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Paleolimnological studies in Russian northern Eurasia: A review

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This article presents a review of the current data on the level of paleolimnological knowledge about lakes in the Russian part of the northern Eurasia. The results of investigation of the northwestern European part of Russia as the best paleolimnologically studied sector of the Russian north is presented in detail. The conditions of lacustrine sedimentation at the boundary between the Late Pleistocene and Holocene and the role of different external factors in formation of their chemical composition, including active volcanic activity and possible large meteorite impacts, are also discussed. The results of major paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstructions in northern Siberia are presented. Particular attention is given to the databases of abiotic and biotic parameters of lake ecosystems as an important basis for quantitative reconstructions of climatic and ecological changes in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Keywords: paleolimnology, lakes, bottom sediments, northern

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  1. Northern Water Problems Institute, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, 185030, Russia

    D. A. Subetto

  2. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia

    D. A. Subetto, L. S. Syrykh & I. M. Grekov

  3. Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany

    L. B. Nazarova & B. Diekmann

  4. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, 14473, Germany

    L. B. Nazarova, B. Biskaborn & B. Diekmann

  5. Kazan (Volga) Federal University, Kazan, 420008, Russia

    L. B. Nazarova & L. S. Syrykh

  6. Ammosov Northeastern Federal University, Yakutsk, 677000, Russia

    L. A. Pestryakova

  7. Branch of Geochemistry and Laboratories, Czech Geological Survey, Prague, 15200, Czech Republic

    A. V. Andronikov

  8. Institute of Limnology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 196105, Russia

    D. D. Kuznetsov & T. V. Sapelko

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Original Russian Text © D.A. Subetto, L.B. Nazarova, L.A. Pestryakova, L.S. Syrykh, A.V. Andronikov, B. Biskaborn, B. Diekmann, D.D. Kuznetsov, T.V. Sapelko, I.M. Grekov, 2017, published in Sibirskii Ekologicheskii Zhurnal, 2017, No. 4, pp. 369–380.

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Subetto, D.A., Nazarova, L.B., Pestryakova, L.A. et al. Paleolimnological studies in Russian northern Eurasia: A review. Contemp. Probl. Ecol. 10, 327–335 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1995425517040102

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