Abstract
Changes in climate and in the geomorphology of drainage basins in the past have altered water and nutrient budgets and, as a result, productivity and rates of eutrophication of lake ecosystems. In many cases, human activites have accelerated greatly these changes, but on a much shorter time scale. A record of the resulting alterations in chemistry, flora, and fauna is left in the sediments as static derivatives of dynamic systems. Paleolimnology assesses the sedimentary record and the diagenetic processes that may alter it. An ultimate goal is to gain insight into the past conditions that caused a lake to enter a different level of productivity.
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Wetzel, R.G., Likens, G.E. (1991). Historical Records of Changes in the Productivity of Lakes. In: Limnological Analyses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4098-1_27
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