Disentangling late-Holocene climate and land use impacts on an Austrian alpine lake using seasonal temperature anomalies,ice-cover,sedimentology, and pollen tracers |
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| Authors: | Roland Schmidt Monika Roth Richard Tessadri Kaarina Weckström |
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| Institution: | 1.Institute of Limnology,Austrian Academy of Sciences,Mondsee,Austria;2.Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography,University of Innsbruck,Innsbruck,Austria |
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| Abstract: | Major and trace elements, minerals and grain-size were analysed from a sediment core covering the last 4,000 years of an Austrian
Alpine lake (Oberer Landschitzsee, ObLAN, 2,076 m a.s.l.). These analyses were combined with autumn and spring temperature
anomalies and ice-cover estimated from a diatom and chrysophyte cyst, thermistor-based regional calibration dataset and selected
pollen markers published previously. Diatom-inferred pH (Di-pH) and DOC (Di-DOC) completed the multi-proxy approach, which,
together with ordination techniques (PCA and RDA), helped (1) to confirm proposed climatic patterns and hypotheses, and (2)
to disentangle the complex interactions between climatic and anthropogenic impacts. Shifts in chemical and physical weathering,
erosion, production, lake stratification, redox potentials and air pollution were the major processes that have affected Oberer
Landschitzsee in relation to climate, lake/catchment interactions, and human impact. Geochemistry supported the finding that
the four waves of high-altitude land use (Early to Middle Bronze, ca. 1,800–1,300 B.C.; Late Bronze to Hallstatt, ca. 1,000–500
B.C.; Celtic to Roman, ca. 300 B.C.–400 A.D.; and Medieval, ca. 1,000–1,600 A.D.) were coupled mainly with warm periods. Increased
production, onset of lake stratification, and the deterioration of hypolimnetic oxygen conditions were the major changes governing
in-lake processes during climate warming. They resulted in specific element assemblages associated with organic matter accumulation
(Br), oxygen depletion (As, Ga, Cu, S), and changes in redox (Fe/Mn). The Se/Di-DOC ratio was introduced to track shifts between
in-lake production and allochthonous sources. Nutrient loading from pastures, coupled with climate warming, could explain
that in-lake production was highest during Roman and Medieval land use. Lithogenic elements mainly originated from chemical
weathering of silicate bedrock and they increased when intense land-use was coupled with climate deterioration and/or increased
humidity. These perturbations were highest during a High Medieval climate fluctuation around 1,000 A.D. The association of
sand with LOI and C/N and the decoupling of sand from quartz and feldspar separates erosion from physical weathering. Di-DOC,
S, and C/N showed hybrid characters in relation to climate and human impact. The mineral proportions indicated gradients in
relation to weathering, snow-cover and running waters, as well as vegetation. Air pollution by metallurgic industries, starting
during the High Medieval and culminating during the Late Medieval, caused lead accumulation and could have contributed to
As and S enrichment. Corresponding features in the distribution of selected elements and pollen tracers, as well as changes
in mineral proportions, supported the hypotheses of shifts in seasonal climate and an overall trend towards more continental
climate conditions since Medieval times. |
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| Keywords: | Alpine lake Geochemistry and mineralogy Pollen tracers Diatom and chrysophyte cyst inference models Air temperature anomalies Ice-cover PCA and RDA |
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