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Introduction
First, I would like to express my gratitude for the Lifetime Achievement Award that was bestowed upon me by the International Paleolimnology Association (IPA). I thank both the Commission and the people who nominated me for this distinguished award. This honour was the result not only of my own scientific work, but of collaborations with many scientists with whom I have had the pleasure of working for more than 40 years. The award is very important to me, as it gives special meaning to my professional and life choices. It is gratifying to realise that through my scientific work and research on Cladocera remains, I contributed to the development and importance of paleolimnology. In this epoch of extreme changes in the natural environment, paleolimnological studies are becoming increasingly important (Smol 2012). Such studies enable us to infer changes that occurred in the past, to better understand contemporary changes, and to anticipate changes that will occur in the future. In paleolimnological studies, many types of biological analyses contribute to environmental reconstructions, and subfossil Cladocera analyses are among the most important (Korhola and Rautio 2001). Cladocera remains played a major role in my scientific career, and as I reminisce about my professional journey, I would like to emphasize the importance of research on this faunal group.
I am grateful to the Directors and Heads of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, who were my superiors during my more than 40-year career. They recognised the importance of paleolimnological studies and enabled me to pursue the analysis of Cladocera remains at the Institute as part of the study of geological profiles, under the broad umbrella of Quaternary research.
The beginning
It is likely that few people are aware that my first professional occupation was as a pharmacist at a hospital pharmacy, a job that gave me a lot of joy and satisfaction. Nevertheless, after I graduated from biological studies and defended my Master’s thesis in 1975 under the supervision of hydrobiologist Józef Mikulski (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń), my interests changed completely. My MS thesis, which focused on the analysis of lakes and zooplankton species composition, gave me great satisfaction and made aquatic invertebrates my life passion. I was very lucky to have met people of science, geologists who enabled me to pursue my passion for hydrobiology and combine it with sediment studies. My first contact with paleolimnology was during the 2nd International Symposium on Paleolimnology (14–20 September 1976, Mikołajki, Poland), when I was hired by Barbara Marciniak (the main host) to assist with organisation. The meeting of more than 130 paleolimnologists in Mikołajki included many of international renown, made a great impression on me and affected my future professional life. It was then that I decided to use my knowledge of modern Cladocera to reconstruct changes that had occurred in the natural environment in the past, and to incorporate the analysis of subfossil Cladocera into the methods for study of Quaternary sediments.
In 1976, I was employed as a laboratory assistant at ING PAN (Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences), where, in addition to my laboratory duties as a technical assistant, I was able to carry out my own research on Cladocera remains. I have worked at the Institute to this day, moving through the ranks of my scientific career—from a technical assistant to a full professor. The early years were difficult, because in the 1970s, analysis of subfossil Cladocera in Poland was little known and done only occasionally (Czeczuga and Kosacka 1977; Mikulski 1978). Furthermore, no taxonomic identification keys were available at that time, which made it very difficult to identify Cladoceran or Cladocera remains. Thanks to several scholarships (i.e. DAAD, Science Foundation in Austria, and the Polish Academy of Sciences, in Poland), I was able to participate in research internships abroad and make use of library and archival resources. I also received assistance from specialists including Wolfgang Hofmann (Max Planck Institute for Limnology, Plön, Germany) and Nikolai N. Smirnov (Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia), to whom I am very grateful. I am also very grateful to J. Mikulski, who not only instilled in me a passion for zooplankton while I was preparing my MS thesis, but also continuously encouraged me and provided invaluable professional help during my independent academic work. My most sincere gratitude goes to the late Professor David G. Frey (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA), who, whenever he visited Poland, always found time for discussions, and provided me with professional and methodological advice, as well as assistance with identification of Cladocera remains. David Frey was a great man, who inspired others with his knowledge and passion for Cladocera analysis. He had a tremendous influence on my scientific work, reassured me of the value of Cladocera remain analysis, verified my taxonomic identifications of remains, and proofread my first papers. In our conversations about Cladocera remains, funny situations often occurred, mainly related to nomenclature, which resulted from his use of the “American version” of Latin species names and my use of the “Polish version.” I recall those moments with great sentiment and hope that I have inspired my students with the same passion David Frey used to inspire me.
