Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published online 2017-4
Late Quaternary salinity variation in the Lake of Siebleben (Thuringia,Central Germany) – Methods of palaeoenvironmental analysis using Ostracoda and pollen
We test several methods of ostracod-based palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using indicator species approach, mutual ecological/climatic range methods, transfer functions, modern analogue technique and morphological variation within Cyprideis torosa in reconstructing the site evolution of a late Quaternary small lake basin in Thuringia, Central Germany. Sediment sections containing a diverse ostracod fauna were studied and compared with those from modern water bodies of Thuringia. Palynological investigations were executed to reconstruct the environmental conditions in the catchment area and for a obtaining a biostratigraphical framework. The brackish water ostracod Cyprideis torosa as well as the foraminifer Haplophragmoides indicate phases of saline groundwater influence, fed by salt bearing sediments of the Triassic basement. The accompanying freshwater ostracod fauna, however, reflects only low variations of salinity and temperature. Environmental changes in salinity, temperature and ecological stability indicated by microfossils and pollen are caused by an interplay of climatic shifts and the local geological and hydrological setting.
BartensteinH (1939) Agglutinierende Brackwasser-Foraminiferen in Quell-Tümpeln Mitteldeutschlands. Senckenbergiana lethaea21(3–4): 374–378.
2.
BehreK-E (1981) The interpretation of anthropogenic indicators in pollen diagrams. Pollen et Spores23: 225–245.
3.
BeugH-J (2004) Leitfaden der Pollenbestimmung für Mitteleuropa und angrenzende Gebiete. München: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 542 pp.
4.
BosJAAvan GeelBvan der PlichtJ. (2007) Preboreal climate oscillations in Europe: Wiggle-match dating and synthesis of Dutch high-resolution multi-proxy records. Quaternary Science Reviews26: 1927–1950.
5.
DavisBASBrewerSStevensonAC. (2003) The temperature of Europe during the Holocene reconstructed from pollen data. Quaternary Science Reviews22: 1701–1716.
6.
DiebelK (1965) Eine neue Limnocythere-Art (Ostracoda) aus dem Interglacial I1 nördlich Saßnitz (Insel Rügen). Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften7: 727–736.
7.
DiebelK (1968) Neue Limnocythere-Arten (Ostracoda) aus dem deutschen Pleistozän. Monatsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften10(7): 519–538.
8.
EllenbergHWeber DüllHE. (1992) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. In: Scripta Geobotanica. 2nd Edition, vol. 18, pp. 2–358.
9.
FaegriKIversenJ (1989) Textbook of Pollen Analysis. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
10.
FirbasF (1949) Spät- und nacheiszeitliche Waldgeschichte Mitteleuropas nördlich der Alpen. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar1: 106–107.
11.
FrenzelP (1991) Die Ostracodenfauna der tieferen Teile der Ostsee-Boddengewässer Vorpommerns. Meyniana43: 151–175.
12.
FrenzelPViehbergFA (2004) Checklist of Recent und Quaternary ostracods (Crustacea) from freshwater, brackish and marine environments in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, NE Germany. Revista Española de Micropaleontología36(1): 29–55.
13.
FrenzelPKeyserDViehbergFA (2010) An illustrated key and (palaeo)ecological primer for recent to postglacial Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the Baltic Sea. Boreas39: 567–575.
14.
FrenzelPSchulzeIPintA (2012) Noding of Cyprideis torosa valves (Ostracoda): A proxy for palaeosalinity?International Review of Hydrobiology4: 314–329.
15.
FuhrmannR (2006) Die rezente Ostrakodenfauna Mitteldeutschlands (Vorläufige Mitteilung). Mauritiana19(3): 427–438.
16.
FuhrmannR (2013) Atlas quartärer und rezenter Ostrakoden Mitteldeutschlands. Mauritiana15: 320.
17.
GreifeldI (1966) Die geologische Geschichte der Siebleber Senke aufgrund von mikropaläontologischen Untersuchungen (unpublished). Diploma Thesis, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin.
18.
GriffithsHIEvansJG (1995) The Late-glacial and early Holocene colonisation of the British Isles by freshwater ostracods. In: RíhaJ (ed.) Ostracoda and Biostratigraphy. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema Publisher, pp. 291–302.
19.
HeipC (1976) The life-cycle of Cyprideis torosa (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Oecologia24: 229–245.
20.
HorneDJ (2007) A mutual temperature range method for quaternary palaeoclimatic analysis using European nonmarine Ostracoda. Quaternary Science Reviews26: 1398–1415.
21.
HorneDJMezquitaF (2008) Palaeoclimatic applications of large databases: Developing and testing methods of palaeotemperature reconstruction using nonmarine ostracods. Senckenbergiana lethaea88: 93–112.
22.
HorneDJCurryBBMesquita-JoanesF (2012) Chapter 5 – Mutual climatic range methods for Quaternary ostracods. In: HorneDJHolmesJARodriguez-LazaroJ. (eds) Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change (Developments in Quaternary Sciences), vol. 17. London: Elsevier, pp. 65–84.
23.
HorneDJCurryBBDelormeLD. (2011) OMEGA: The ostracod metadatabase of environmental and geographical attributes. Joannea Geologie und Paläontologie11(8): 80–84.
