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Paleolimnological studies which included analyses of diatoms, fossil pigments and physico-chemical characteristics of bottom sediments have been used to describe the limnological history of Racze Lake. The influx of terrigenous material into the lake have been determined on the basis of stratigraphy of elements associated with mineral content. The successively eroded soils as well as process of chemical erosion caused increase leaching of metals Mg, Fe, Al into the lake basin. However the concentration of these metals finally deposited in bottom sediments was also effected by the oxygen regime at the sediment-water interface. Both ratios, chlorophyll derivatives to total carotenoids (CD:TC) and Fe:Mn indicated hypolimnetic oxygen depletion in the middle part of the profile. The development of blue-green algal population, estimated by the ratio epiphasic to hypophasic carotenoids (EC:HC) was correlated with periods of redox conditions in the lake. The pH changes ranged from 6.5 to 7.7. The most important factors effecting pH changes were inflow of mineral matter from the watershed and structural changes in the littoral biocenosis.
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Rybak, M., Rybak, I. & Zadrozna, M. Paleolimnology of a small oligotrophic lake on Wolin Island, Baltic Sea, Poland. Hydrobiologia 146, 169–179 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00008765
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