Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water

Foreword: A virtual congress on palaeolimnology—palaeolimnological proxies as tools for environmental reconstruction in fresh water.- Review of dated Late Quaternary palaeolimnological records in the Carpathian Region, east-central Europe.- Palaeolimnology of the last crater lake in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains: a multiproxy study of Holocene hydrological changes.- Subfossil diatoms and chironomids along an altitudinal gradient in the High Tatra Mountain lakes: a multi-proxy record of past environmental trends.- Palaeoclimatic signals and anthropogenic disturbances from the peatbog at Nagybárkány (North Hungary).- Late Pleistocene-early Holocene transition recorded in the sediments of a former shallow lake in the Czech Republic.- A multi-proxy Late-glacial palaeoenvironmental record from Lake Bled, Slovenia.- Lake-peat bog transformation recorded in the sediments of the Stare Biele mire (Northeastern Poland).- Diatoms as a proxy in reconstructing the Holocene environmental changes in the south-western Baltic Sea: the lower Rega River Valley sedimentary record.- Reconstruction of human influence during the last two centuries on two small oxbow lakes near Warsaw (Poland).- Larval chaoborid mandibles in surface sediments of small shallow lakes in Finland: implications for palaeolimnology.- Holocene climate on the Modoc Plateau, northern California, USA: the view from Medicine Lake.- Multiproxy study of anthropogenic and climatic changes in the last two millennia from a small mire in central Poland.- Sedimentary multiproxy response to hydroclimatic variability in Lagunillo del Tejo (Spain).- Basin elevation and salinity changes: late Holocene development of two freshwater lakes at the Karelian White Sea coast, northwest Russia as reflected in their sediments.- Anapproach to the recent environmental history of Pilica Piaski spring (southern Poland) using diatoms.- Diatom-inferred trophic history of IJsselmeer (The Netherlands).- Palaeolimnology of Lake Hess (Patagonia, Argentina): multi-proxy analyses of short sediment cores.- A multi-proxy paleolimnological reconstruction of trophic state reference conditions for stratified carbonate-rich lakes in northern Germany.