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Lake Sediments: An Invaluable Archive of Earth Critical Zone Trajectories
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Lake Sediments: An Invaluable Archive of Earth Critical Zone Trajectories

A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 45477

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Fabien Arnaud

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Environnement, Dynamique et Territoires de Montagne (EDYTEM), CNRS, Université de Savoie, 73373 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Interests: paleoenvironmental reconstructions from lake archives: paleohydrology, climate, anthropogenic impact, metallic contamination
Dr. Pierre Sabatier

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CNRS, Laboratoire EDYTEM, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Le Bourget du Lac, 73000 Chambéry, France
Interests: paleoclimate; extreme events; Critical Zone; geochronology; lake and lagoon sediments
Dr. Charline Giguet-Covex

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Department Environment, Dynamics and Territories of the Mountains (EDYTEM), UMR 5204 CNRS, University Savoie Mont Blanc, 73370 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Interests: paleoenvironments; human-environment interactions; mountain agro-ecosystems; soil erosion; lake sediment DNA
Dr. Jean-Philippe Jenny

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CARRTEL Limnology Center, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambéry, France
Interests: paleolimnology; global changes; carbon cycle; eutrophication; anthropocene

Special Issue Information

The Earth Critical Zone (ECZ) is the thin layer providing all necessary functions to sustain life on Earth. Understanding the functioning, legacy and long-term trajectories of the ECZ is thus crucial to preserve a safe operating space on Earth. Critical zone processes and their driving mechanisms, including climate (temperature, precipitation) and human impacts (pollution, agriculture, erosion) operate on a variety of time and space scales, hence precluding their direct monitoring. Lakes are present all over the world and their sediments collect most of the solid and dissolved fluxes from their catchment. With this issue, we aim at enlightening how lake sediments are invaluable and sometimes, underrated, archives of ECZ. This will concern the identification and long-term reconstruction of forcing mechanisms (climate, geodynamics, human-induced pressures) as well as ECZ reactions, both through the biotic and the abiotic compartments.  
 
Methodological reviews will be particularly welcome in order to provide a valuable amount of technical, methodological and conceptual milestones for future researchers. We are also seeking for papers displaying and/or discussing emergent techniques, from field operations up to the most sophisticated lab analyses. Finally, we are keen to display the advancement in lake sediment-related computing science, including data management, meta-analysis or numerical modelling.

Dr. Fabien Arnaud
Dr. Pierre Sabatier
Dr. Charline Giguet-Covex
Dr. Jean-Philippe Jenny
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Keywords

  • Lake sediment
  • Earth critical zone
  • Socio-ecosystems
  • Biogeochemical cycles
  • Sediment transfer
  • Global change
  • Human impacts
  • Climate
  • Biodiversity
  • Geodynamics
  • Innovative proxies
  • Meta-analysis
  • Data management
  • Innovative fieldwork tools

