Abstract
Insects are one of the most important groups of animals preserved in the Quaternary fossil record. Over the past 50 years, the field of insect fossil research has developed into a fully-fledged discipline within Quaternary science, beginning with Coope’s (1959) groundbreaking work in Britain. Insect remains from lake sediments, as well as from bogs, fluvial sediments, and other types of organic deposits, are now commonly used to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions, especially paleoclimates (Elias, 1994). The extraction of insect fossils from organic-rich sediments is relatively easy and inexpensive, although the identification of specimens may be considerably more arduous. This chapter discusses the extraction, identification, and paleoenvironmental interpretation of insect fossils found in Quaternary lake sediments.
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Elias, S.A. (2001). Coleoptera and Trichoptera. In: Smol, J.P., Birks, H.J.B., Last, W.M. (eds) Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47671-1_4
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