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author Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel
Ritter, Catarina
Abbott, Mark
Hernández, Armand
Pimentel, Adriano
Płóciennik, Mateusz
Violeta, Berlajolli
Kotrys, Bartosz
Pontevedra Pombal, Xabier
Souto, Martin
Giralt, Santiago
Gonçalves, Vítor
author_facet Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel
Ritter, Catarina
Abbott, Mark
Hernández, Armand
Pimentel, Adriano
Płóciennik, Mateusz
Violeta, Berlajolli
Kotrys, Bartosz
Pontevedra Pombal, Xabier
Souto, Martin
Giralt, Santiago
Gonçalves, Vítor
collection Datos científicos de ciencias marinas y ambientales
contents The location of the Azores Archipelago makes this group of islands an excellent setting for investigating past long-term temperature and precipitation changes in the central North Atlantic region. Lake Prata (37º48'23''N, 25°44'12''W; 520 m a.s.l.) is found on the island of São Miguel, more precisely in the western sector of the Picos fissure system, 5 km SE of the Sete Cidades caldera, and it fills the crater of a scoria cone older than 5000 years. The lake is currently a Sphagnum/Eleocaris-dominated peatland. In January 2021, a 4.5-m long core was collected from Lake Prata using a Russian corer with a 50 cm long and 7 cm diameter sampler. The core was packed in PVC trays and covered in plastic film before being transported to the CIBIO's paleolimnology laboratory (University of Azores). The core was dated using ¹⁴C and produced a multi-proxy dataset of geochemical and biological analyses that we used to uncover paleoenvironmental changes on Lake Prata in the last ca. 1200 years.
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spellingShingle Chironomid determination of sediment core from Lake Prata (São Miguel, Azores, Portugal)
Raposeiro, Pedro Miguel
Ritter, Catarina
Abbott, Mark
Hernández, Armand
Pimentel, Adriano
Płóciennik, Mateusz
Violeta, Berlajolli
Kotrys, Bartosz
Pontevedra Pombal, Xabier
Souto, Martin
Giralt, Santiago
Gonçalves, Vítor
Apsectrotanypus trifascipennis; Bryophaenocladius; Calculated; Ceratopogonidae; Chaetocladius piger-type; Chironomidae, head capsules; chironomid composition; Chironomus anthracinus-type; Corynoneura arctica-type; Counting; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Lake_Prata; Limnophyes; Macropelopia; Measured; Micropsectra contracta-type; Micropsectra-type A; Orthocladius-type S; Paratanytarsus penicillatus-type; Psectrocladius limbatellus-type; Pseudosmittia; Rarefaction; RUSC; Russian corer; Sao Miguel, Azores Islands, Portugal; Sergentia coracina-type; Standard error; Tanytarsini indeterminata; Temperature, air, July; Zavrelimyia
The location of the Azores Archipelago makes this group of islands an excellent setting for investigating past long-term temperature and precipitation changes in the central North Atlantic region. Lake Prata (37º48'23''N, 25°44'12''W; 520 m a.s.l.) is found on the island of São Miguel, more precisely in the western sector of the Picos fissure system, 5 km SE of the Sete Cidades caldera, and it fills the crater of a scoria cone older than 5000 years. The lake is currently a Sphagnum/Eleocaris-dominated peatland. In January 2021, a 4.5-m long core was collected from Lake Prata using a Russian corer with a 50 cm long and 7 cm diameter sampler. The core was packed in PVC trays and covered in plastic film before being transported to the CIBIO's paleolimnology laboratory (University of Azores). The core was dated using ¹⁴C and produced a multi-proxy dataset of geochemical and biological analyses that we used to uncover paleoenvironmental changes on Lake Prata in the last ca. 1200 years.
title Chironomid determination of sediment core from Lake Prata (São Miguel, Azores, Portugal)
topic Apsectrotanypus trifascipennis; Bryophaenocladius; Calculated; Ceratopogonidae; Chaetocladius piger-type; Chironomidae, head capsules; chironomid composition; Chironomus anthracinus-type; Corynoneura arctica-type; Counting; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Lake_Prata; Limnophyes; Macropelopia; Measured; Micropsectra contracta-type; Micropsectra-type A; Orthocladius-type S; Paratanytarsus penicillatus-type; Psectrocladius limbatellus-type; Pseudosmittia; Rarefaction; RUSC; Russian corer; Sao Miguel, Azores Islands, Portugal; Sergentia coracina-type; Standard error; Tanytarsini indeterminata; Temperature, air, July; Zavrelimyia
url https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.971355