...
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Homogenization of lake cyanobacterial communities over a century of climate change and eutrophication
Human impacts on biodiversity are well recognized, but uncertainties remain regarding patterns of diversity change at different spatial and temporal scales. Changes in microbial assemblages are, in particular,...
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Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments
The depth of oxygen penetration and microbial activity in marine sediments varies by region. Sediment cores from the South Pacific Gyre host oxygen and aerobic microbial communities to at least 75 metres below...
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Indonesian vegetation response to changes in rainfall seasonality over the past 25,000 years
The hydrological response to climate forcing during the past 25,000 years varied throughout the Indo-Pacific warm pool region. Marine sediment records suggest that during the Last Glacial Maximum, drying in no...
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Evaluating Cenozoic equatorial sediment deposition anomalies for potential paleoceanographic and Pacific plate motion applications
If equatorial sediments form characteristic deposits around the equator, they may help to resolve the amount of northwards drift of the Pacific tectonic plate. Relevant to this issue, it has been shown that 230Th...
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Protein Binding and Stereoselectivity of Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Stereoselective binding of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can be studied using various techniques. Thus the results obtained by different investigators may be poorly consistent and even contradi...
