Evidence for rapid avian-mediated foraminiferal colonization of Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba, during the Holocene Hypsithermal |
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| Authors: | R Timothy Patterson W Brian McKillop Sid Kroker Erik Nielsen Eduard G Reinhardt |
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| Institution: | (1) Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre & Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6;(2) Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature, 190 Rupert Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B 0N2;(3) Quaternary Consultants Ltd., 130 Fort St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 1C7;(4) Manitoba Energy and Mines, 360-1395 Ellice Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3G 3P2 |
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| Abstract: | A Holocene ecological succession was documented using palynological, foraminiferal, and molluscan faunas sampled from an excavated trench on the margin of Bell River Bay, Lake Winnipegosis, Manitoba. The palynological data record the known gradually isostatically-induced shift from aquatic to terrestrial conditions at the site, and clearly delineates the Holocene Hypsithermal maximal warm interval (commencing here about 5500 years BP). Concurrent with this warming the site became occupied by the extinct salt tolerant gastropod Marstonia gelida and the marine foraminifer Cribroelphidium gunteri by at least 5430 years BP. Water fowl-assisted colonization of non-marine habitats by foraminifera has previously been suggested as a dispersal mechanism for other non-marine foraminiferal occurrences. However, as this relatively warm-water foraminifer (presently found as far north as Cape Cod, MA on the Atlantic USA coast, and Vancouver, BC on the Canadian Pacific coast but also found in Canadian Maritime provinces during the Hypsithermal) did not inhabit the area either prior to or following the Hypsithermal warm interval, this occurrence indicates the efficiency with which foraminifera can utilize non-selective avian transport to colonize new non-marine and marine habitats. It may be that only a few years were required for colonization of the site to occur (2000–3000 km distant from native populations); this suggests that avian transport is a much more important foraminiferal dispersal mechanism than previously realized. The appearance of foraminifera at this site may also constrain models designed to determine the time required for hydraulically injected glacial freshwater to be flushed from normally brine producing aquifers in the region. |
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| Keywords: | non-marine foraminifera avian transport Hypsithermal Mollusca palynology |
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