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The history of Stare Biele paleolake (northeast Poland) has been reconstructed using subfossil Cladocera remains and pollen and spores of aquatic and mire plants from a sediment core. Sediment accumulation began approximately 12,000 years ago during the Older Dryas chronozone. Throughout the entire Late Glacial period, the basin was a small, low-trophic state lake with a developed open-water zone. A well-recorded increase in the trophic state started at the beginning of Holocene. The lake reached its highest trophic level during the early and middle Atlantic chronozone. The first human activity in the lake catchment area occurred at this time, as recorded by fern spores and numerous charcoal grains. Repeated rises in lake water level are documented at the beginning and throughout the early part of the Younger Dryas. Two clear events of decreasing lake water levels are recorded, first during the middle part of the Younger Dryas and second in the Preboreal. Terrestrialization processes first intensified at the end of Atlantic period, which appears to correspond to a decrease in pH.
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Gąsiorowski, M., Kupryjanowicz, M. Lake–peat bog transformation recorded in the sediments of the Stare Biele mire (Northeastern Poland). Hydrobiologia 631, 143–154 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-009-9807-8
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