Brief outline of the research
In Poland, research in the field of paleolimnology advanced substantially from 1980 to 1990, owing to a group of scientists who represented various fields of science, from palynology to archaeology. As a member of such a group, and one who cooperated with scientists from multiple disciplines, I benefited from their broad knowledge and expertise, and became aware of the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the value of results provided by studies in other fields, e.g. archaeological investigations, for environmental reconstruction. In the 1980s, I focused mainly on Cladocera from paleolakes—Woryty (Pawlikowski et al. 1982) and Niechorze (Kopczyńska-Lamparska et al. 1983), on which I wrote my doctoral thesis (Szeroczyńska 1985). A breakthrough in my scientific work came with the research carried out at sites in Błędowo and Gościąż (Bińka et al. 1988, 1991; Goslar et al. 1991; Szeroczyńska 1991, 1998d). Lake Gościąż became a reference site for Central Europe, and results of research carried out on its annually laminated sediments were presented in a number of papers (e.g. Goslar et al. 1993, 1997, 1999; Ralska-Jasiewiczowa et al. 1997), as well as a monograph (Ralska-Jasiewiczowa et al. 1998). Multiple analyses of the laminated sediments from this lake enabled high-resolution (annual) inference of ecological and climate changes in Central Europe during the Late Glacial and Holocene. I presented the laminated sediments of Lake Gościąż and the results of the analysis of Cladocera remains deposited over the last 13,000 years at multiple scientific symposia. Results from a detailed analysis of Cladocera in the Late Glacial and Holocene (6-year resolution in the Late Glacial and 50-year resolution in the Holocene) became a “window” for me into the “world of science” (Ralska-Jasiewiczowa et al. 1997; Szeroczynska 1998c, d). For many years, I participated in international symposia on Cladocera and paleolimnology. I expanded my knowledge of modern and subfossil Cladocera, and presented results of my analyses of Cladocera remains from heterogeneous lake sites (Szeroczyńska 1998b, 1998c, 2002, 2003; Bałaga et al. 2002; Szeroczyńska and Gąsiorowski 2002). I always keep in mind what David Frey said to hydrobiologists at the Third International Symposium on Cladocera (9–16 August 1993, Bergen, Norway): “To understand the conditions prevailing in today’s lakes, we need to learn about their condition and development in the past, and for this we need paleolimnology.” It was in Bergen that I presented, for the first time, data on subfossil Cladocera from laminated sediments of Lake Gościąż. The data triggered considerable discussion, which was continued in private by Symposium participants during a coffee break. As you can see in Fig. 1, Henri Dumont was an active discussant among the hydrobiologists. To this day, whenever I meet Professor Dumont at scientific conferences, we always find time for discussions, for which I am very grateful.
In the 1990s, I used Cladocera to the maximum extent possible as indicators of environmental changes through time. I observed clear boundaries with respect to composition and frequency of Cladocera species in sediment profiles, in both mountain and lowland lakes, especially across cold and warm periods. Regardless of the type and location of a lake, I always found a quantitative and qualitative change in Cladocera during the transition period between the Late Glacial and the Holocene (Szeroczyńska 1984, 2006; Szeroczyńska and Milecka 2007; Zawisza and Szeroczyńska 2007). I used this information for “biostratigraphic” purposes, mainly for determining the Late Glacial/Holocene boundary (Figs. 2, 3). The results formed the basis of a number of published papers on the importance of subfossil Cladocera for documenting climate change, as well as changes in trophic state conditions and water level in lakes (Szeroczyńska 1998d, 2002; Sarmaja-Korjonen et al. 2003; Gąsiorowski and Szeroczyńska 2004). With respect to the historical period, from the Mesolithic to the present day, I demonstrated the impact of human economic activity, as well as the impact of climate, on the development of Cladocera and the trophic state of lakes (Milecka and Szeroczyńska 2005; Milecka et al. 2011). The research I conducted until 1998 became the basis for my postdoctoral thesis, i.e. habilitation (Szeroczyńska 1998a, b, c; Szeroczyńska and Polcyn 1998), and the achievement of an academic degree (Dr. DSc.) that allows me to supervise theses of PhD students.
