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During the Holocene most West Greenland lakes passed from an early eutrophic stage, rich in both flora and fauna, through a mesotrophic to an oligotrophic stage with very low productivity. Temperature conditions were limiting factors only in the very beginning, whereas chemical factors alone were decisive later on.
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Fredskild, B. (1983). The Holocene development of some low and high arctic Greenland lakes. 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_36
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