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Co-evolution of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in the Holocene Baltic Sea
Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, The Royal
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands
present address: Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHZ), Biogeoscience
Group, Zurich, Switzerland
Marcel T. J. van der Meer
Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, The Royal
Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, the Netherlands
Timothy I. Eglinton
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETHZ), Biogeoscience
Group, Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
Here we study the elemental signatures of plant wax compounds as well as molecules from algae and bacteria to understand how water sources changed over the last 11 000 years in the northeastern part of Europe surrounding the Baltic Sea. Our results show diversity in plant and aquatic microorganisms following the melting of the large ice sheet that covered northern Europe as the regional climate continued to warm. A shift in water source from ice melt to rain also occurred around the same time.
Here we study the elemental signatures of plant wax compounds as well as molecules from algae...