Influence of international contacts
The international collaborations I established in the 1990s were important to my academic career and had a great impact on my scientific work. Those collaborations yielded several co-authored publications that involved the analysis of subfossil Cladocera and reconstruction of climate change in time and space. International contacts and scholarships enabled me to conduct research on lacustrine deposits outside Poland. Cooperation with colleagues Roland Schmidt and Christian Kamenik, from the Research Institute for Limnology in Mondsee (Austria), proved very rewarding, and outcomes included the analysis of Cladocera remains from sediments of Lake Vrana (Cres, Croatia) and from northern Adriatic Valun Bay (Schmidt et al. 2000, 2001a, b). The above examples illustrate the importance of collaborations between experts. Other data, especially palynological information used to determine the human settlement phases, enabled interpretation of data on species composition and abundance of subfossil Cladocera. The plot of Cladocera frequency in deep Lake Vrana could not have been interpreted correctly without data on human settlement phases. The sudden appearance of planktonic Cladocera species in the late Holocene (ca. 2.8 ka BP) was clearly a result of water-column nutrient enrichment, i.e. an anthropogenic effect. This applies particularly to the Roman and Medieval Period settlement phases, and was not, as the species composition might have indicated, a consequence of changes in water level (Fig. 4). Together with Roland Schmidt and Christian Kamenik, I was also able to analyse sediments from Alpine lakes (Austria), located relatively close to one another, but at different altitudes (Kamenik et al. 2007). The results showed a high correlation between Cladocera species composition and lake morphometry, but above all, with altitude, water temperature and solar irradiance (Fig. 5).
One of my most rewarding international collaborations has involved long-term cooperation with scientists from the University of Helsinki, in particular Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen and Atte Korhola (Sarmaja-Korjonen et al. 2003; Szeroczyńska et al. 2007). The number of European specialists using Cladocera remains to study changes in the natural environment has increased tremendously owing to a number of workshops on subfossil Cladocera (Bjerring et al. 2008; Köver et al. 2012). The first workshop was organised in 1999 in Helsinki by Atte Korhola. Since then, the annual workshops were organised in different European countries, with professional support from Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen and me, as well as other experts (Fig. 6). In 2018, the XV Subfossil Cladocera Workshop was held in Veszpren, Hungary and attended by 22 scientists. Each workshop brought together both junior and senior researchers, which promoted an exchange of knowledge and in-depth study of the identification of Cladocera remains. One rewarding outcome of my cooperation with Kaarina Sarmaja-Korjonen was the publication of the first professional key for identification of Cladocera remains (Szeroczyńska and Sarmaja-Korjonen 2007). The taxonomic key was created thanks to the enormous efforts and commitment of Kaarina, to whom I am extremely grateful. This publication has facilitated identification of Cladocera remains and contributed to greater use of Cladocera remains in paleoenvironmental research. I thank the many people who helped us during our work on the Atlas (Szeroczyńska and Sarmaja-Korjonen 2007). I cannot list everyone, but I would particularly like to acknowledge younger colleagues who supported us with technical assistance, as well as, among others, John Smol for encouraging the idea of a taxonomic identification key, Adam Jeziorski for nomenclature and language verification, and Jarosław Pająkowski for facilitating swift publication of the Atlas. Publication of a professional identification key facilitated the work of junior researchers and led to greater interest in the analysis of Cladocera remains, and thus to an increase in the number of specialists in Europe who incorporate cladoceran analysis into paleolimnological studies.
In Poland, and especially at the Institute of Geological Sciences PAS, the interest in paleolimnology continues to grow. My PhD students not only conduct basic analyses on Cladocera remains, but have developed a number of methodological modifications, and expanded application of Cladocera analysis for sediment studies across time and space. Monika Niska is an expert in the analysis of Eemian (ca. 130–115 ka) Cladocera remains from lacustrine sediments (Mirosław-Grabowska et al. 2018). Michał Gąsiorowski (Galbarczyk-Gąsiorowska et al. 2009), Jarosław Pająkowski (Kowalewski et al. 2001), Edyta Zawisza (Antipushina et al. 2012; Zawiska et al. 2013), Magdalena Suchora (Fiłoc et al. 2017) and Manuela Milan (Milan et al. 2017) have analysed Cladocera remains to explore the genesis and ontogeny of water bodies, including oxbow lakes, peat bogs, and both shallow and deep lakes of different trophic status. In addition to Cladocera analysis, these researchers conducted chemical analyses and other biological analyses, to reconstruct past conditions. Each of them continues to carry out paleolimnological research at her or his home academic institution.
At the Institute of Geological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where the research focus is mainly geology, there is a large group involved in paleolimnological studies. The group uses subfossil Cladocera analysis, combined with other methods, e.g. palynology (M. Obremska), diatoms (E. Sienkiewicz), stable isotopes (J. Mirosław-Grabowska), and 210Pb/137Cs dating (M. Gąsiorowski) to reconstruct climate and ecological changes that have occurred in the remote and more recent past.
