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Long-term trends in diatom diversity and palaeoproductivity: a 16 000-year multidecadal record from Lake Baikal, southern Siberia
Department of Geography, Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT,
UK
Vivian A. Felde
Department of Biological Sciences, and Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research,
University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803, Bergen 5020, Norway
David W. Morley
Department of Geography, Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL, London, WC1E 6BT,
UK
Natalia Piotrowska
Division of Geochronology and Environmental Isotopes, Institute of Physics – CSE, Silesian University
of Technology, Konarskiego 22B, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Patrick Rioual
Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment, Institute of Geology
& Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029,
China
Alistair W. R. Seddon
Department of Biological Sciences, and Bjerknes Centre of Climate Research,
University of Bergen, P.O. Box 7803, Bergen 5020, Norway
George E. A. Swann
School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham,
NG7 2RD, UK
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Short summary
We investigated the diversity of algae called diatoms in Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake in the world, because algae sit at the base of aquatic foodwebs and provide energy (in the form of primary production) for other organisms to use. Diatom diversity and primary production have been influenced by both long-term and abrupt climate change over the past 16 000 years. The shape of these responses appears to be time-period specific.
We investigated the diversity of algae called diatoms in Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest...
