Palaeolimnological studies of the eutrophication of volcanic Lake Albano (Central Italy) |
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| Authors: | Andrea Lami Frank Niessen Piero Guilizzoni Julieta Masaferro Claudio A Belis |
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| Institution: | (1) C.N.R. Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia, 28048 Verbania-Pallanza, Italy;(2) Geologisches Institut, ETH-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland;(3) PROGEBA, CONICET, Apart. n. 47, Melipal, 8400 S.C. de Bariloche, Argentina;(4) Instituto de Limnologia  Dr R. A. Ringuelet , CC 712, 1900 La Plata, Argentina;(5) Present address: Alfred Wegner Institute for Polar and Marine Research, P.O. box 120161, D-27515 Bremerhaven, Germany |
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| Abstract: | We use palaeolimnological techniques to reconstruct the eutrophication history of a volcanic lake (Lake Albano, central Italy) over the past three centuries. The presence of annual varves down to the bottom of the core (c. 1700 A.D.) indicated the lack of bioturbation and likely long-term meromixis. Sedimentation rates were estimated by varve counts (calcite/diatom couplets), indicating a mean rate of 0.15 cm yr–1. The reconstruction of eutrophication was traced using past populations of algal and photosynthetic bacteria (through their fossil pigment), and geochemistry, as well as fossil remains of chironomids. Phaeophorbidea and the red carotenoid astaxanthin were used to detect past zooplankton development.The first sign of trophic change related to human activities is datedc. 1870 A.D. From that period onward a sharp increase of authigenic CaCO3, nitrogen, N:P ratio, and dinoxanthin, a characteristic carotenoid of Chrysophyceae and Dinophyceae, is observed.Chironomid analyses showed the near absence of a deep water fauna throughout the core length. The populations of chironomid larvae are restricted to oxygenated littoral zones. In fact, the few fossil remains found are primarily of littoral origin, representing shallow water midges that were transported to profundal waters. The reduction of total chironomid in the uppermost layers of the core is to be related to human land uses. |
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| Keywords: | palaeolimnology eutrophication core analysis sediments algal pigment bacterial pigments chironomids volcanic lake Italy |
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