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Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada

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Part of the book series: Developments in Hydrobiology ((DIHY,volume 15))

Abstract

The recent history of Little Round Lake, a small meromictic lake in southeastern Ontario, is considered. Pollen analyses were used to identify past changes in terrestrial vegetation, whilst limnological conditions were interpreted on the basis of diatom and chrysophyte microfossils. Contemporaneous with the arrival of European settlers (ca. A.D. 1850), the predisturbance assemblage of oligotrophicCyclotelladiatoms was replaced bySynedraspp., which then succeeded to a eutrophic flora dominated byStephanodiscus hantzschii. Meanwhile, synuracean algae were almost completely excluded. Over the last 30 years, the algal microfossils indicate that the lake underwent a marked return to oligotrophy. Evidence is presented which suggests that this shift was related to the cultural enhancement of meromixis by the seepage of road salt.

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  1. Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

    John P. Smol & S. R. Brown

  2. Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A OE8, Canada

    R. N. McNeely

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Smol, J.P., Brown, S.R., McNeely, R.N. (1983). Cultural disturbances and trophic history of a small meromictic lake from central Canada. In: Meriläinen, J., Huttunen, P., Battarbee, R.W. (eds) Paleolimnology. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7290-2_20

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