Abstract East Taihu Lake (the south-eastern portion of Taihu Lake in China) suffers from eutrophication. The study of lacustrine subfossil zooplankton assemblages can be used to reconstruct the long-term evolution… Click to show full abstract
Abstract East Taihu Lake (the south-eastern portion of Taihu Lake in China) suffers from eutrophication. The study of lacustrine subfossil zooplankton assemblages can be used to reconstruct the long-term evolution of lake water environments. In particular, the analysis of subfossil Cladocera can indicate historical changes in aquatic plants, water level, trophic states, and human disturbance in lakes. In this study, we correlated downcores changes in cladoceran assemblages with several geochemical proxies to identify the response of Cladocera to environmental change in East Taihu Lake over the past one hundred years. Redundancy analysis (RDA) and Pearson correlation analysis identified significant correlations between total phosphorus (TP) and Bosmina spp. (total), B. (E.) longispina, and Chydorus cf. sphaericus (correlation coefficients: −0.720 (P
Journal Title: Catena
Year Published: 2020
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