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Evaporation effects as reflected in freshwaters and ostracod calcite from modern environments in Central and Northeast Yakutia (East Siberia, Russia)

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Taxonomical and geochemical investigations on freshwater ostracods from 15 waters in Central and Northeast (NE) Yakutia have been undertaken in order to estimate their potential usefulness in palaeoenvironmental reconstructions based on regional fossil records. Higher variability in environmental factors such as pH, electrical conductivity, and ionic content was observed in thermokarst-affected lakes in Central Yakutia than in NE Yakutia lakes. Species diversity of freshwater ostracods reached up to eight taxa per lake, mostly dominated by Candona weltneri Hartwig 1899, in Central Yakutia, whereas in NE Yakutian waters the diversity was lower and Candona muelleri jakutica Pietrzeniuk 1977 or Fabaeformiscandona inaequivalvis (Sars 1898) had highest frequencies. Coupled analyses of stable isotopes (δ18O, δ13C) and element ratios (Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca) were performed on both host waters and ostracod calcite, aiming to estimate the modern relationships. Correlations between host waters and ostracod calcite of single species were found for δ18O, δ13C and Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca ratios. The relationships between δ18O, Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios and electrical conductivity (salinity) as an expression of solute concentrations in the waters mainly controlled by evaporation are more complicated but evident, and may be useful in future interpretation of geochemical data from fossil Siberian ostracods.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank their colleagues, who helped to perform a successful field campaign in summer 2005: Nikolai Bosikov (Permafrost Institute Yakutsk), Praskov’ya Gogoleva (Yakutsk State University), Innokentii Fedorov (Khonuu, Momskii National Nature Park) and Frank Kienast (Senckenberg Institute for Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar). We are very grateful to Antje Eulenburg and Andreas Mackensen (Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam and Bremerhaven) as well as to Helga Kemnitz, Sabina Tonn and Jörg Erzinger (GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam) for their support of our analytical work. The work of Larry Lopez at the Japanese–Russian research station Neleger was funded by the Ministry of Education, Sports and Science of Japan through Project RR2002. The paper benefited by English language correction and valuable comments from Candace O’Connor (UAF, Fairbanks, Alaska). The critical and very helpful comments of three anonymous reviewers greatly improved interpretation and relevance of the presented data set.

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  1. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Sebastian Wetterich, Ulrike Herzschuh, Hanno Meyer & Lutz Schirrmeister

  2. Department of Biology and Geography, Yakutsk State University, Belinskogo 58, 677000, Yakutsk, Russia

    Lyudmila Pestryakova

  3. GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Section 3.3, Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    Birgit Plessen

  4. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, 020-8550 18-8, Ueda 3 chome, Morioka, Japan

    C. M. Larry Lopez

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Wetterich, S., Herzschuh, U., Meyer, H. et al. Evaporation effects as reflected in freshwaters and ostracod calcite from modern environments in Central and Northeast Yakutia (East Siberia, Russia). Hydrobiologia 614, 171–195 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-008-9505-y

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