Bilateral foreign projects
Throughout my career I have developed new foreign contacts and this has led to a number of joint research projects, with the participation of other Institute of Geological Sciences employees. These projects involved research on sediments of lakes in both cold and warm areas. The objectives of the research were not limited to reconstruction of the evolution of the lakes, but also included documentation of past climate shifts and/or the effects of human activities. Together with Finnish scientists, we carried out a study on sediments from lakes in Lapland. Lakes Somaslampi and Kevo, among others, were studied as part of the LABIAT I and LABIAT II projects (Lapland Biosphere–Atmosphere Facility (LABIAT) Finland). Chemical and biological (diatoms, cladoceran) analysis, combined with sediment dating, enabled us to determine the past hydrology of lakes and climate changes that prevailed in the vicinity of the water bodies from the Late Glacial to present (Szeroczyńska et al. 2007; Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2011a).
Another subject of my research was the sediment of Spitsbergen’s (Norway) water bodies, a project undertaken in cooperation with Edyta Zawisza. The species composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton in these shallow lakes is much poorer than that in Lapland lakes, which indicates the influence of a more Arctic climate on Cladocera (Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2011a; Zawisza and Szeroczyńska 2011). The effects of continental versus Atlantic climate were also demonstrated by results of research conducted on lakes in northern Poland (Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2005, 2011a; Zawisza and Szeroczyńska 2007; Drzymulska et al. 2015). Subfossil Cladocera were also used to address the occurrence of cold events associated with the PDO, 8.2-ka, and the Little Ice Age (Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2011b; Fiłoc et al. 2017; Zawisza et al. 2017). Lakes in warm, tropical areas were analysed in cooperation with Edyta Zawisza and Margarita Caballero (UNAM, Mexico) as part of joint research projects (Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2015; Szeroczyńska et al. 2015; Zawisza et al. 2017; Hamerlik et al. 2018). Mexican Lakes Sol and Luna, located in the crater of the Nevado de Toluca volcano, and several cenotes (sinkhole lakes), were examined in pilot studies. Phytoplankton and zooplankton responses to Little Ice Age climate were recorded in sediments of these lakes, and the last eruption of Nevado de Toluca was dated with better accuracy.
Research on tropical lakes continued in cooperation with Antje Schwalb (Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany). Sediment samples from the PISDP (Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project) were used to assess qualitative and quantitative species composition of Cladocera in sediments of Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala). These sediments recorded prevailing conditions during the late Quaternary. For the first time, I was able to study invertebrate species composition during cold periods, the so-called Heinrich Events (Cohuo et al. 2018). Associated with the doctoral theses of Sergio Cohuo and Laura Macario-Gonzalez, carried out under the direction of A. Schwalb, I was provided with sediment samples for subfossil Cladocera analysis, and collaborated on analyses with E. Zawisza and M. Wojewódka, on research on lakes in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The effects of climate change (Little Ice Age), as well as intense human activities, were studied using sediment cores from these lakes (Wojewódka et al. 2018).
Human impacts on lakes have always aroused my interest. Since the 1980s, both subfossil Cladocera and analysis of the eutrophication process have been my passions. I’ve explored why some lakes in an area become eutrophic and are transformed into peat bogs, whereas others, even of similar morphometry, turn into dystrophic water bodies (Szeroczyńska and Gąsiorowski 2002; Szeroczyńska 2003; Kowalewski et al. 2013; Drzymulska et al. 2015; Zawisza et al. 2019). While studying the sediments and inferring past changes that occurred in the lake environment over the centuries, I observed large changes in the Cladocera fauna. The diversity of the study lakes, from oligotrophic to hypereutrophic to dystrophic, shallow and deep, enabled me to observe the adaptability of the Cladocera fauna, as well as their ecological tolerances (Kowalewski et al. 2013; Sapelko et al. 2013; Szeroczyńska 2016). Analysis of cladoceran remains revealed changes in community structure and morphology within a species, which made it possible to observe the adaptations of organisms to changing environmental conditions in lakes, especially to extreme conditions like high turbidity, lake acidification, and algal blooms. Adaptations are frequently observed in individuals of the family Bosminidae, which produce extreme morphs during unfavourable seasons (Gąsiorowski and Szeroczyńska 2004; Błędzki et al. 2013; Błędzki and Szeroczyńska 2015). The question remains as to why such Bosmina forms appear only in some lakes. I found extreme morphs mainly in relatively deep lakes. In Poland, I found them in organic sediments of Lake Ostrowite (40 m deep), but only in some layers, i.e. during specific periods of sedimentation (Gąsiorowski and Szeroczyńska 2004). I did not, however, find them in nearby Charzykowskie Lake (~ 31 m deep) (Szeroczyńska and Zawisza 2011b). Therefore, the question arises as to what accounts for such differences in the development of the Cladocera fauna in lakes located close to one another and characterised by similar morphometry. Achim Brauer and Nadine Dräger (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany) provided me with well dated sediments (partially laminated) from Lake Tiefer See (Germany), in which I found extreme morphs that enabled me to investigate the question of their occurrence more thoroughly, in time and space (Dräger et al. 2016; Szeroczyńska 2016). In combination with the results of other analyses carried out on the same sediment layers, we concluded that the occurrence of such morphs is likely controlled by multiple factors, e.g. water turbidity and/or fish predation pressure. That, however, is only a hypothesis, which requires further analysis.
