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Open AccessRegional impacts of warming on biodiversity and biomass in high latitude stream ecosystems across the Northern Hemisphere
Warming can have profound impacts on ecological communities. However, explorations of how differences in biogeography and productivity might reshape the effect of warming have been limited to theoretical or pr...
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Correction to: Experimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae
A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00196-8
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Open AccessExperimental determination of the temperature dependence of oxygen-isotope fractionation between water and chitinous head capsules of chironomid larvae
Oxygen-isotope values of invertebrate cuticle preserved in lake sediments have been used in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, generally with the assumption that fractionation of oxygen isotopes between cuti...
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Open AccessInsect body size changes under future warming projections: a case study of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera)
Chironomids are a useful group for investigating body size responses to warming due to their high local abundance and sensitivity to environmental change. We collected specimens of six species of chironomids e...
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Open AccessForests protect aquatic communities from detrimental impact by volcanic deposits in the tropical Andes (Ecuador)
Volcanic activity impacts ecosystems sometimes with multiple, complex and long-lasting consequences, including volcanic tephra (airborne material) causing widespread disruptions. We study the effects of tephra...
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Eutrophication erodes inter-basin variation in macrophytes and co-occurring invertebrates in a shallow lake: combining ecology and palaeoecology
Aquatic biodiversity is commonly linked with environmental variation in lake networks, but less is known about how local factors may influence within-lake biological heterogeneity. Using a combined ecological ...
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Open AccessAquatic community response to volcanic eruptions on the Ecuadorian Andean flank: evidence from the palaeoecological record
Aquatic ecosystems in the tropical Andes are under increasing pressure from human modification of the landscape (deforestation and dams) and climatic change (increase of extreme events and 1.5 °C on average t...
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Open AccessFennoscandian freshwater control on Greenland hydroclimate shifts at the onset of the Younger Dryas
Sources and timing of freshwater forcing relative to hydroclimate shifts recorded in Greenland ice cores at the onset of Younger Dryas, ∼12,800 years ago, remain speculative. Here we show that progressive Fenn...
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A reply to ‘A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England: missing data’ (Tooley 2015)
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A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England
Extracting sediment cores for palaeoecological and archaeological investigations has occurred extensively across England since the early 20th century. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little collati...
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Natural history museum collections provide information on phenological change in British butterflies since the late-nineteenth century
Museum collections have the potential to provide valuable information on the phenological response of organisms to climate change. This is particularly useful for those species for which few data otherwise exi...
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Validation of climate model-inferred regional temperature change for late-glacial Europe
Comparisons of climate model hindcasts with independent proxy data are essential for assessing model performance in non-analogue situations. However, standardized palaeoclimate data sets for assessing the spat...
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Late glacial and Holocene environmental changes inferred from sediments in Lake Myklevatnet, Nordfjord, western Norway
Late Glacial and Holocene environmental changes were reconstructed using physical, chemical and biological proxies in Lake Myklevatnet, Allmenningen, (5º13′17″E, 61º55′13″N) located at the northern side of Nor...
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A comparison of three Eurasian chironomid–climate calibration datasets on a W–E continentality gradient and the implications for quantitative temperature reconstructions
Multiple regional chironomid–climate calibration datasets are available to reconstruct quantitatively July air temperatures from fossil chironomid assemblages. We examined the relationship between July air tem...
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Relationships between chironomids and water depth in Bosten Lake, **njiang, northwest China
A significant relationship between the distribution and abundance of chironomids and water depth has long been recognized. Few studies on this topic, however, have been carried out in arid regions where the ch...
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Ecological responses to climate change in a bird-impacted High Arctic pond (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard)
A 28-cm sediment core from an Arctic pond (Nordaustlandet, Svalbard), which is currently subjected to the fertilizing effect of bird guano, was analysed for fossil invertebrates and the physical properties of ...
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Response of chironomids to late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental change in the eastern Bolivian Andes
We present the first palaeolimnological investigation of chironomid larval assemblages from the Bolivian Eastern Cordillera. Taxonomic diagnoses are provided for the 10 chironomid taxa (subfamilies: Chironomin...
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Population trends in the Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (L.) and Chironomidae (Diptera) at a Scottish loch
Loch Ruthven holds the largest British population of the rare water-bird Podiceps auritus, the Slavonian or horned grebe. The breeding success of this bird has fluctuated annually since records began in 1970. To ...
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A 1000-year chironomid-based salinity reconstruction from varved sediments of Sugan Lake, Qaidam Basin, arid Northwest China, and its palaeoclimatic significance
A 1000-year high-resolution (∼10 years) chironomid record from varved sediments of Sugan Lake, Qaidam Basin on the northern Tibetan Plateau, is presented. The chironomid assemblages are mainly composed of the ...
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Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climatic change in lakes from the northern Urals, arctic Russia
The recent sediments from two deep arctic lakes, Mitrofanovskoe and Vanuk-ty, situated in the permafrost belt within the Bol’shezemel’skaya Tundra in the northern Ural region, were studied for diatoms, chirono...