24.
IglM (2000) Untersuchungen zur spat- und postglazialen Fluß- und Landschaftsgenese im mittleren Werratal unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Subrosionssenken. Dissertation, Universität Jena, Jena.
25.
JacometSKreuzA (1999) Archäobotanik. Stuttgart: Ulmer Verlag, 368 pp.
26.
JanzE (1994) Zur Bedeutung des Schalenmerkmals, Marginalrippen’ der Gattung Ilyocypris (Ostracoda, Crustacea). Stuttgart Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B206: 1–19.
27.
LangeE (1966) Zur spätglazialen Vegetation des Thüringer Beckens. Hercynia3(4): 400–406.
28.
LittTStebichM (1999) Bio- and chronostratigraphy of the Lateglacial in the Eifel region, Germany. Quaternary International61: 5–16.
29.
MeischC (2000) Crustacea: Ostracoda. In: SchwoerbelJZwickP (eds) Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, vol. 8, no. 3. Heidelberg and Berlin: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, p. 522.
30.
MeschnerS (2008) Geoarchäologische Untersuchungen zur holozänen Landschaftsentwicklung im Thüringer Becken am Beispiel Mühlberger Ried (unpublished). Diploma Thesis, University of Jena, Jena.
31.
MoorePDWebbJACollinsonME (1991) Pollen Analysis. Washington, DC: Blackwell, 217 pp.
32.
PintAFrenzelPFuhrmannR. (2012) Distribution of Cyprideis torosa (Ostracoda) in Quaternary athalassic sediments in Germany and its application for palaeoecological reconstructions. International Review of Hydrobiology4: 330–355.
33.
PintAFrenzelPHorneDJ. (2015) Ostracoda from inland waterbodies with saline influence in Central Germany: Implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology419: 37–46.
34.
ReilleM (1992) Pollen et spores d’Europe et d’Afrique du Nord. Marseille: Laboratoire de Botanique historique et Palynologie.
35.
ReimerPJBardEBaylissA. (2013) IntCal13 and MARINE13 radiocarbon age calibration curves 0–50000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon55(4): 1869–1887.
36.
RosenfeldAVesperB (1977) The variability of the sieve pores in Recent and fossil species of Cyprideis torosa (Jones, 1850), as an indicator for salinity and paleosalinity. In: LöfflerHDanilopolD (eds) Aspects of Ecology and Zoogeography of Recent and Fossil Ostracoda (Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Ostracods). The Hague: Dr. W. Junk Publishers, pp. 55–69.
37.
SchneiderH (2006) Die spät- und postglaziale Vegetationsgeschichte des oberen und mittleren Werratales. Paläobotanische Untersuchungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung anthropogener Einflüsse. Dissertationes Botanicae403: 230.
38.
SchneiderH (2012) Eine kritische Betrachtung der palynologischen Untersuchungen in Thüringen vor dem Hintergrund der biostratigrafischen Definitionen nach Firbas (1949). In: StobbeA (ed.) Verzweigungen. Frankfurter Archäologische Schriften, 18: 249–262.
39.
SchneiderH (2014) Der Stand der palynologischen Forschung in Thüringen vor dem Hintergrund der Buchenausbreitung und deren Ursache. Artenschutzreport32: 44–48.
40.
SchneiderHHöferDTrogC. (2016) Holocene landscape development along the Portuguese Algarve coast – A high resolution palynological approach. Quaternary International407: 47–63.
41.
SchusterCBellstedtRSchmidtK (2010) Flora, Fauna und Entwicklung der Binnensalzstellen im Wartburgkreis. Naturschutz im Wartburgkreis16: 1–16.
42.
SeidelG (2003) Geologie von Thüringen. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 601 pp.
43.
Van HartenD (1979) Some new shell characters to diagnose the species of the Ilyocypris gibba-biplicata-bradyi group and their ecological significance. In: Serbian Geological Society (ed.) Taxonomy, Biostratigraphy and Distribution of Ostracodes. Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Ostracodes. Belgrade: Serbian Geological Society, pp. 71–76.
44.
VannièreBColombaroliDChapronE. (2008) Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: The Holocene record of Lago dell’Accesa (Tuscany, Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews27: 1181–1196.
45.
ViehbergFA (2006) Freshwater ostracod assemblages and their relationship to environmental variables in waters from northeast Germany. Hydrobiologia571(1): 213–224.
46.
ViehbergFAMesquita-JoanesF (2012) Chapter 4: Quantitative transfer function approaches in palaeoclimatic reconstruction using quaternary ostracods. In: HorneDJHolmesJARodriguez-LazaroJ. (eds) Ostracoda as Proxies for Quaternary Climate Change (Developments in Quaternary Sciences), vol. 17. London: Elsevier, pp. 47–64.
47.
VoigtM (2010) Palynologische Untersuchungen zum holozänen Landschaftswandel im Umfeld der Siebleber Senke im Kreis Gotha (unpuplished). Examensarbeit, Universität Jena, Jena.
48.
WennrichVMengSSchmiedlG (2007) Foraminifers from Holocene sediments of two inland brackish lakes in central Germany. The Journal of Foraminiferal Research37(4): 318–326.