The first occurrence of Bosmina thersites in sediments of Baltic lakes, deposited ca. 800 years ago, is also puzzling (Błędzki et al. 2013; Błędzki and Szeroczyńska 2015). I have never found this species in older sediments. Perhaps the species arrived recently in the Baltic area, along with human migrants. Or possibly, it appeared in response to specific conditions related to the influence of coastal climate, which could have caused the transformation of one of the species in the family Bosminidae.
The future
There is still plenty to explore in the field of subfossil Cladocera analysis. My young colleagues, i.e. the many students and others who have participated in workshops on subfossil Cladocera, and who are passionately involved in the analysis of Cladocera remains, will address the challenges (Fig. 7). In the future, statistical analyses and models will be applied and all variables and physico-chemical factors that influence Cladocera will be taken into account. This will make it possible to draw more realistic inferences about the changes that occurred in the past, to better understand current conditions, and to predict future environmental conditions in lakes. Many investigators have applied modelling successfully, enabling them to better understand changes caused by natural and anthropogenic factors (Luoto and Nevalainen 2018).
I have always been intrigued by how long Cladocera remains are preserved in lake sediments. Research suggested that Cladocera remains could be preserved in sediments as old as ~ 300,000 years. Recent studies, however, indicate that this age was far too conservative. Indeed, Cladocera remains were recently found in sediments deposited in the Neogene, ca. 10,000,000 years ago (Zawisza et al. 2018). Therefore, the use of these bioindicators in “paleo” studies will no doubt increase in the future. In this current time of global climate and ecological changes, any bioindicator that can be used to infer past climate and environmental change must be given serious consideration. Subfossil Cladocera certainly qualify.
After more than 40 years, my adventure with subfossil Cladocera is coming to an end. Nevertheless, I know that research on this fascinating invertebrate group will continue to flourish under the direction my many young colleagues, who have been “hooked by the Cladocera-paleolimnology bug.” It brings me great satisfaction knowing that the research that so captivated me will be continued by my students—scientists who not only use the knowledge they have been taught, but also broaden the scope of research. At present, there are about 15 scientists in Poland (the largest group in Europe), who are experts in subfossil Cladocera analysis. I support them all and hope that one day they will also recognize their scientific work has been a great life adventure.
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I thank all my Polish and foreign colleagues with whom I have had the pleasure of working during different stages of my career. I am very grateful to them for their knowledge, understanding and friendship. I acknowledge my foreign colleagues for their support during my stays at their Institutes and for many fruitful discussions. I am very grateful to Professors E. Jeppesen (National Environmental Research Institute, Silkeborg, Denmark), R. Battarbee (University College, London, Great Britain), N.N. Smirnov and A.A. Kotov (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, Russia), E. Vicente and M.R. Miracle (University of Valentia, Spain). I thank A. Korhola (University of Helsinki) for organising the expedition and unforgettable moments during sampling in Lapland lakes. I thank M. Caballero (UNAM, Mexico), B. Xue (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Nanjing, China), A. Schwalb (Technische Universität, Braunschweig, Germany) and Philipp Hoelzmann (Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany) for cooperation and joint research. I am grateful to all my Polish colleagues and friends, students and technical assistants, who have always been ready to help. I am most grateful to Professor T. Madeyska, who supported me with advice and help throughout my academic career. I am also indebted to the Directors of my Institute, Professors M. Lewandowski and E. Słaby, for fruitful cooperation during my time as Head of the Research Centre in Warsaw. I thank Professors W. Alexandrowicz, L. Starkel, L. Marks, J. Mirosław-Grabowska and E. Zawisza for professional collaboration during work carried out by the Committee for Quaternary Research PAS and INQUA. Lastly, I thank the Polish grant agency NCN (National Science Centre) for funding the scientific Projects (2012/05/B/ST10/00469 and 2014/13/B/ST10/02534) that enabled productive international collaborations. In addition, a great thank you to Mark Brenner for carefully reviewing the manuscript.
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Szeroczyńska, K. Forty years of my adventures with Cladocera remains: retrospection on my scientific work. J Paleolimnol 61, 437–448 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-019-00070-8
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