Lake Sediments: An Invaluable Archive of Earth Critical Zone Trajectories
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 41464
Special Issue Editors
Interests: paleoenvironmental reconstructions from lake archives: paleohydrology, climate, anthropogenic impact, metallic contamination
Interests: paleoclimate; extreme events; Critical Zone; geochronology; lake and lagoon sediments
Interests: paleoenvironments; human-environment interactions; mountain agro-ecosystems; soil erosion; lake sediment DNA
Special Issue Information
The Earth Critical Zone (ECZ) is the thin layer providing all necessary functions to sustain life on Earth. Understanding the functioning, legacy and long-term trajectories of the ECZ is thus crucial to preserve a safe operating space on Earth. Critical zone processes and their driving mechanisms, including climate (temperature, precipitation) and human impacts (pollution, agriculture, erosion) operate on a variety of time and space scales, hence precluding their direct monitoring. Lakes are present all over the world and their sediments collect most of the solid and dissolved fluxes from their catchment. With this issue, we aim at enlightening how lake sediments are invaluable and sometimes, underrated, archives of ECZ. This will concern the identification and long-term reconstruction of forcing mechanisms (climate, geodynamics, human-induced pressures) as well as ECZ reactions, both through the biotic and the abiotic compartments.
Methodological reviews will be particularly welcome in order to provide a valuable amount of technical, methodological and conceptual milestones for future researchers. We are also seeking for papers displaying and/or discussing emergent techniques, from field operations up to the most sophisticated lab analyses. Finally, we are keen to display the advancement in lake sediment-related computing science, including data management, meta-analysis or numerical modelling.
Dr. Fabien Arnaud
Dr. Pierre Sabatier
Dr. Charline Giguet-Covex
Dr. Jean-Philippe Jenny
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Lake sediment
- Earth critical zone
- Socio-ecosystems
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Sediment transfer
- Global change
- Human impacts
- Climate
- Biodiversity
- Geodynamics
- Innovative proxies
- Meta-analysis
- Data management
- Innovative fieldwork tools
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