Author/Editor		Catalan, J; Pla, S; Rieradevall, M; Felip, M; Ventura, M; Buchaca, T; Camarero, L; Brancelj, A; Appleby, PG; Lami, A
Title		Lake Redo ecosystem response to an increasing warming in the Pyrenees during the twentieth century
Type		članek
Source		J Paleolimnol
Vol. and No.		Letnik 28, št. 1
Publication year		2002
Volume		str. 129-45
Language		eng
Abstract		The ecosystem response of Lake Redo (Central Pyrenees) to fluctuations in seasonal air temperature during the last two centuries was investigated by comparison of reconstructed air temperatures with the sediment record. Fine slicing allowed a resolution of 3-6 years according to the 210Pb dating, although it was still difficult to easily investigate the response to air temperature forcing, since extreme fluctuations in temperature occur on interannual timescales. However, the resolution was sufficient to show responses on decadal and century scales. An overall tendency to warming in mean annual temperature in the Central Pyrenees has been caused by summer and in particular by autumn increases. Many of the measured sediment variables apparently responded to these long term trends, but the significance of the relationships was highly conditioned by the structure of the data. The variables responding most on the finer time scales were the microfossils. For diatoms, chironomids and chrysophytes the main variability correlated to summer and to autumn temperatures. For two planktonic species, Fragilaria nanana and Cyclotella pseudostelligera, we found a link of their variability with temperature fluctuations in their growing months (September and October, respectively). This relationship appeared at a certain point during a general warming trend, indicating a threshold in the response. On the other hand, no significant changes in the dominant species could be linked to temperature, nor in any significant subgroup of the 180 diatom species present in the core. In contrast, for most chironomids (particularly Paratanytarsus austriacus, Heterotrissocladius marcidus and Micropsectra radialis) a negative relationship with summer temperature extended throughout the studied period. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters)
Descriptors		FRESH WATER METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS FOSSILS DIATOMS CRUSTACEA CHLOROPHYLL CHIRONOMIDAE ALGAE TEMPERATURE ECOSYSTEM SPAIN