Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments - Volume 4: Zoological Indicators (Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research)

✍ Scribed by John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks, William M. Last

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Series: Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This fourth volume in the Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research series deals with the major zoological indicators used in paleolimnology. Other volumes deal with the acquisition and archiving of lake sediment cores, chronological techniques, and large-scale basin analysis methods (Volume 1), physical and geochemical parameters and methods (Volume 2), terrestrial, algal, and siliceous indicators (Volume 3), and statistical and data handling methods (Volume 5). These monographs provide sufficient detail and breadth to be useful handbooks for both seasoned practitioners as well as newcomers to the area of paleolimnology. Although the chapters in these volumes target mainly lacustrine settings, many of the techniques described can also be readily applied to fluvial, glacial, marine, estuarine, and peatland environments.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
The Editors......Page 13
Aims & Scope of Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Book Series......Page 14
Editors and Board of Advisors of Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research Book Series......Page 15
Contents of Volumes 1 to 4......Page 16
Safety Considerations and Caution......Page 19
List of Contributors......Page 20
1. Zoological indicators in lake sediments: an introduction......Page 24
References......Page 26
Cladocera......Page 28
Other crustacean branchiopods......Page 52
Summary......Page 54
References......Page 55
Overview of life cycles and ecology......Page 66
Methods......Page 69
Indicator potential......Page 76
Future directions......Page 80
References......Page 81
Sampling of insect fossils......Page 90
Extraction of insect fossils from sediment......Page 91
Specimen identification......Page 93
Paleoenvironmental interpretation......Page 97
Paleotemperature reconstructions......Page 99
Summary......Page 100
References......Page 102
Introduction......Page 104
Brief history......Page 105
Outline of methods......Page 106
Indicator potential......Page 112
Summary......Page 118
Acknowledgements......Page 119
Appendix 1......Page 120
References......Page 123
Introduction......Page 128
Methods......Page 131
Statoblasts in sedimentary records......Page 134
Indicator potential......Page 139
Conclusions and future directions......Page 141
References......Page 142
Introduction......Page 148
Biology and taxonomy......Page 149
Ecology......Page 151
Ecological, palaeoecological and geochemical techniques......Page 155
Acknowledgements......Page 167
References......Page 168
Introduction......Page 176
Field methods......Page 179
Data interpretation......Page 180
Geochemical approaches......Page 185
References......Page 188
Introduction......Page 196
Establishing the stratigraphic framework......Page 197
Otoliths......Page 198
Summary......Page 206
References......Page 207
Glossary, Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 212
B......Page 232
C......Page 233
E......Page 234
H......Page 235
M......Page 236
O......Page 237
R......Page 238
S......Page 239
Z......Page 240