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High-Resolution Lacustrine Records of Late Holocene Hydroclimate of the Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East

Version 1 : Received: 2 May 2023 / Approved: 3 May 2023 / Online: 3 May 2023 (04:15:37 CEST)

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Razjigaeva, N.; Ganzey, L.; Grebennikova, T.; Kopoteva, T.; Klimin, M.; Arslanov, K.; Lyashchevskaya, M.; Panichev, A.; Lupakov, S. High-Resolution Lacustrine Records of the Late Holocene Hydroclimate of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russian Far East. Biology 2023, 12, 913. Razjigaeva, N.; Ganzey, L.; Grebennikova, T.; Kopoteva, T.; Klimin, M.; Arslanov, K.; Lyashchevskaya, M.; Panichev, A.; Lupakov, S. High-Resolution Lacustrine Records of the Late Holocene Hydroclimate of the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Russian Far East. Biology 2023, 12, 913.

Abstract

There is little information about moisture changes in different altitudinal belts in mountainous regions of the Southern Russian Far East. We present ecological-taxonomic composition of the diatom flora, the botanical composition of peat of small mountain lake/mire complexes located in the Central Sikhote-Alin within large landslides on the paleovolcano slopes are identified. Frequent changes in diatom assemblages and peat-forming plants indicate unstable hydroclimatic conditions with varying degrees of watering and dry condition up to complete overgrowth of the lakes. Frequent change of sphagnum mosses with different trophic preferences was established. The chronology is based on 11 radiocarbon dates. Accumulation rates reached up to 1.9 mm/year, the temporal resolution for the reconstructions is up to 30–40 years. The tendencies of lake evolution depended on different-scale hydroclimatic changes for the last 4400 yr. The most detailed data for the last 2600 yr were obtained from the Nizhnee Lake sequence, more sensitive to climatic changes. The main reason for the change in the hydrological regime of the lakes was variations in precipitation during short-term climatic changes. The sediment record moisture fluctuations are relatively well correlated with regional patterns reflecting summer monsoon intensity and cyclogenesis activity.

Keywords

mountain lake/mire complexes; diatoms; botanical composition; inundation and dry periods; monsoon; cyclogenesis

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

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