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Quantification of Holocene lake-level changes in Finnish Lapland using a cladocera – lake depth transfer model

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During recent years, numerous studies dealing with Holocene lake level fluctuations have been conducted in Finnish Lapland. However, no quantification of lake level variations exists to date. Here, we applied a recently developed modern cladocera – lake depth transfer model to subfossil cladocerans analysed from three small and shallow (< 6 m) kettle-hole lakes in northwestern Finnish Lapland to provide estimates of the amplitudes of long-term lake-level changes in the region. The quantitative inferences were compared to pollen, charcoal and geochemical records from one of the study sites. The lake levels were inferred to be high during the early Holocene; they faced marked reduction up to 4–6 m in the mid-Holocene (≈7000–4000 cal  yr BP), and rose again during the latter part of the Holocene. There is some indication of lowered lake levels around 1500 cal  yr BP, but interpretation of such small-scale changes is hazardous due to large prediction errors in the initial cladoceran model. The overall pattern of the Holocene lake level variation generally followed the regional changes in climate humidity as reconstructed in previous studies by means of other sedimentary proxy indicators, such as pollen and oxygen isotopic compositions. We postulate that changes in winter precipitation may have had a greater influence on lake-levels than variations in summer precipitation or evaporation.

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    Atte Korhola & Jan Weckström

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Korhola, A., Tikkanen, M. & Weckström, J. Quantification of Holocene lake-level changes in Finnish Lapland using a cladocera – lake depth transfer model. J Paleolimnol 34, 175–190 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-005-1839-0

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