A rapid late Holocene lake ecosystem shift driven by climate change: evidence from the first cladoceran record from an alpine lake in northern China

Li, Fanyi; Liu, Jianbao; Chen, Guangjie; Kong, Lingyang; Zhang, Xiaosen

doi:10.1016/j.scib.2019.12.010

Cited by 10 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 14 publications

(16 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…As an alpine lake, Lake Mayinghai has been relatively uninfluenced by local human activities in the past, and there is little direct human activity around the lake today. In addition, the evidence for human activities in the region postdates 1 kyr BP and prior human activities were limited (Li et al, ). Importantly, in this study, we are concerned with evidence for climatic change at 3 kyr BP, and the impact of human activities can be ignored.…”

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Abrupt Late Holocene Monsoon Climate Change on the Status of an Alpine Lake in North China

et al. 2020

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The late Holocene is generally regarded as an interval of monsoon recession and decreased precipitation in North China. However, the extent to which this affected the status of lakes in North China is unclear. In the study, we analyzed multiple proxies (δ13C, magnetic susceptibility [χlf], and exogenous element concentrations) from Lake Mayinghai, an undisturbed alpine lake in North China. We also compared the results with previously published paleoenvironmental records from the Chinese Loess Plateau. We aimed to determine the extent of the influence of variations in the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) on the status of Lake Mayinghai during the late Holocene. The results demonstrate that negative δ13C values at Lake Mayinghai correspond to high sedimentary tree pollen content and high reconstructed precipitation, indicating that variations in δ13C likely reflect variations in vegetation and the EASM in North China. A comparison of the δ13C record with other proxies from the same core reveals an abrupt change in the EASM at ~3 kyr before present (BP), which is also evident in other regional climate records from the Chinese Loess Plateau. The rapid decline in EASM intensity at ~3 kyr BP is also consistent with changes in the status of Lake Mayinghai, Lake Gonghai, Lake Ganhai, and Lake Daihai, in that these lakes underwent an abrupt retreat after 3 kyr BP, demonstrating that the rapid decline in EASM intensity at ~3 kyr BP had a large impact on lake evolution in North China.

show abstract

Section: Study Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Abrupt Late Holocene Monsoon Climate Change on the Status of an Alpine Lake in North China

et al. 2020

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Comparison of Holocene pigment data from Lake Mayinghai (A-C) with Ti/Ca (D) (Shen et al, 2018;Cheng et al, 2020) and C/N (E) (Cheng et al, 2020;Li et al, 2020) from the same core, terrestrial vegetation biomes from nearby Lake Gonghai (F) (Xu et al, 2017), mean annual precipitation in northern China (mainly East Asian summer monsoon precipitation) (G) (Chen et al, 2015) and global mean annual temperature (H) (Kaufman et al, 2020).…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the C/N ratio (Cheng et al, 2020;Li et al, 2020) shows that there was no clear change in terrestrial organic input during the mid-Holocene (Figure 4E), the Ti/Ca ratio, an excellent proxy for terrestrial siliciclastic input (Shen et al, 2018;Cheng et al, 2020), shows that there was fluctuating but generally higher inorganic elemental input during the mid-Holocene (Figure 4D). This may be linked to high organic matter decomposition and high chemical weathering during the process of soil development under optimal climatic conditions.…”

Section: Cyanobacterial Response To Mid-holocene Climate and Environm...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Synergistic warming- and catchment-driven mid-Holocene cyanobacterial development: Pigment evidence from shallow eutrophic Lake Mayinghai on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Zhang

Su²,

Zhang³

et al. 2023

Front. Earth Sci.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The current lake environmental problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms cannot be mitigated effectively despite numerous eutrophication control strategies, and climate warming may have been considered as a potential key driver. However, it is still unclear how climate change and associated natural processes influence cyanobacterial development. Here we use a sedimentary pigment record from a remote, alpine, small and eutrophic lake (Lake Mayinghai) on the Chinese Loess Plateau and take the mid-Holocene as an analog to explore the possible influences of temperature, precipitation and terrestrial vegetation on in-lake and catchment processes, algal compositional changes and cyanobacterial development. The pigment data indirectly suggest that a distinctly low β-carotene to chlorophyll a ratio during the mid-Holocene is likely due to an increase in non-nitrogen-fixing colonial coccoid cyanobacteria at the expense of nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria. There are two probable synergistic driving mechanisms, of which one is high temperatures and associated increased lake thermal stratification and the other is high inorganic nitrogen supply and resultant increased lake nitrogen to phosphorus ratio. This study provides implications for the potential influences of future climate change on cyanobacterial development under a warmer, wetter and re-forested environment on the Chinese Loess Plateau.

show abstract

Climate change as the dominant driver of recent ecological changes in a semi-arid alpine lake from the Chinese Loess Plateau

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A rapid late Holocene lake ecosystem shift driven by climate change: evidence from the first cladoceran record from an alpine lake in northern China

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Impact of Abrupt Late Holocene Monsoon Climate Change on the Status of an Alpine Lake in North China

Impact of Abrupt Late Holocene Monsoon Climate Change on the Status of an Alpine Lake in North China

Synergistic warming- and catchment-driven mid-Holocene cyanobacterial development: Pigment evidence from shallow eutrophic Lake Mayinghai on the Chinese Loess Plateau

Climate change as the dominant driver of recent ecological changes in a semi-arid alpine lake from the Chinese Loess Plateau

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About