Open AccessLiving organisms and sedimentary remains from high mountain lakes in the Alps
Author(s) -
Aldo Marchetto,
Angela Boggero,
Diego Fontaneto,
Andrea Lami,
André F. Lotter,
Marina Manca,
Julieta Massaferro,
Rosario Mosello,
Simona Musazzi,
Ulrike Nickus,
Roland Psenner,
Michela Rogora,
Sanna Sorvari Stundet,
Evzen Stuchlik,
Tartari Gabriele A,
Hansjörg Thies,
Monica Tolotti
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of limnology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.465
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1723-8633
pISSN - 1129-5767
DOI - 10.4081/jlimnol.2021.2036
Subject(s) - benthic zone , limnology , paleolimnology , invertebrate , bedrock , phytoplankton , algae , ecology , zooplankton , oceanography , vegetation (pathology) , lake ecosystem , geology , environmental science , aquatic ecosystem , diatom , habitat , geomorphology , biology , medicine , pathology , nutrient
We publish a data set of environmental and biological data collected in 2000 during the ice-free period in high mountain lakes located above the local timberline in the Alps, in Italy, Switzerland and Austria. Environmental data include coordinates, geographical attributes and detailed information on vegetation, bedrock and land use in lake catchments. Chemical analyses of a sample for each lake collected at the lake surface in Summer 2000 are also reported. Biological data include phytoplankton (floating algae and cyanobacteria), zooplankton (floating animals), macroinvertebrates (aquatic organisms visible to the naked eye living in contact with sediments on lake bottom), benthic diatoms. Diatoms, cladocera and chironomids remains and algal and bacterial pigments were also analysed in lake sediments.