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Hyperspectral Core-Logging for Past Primary Productivity Assessment
by Antonin Van Exem, Maxime Debret, Yoann Copard, Kévin Jacq, Charles Verpoorter, Stéphane Marcotte, Benoit Laignel and Boris Vannière
Quaternary 2022, 5(4), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5040053 - 12 Dec 2022
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Past primary productivity is tracked in lake sediments to reconstruct environmental changes. However, the resolution of the routinely used destructive techniques is not suitable for the analysis of a large number of samples due to cost. Non-destructive analysis of chlorophyll-a performed by [...] Read more.
Past primary productivity is tracked in lake sediments to reconstruct environmental changes. However, the resolution of the routinely used destructive techniques is not suitable for the analysis of a large number of samples due to cost. Non-destructive analysis of chlorophyll-a performed by hyperspectral imagery enables the quick determination of indices of past primary productivity. Eighteen indices used in paleo-environmental reconstruction were inventoried to define the best index capable of tracking chlorophyll-a by this technique. All the indices were applied to hyperspectral data measured on the sediment of Lake Bresson, in which detrital organic matter input is likely to skew chlorophyll-a identification, and the results were compared with concentrations measured by a routinely used destructive analysis. The 18 indices all produced a different result and only three indices were positively correlated with chlorophyll-a concentrations (n = 28, p < 0.0001). The detrital organic matter impacts chlorophyll-a characterization and shows the bias produced by the sediment matrix variations. Moreover, artificial modification of the sediment matrix revealed an impact of the mineral phase. To tackle this issue, the indices are normalized by two proxies of the sediment components. This new approach reduces the impact of detrital organic matter, hence the sediment matrix variations also reduce the normalization of the chlorophyll-a indices by a specific proxy of the mineral phase. These results identify the impact of local geochemical features that limit past primary productivity assessment and show the necessity of characterizing the sediment composition prior to tracking the chlorophyll-a by hyperspectral imaging. Full article
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A Review of Event Deposits in Lake Sediments
by Pierre Sabatier, Jasper Moernaut, Sebastien Bertrand, Maarten Van Daele, Katrina Kremer, Eric Chaumillon and Fabien Arnaud
Quaternary 2022, 5(3), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5030034 - 3 Aug 2022
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Event deposits in lake sediments provide invaluable chronicles of geodynamic and climatic natural hazards on multi-millennial timescales. Sediment archives are particularly useful for reconstructing high-impact, low-frequency events, which are rarely observed in instrumental or historical data. However, attributing a trigger mechanism to event [...] Read more.
Event deposits in lake sediments provide invaluable chronicles of geodynamic and climatic natural hazards on multi-millennial timescales. Sediment archives are particularly useful for reconstructing high-impact, low-frequency events, which are rarely observed in instrumental or historical data. However, attributing a trigger mechanism to event deposits observed in lake sediments can be particularly challenging as different types of events can produce deposits with very similar lithological characteristics, such as turbidites. In this review paper, we summarize the state of the art on event deposits in paleolimnology. We start by describing the sedimentary facies typical of floods, glacial lake outburst floods, avalanches, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and spontaneous delta collapses. We then describe the most indicative methods that can be applied at the scale of lake basins (geophysical survey, multiple coring) and on sediment cores (sedimentology, inorganic and organic geochemistry, biotic approach). Finally, we provide recommendations on how to obtain accurate chronologies on sediment cores containing event deposits, and ultimately date the events. Accurately identifying and dating event deposits has the potential to improve hazard assessments, particularly in terms of the return periods, recurrence patterns, and maximum magnitudes, which is one of the main geological challenges for sustainable worldwide development. Full article
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Theoretical Principles and Perspectives of Hyperspectral Imaging Applied to Sediment Core Analysis
by Kévin Jacq, Maxime Debret, Bernard Fanget, Didier Coquin, Pierre Sabatier, Cécile Pignol, Fabien Arnaud and Yves Perrette
Quaternary 2022, 5(2), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5020028 - 1 Jun 2022
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Hyperspectral imaging is a recent technology that has been gaining popularity in the geosciences since the 1990s, both in remote sensing and in the field or laboratory. Indeed, it allows the rapid acquisition of a large amount of data that are spatialized on [...] Read more.
Hyperspectral imaging is a recent technology that has been gaining popularity in the geosciences since the 1990s, both in remote sensing and in the field or laboratory. Indeed, it allows the rapid acquisition of a large amount of data that are spatialized on the studied object with a low-cost, compact, and automatable sensor. This practical article aims to present the current state of knowledge on the use of hyperspectral imaging for sediment core analysis (core logging). To use the full potential of this type of sensor, many points must be considered and will be discussed to obtain reliable and quality data to extract many environmental properties of sediment cores. Hyperspectral imaging is used in many fields (e.g., remote sensing, geosciences and artificial intelligence) and offers many possibilities. The applications of the literature will be reviewed under five themes: lake and water body trophic status, source-to-sink approaches, organic matter and mineralogy studies, and sedimentary deposit characterization. Afterward, discussions will be focused on a multisensor core logger, data management, integrated use of these data for the selection of sample areas, and other opportunities. Through this practical article, we emphasize that hyperspectral imaging applied to sediment cores is still an emerging tool and shows many possibilities for refining the understanding of environmental processes. Full article
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Reconstructing Paleoflood Occurrence and Magnitude from Lake Sediments
by Bruno Wilhelm, Benjamin Amann, Juan Pablo Corella, William Rapuc, Charline Giguet-Covex, Bruno Merz and Eivind Støren
Quaternary 2022, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5010009 - 1 Feb 2022
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Lake sediments are a valuable archive to document past flood occurrence and magnitude, and their evolution over centuries to millennia. This information has the potential to greatly improve current flood design and risk assessment approaches, which are hampered by the shortness and scarcity [...] Read more.
Lake sediments are a valuable archive to document past flood occurrence and magnitude, and their evolution over centuries to millennia. This information has the potential to greatly improve current flood design and risk assessment approaches, which are hampered by the shortness and scarcity of gauge records. For this reason, paleoflood hydrology from lake sediments received fast-growing attention over the last decade. This allowed an extensive development of experience and methodologies and, thereby, the reconstruction of paleoflood series with increasingly higher accuracy. In this review, we provide up-to-date knowledge on flood sedimentary processes and systems, as well as on state-of-the-art methods for reconstructing and interpreting paleoflood records. We also discuss possible perspectives in the field of paleoflood hydrology from lake sediments by highlighting the remaining challenges. This review intends to guide the research interest in documenting past floods from lake sediments. In particular, we offer here guidance supported by the literature in how: to choose the most appropriate lake in a given region, to find the best suited sedimentary environments to take the cores, to identify flood deposits in the sedimentary sequence, to distinguish them from other instantaneous deposits, and finally, to rigorously interpret the flood chronicle thus produced. Full article
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Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations
by Eric Capo, Charline Giguet-Covex, Alexandra Rouillard, Kevin Nota, Peter D. Heintzman, Aurèle Vuillemin, Daniel Ariztegui, Fabien Arnaud, Simon Belle, Stefan Bertilsson, Christian Bigler, Richard Bindler, Antony G. Brown, Charlotte L. Clarke, Sarah E. Crump, Didier Debroas, Göran Englund, Gentile Francesco Ficetola, Rebecca E. Garner, Joanna Gauthier, Irene Gregory-Eaves, Liv Heinecke, Ulrike Herzschuh, Anan Ibrahim, Veljo Kisand, Kurt H. Kjær, Youri Lammers, Joanne Littlefair, Erwan Messager, Marie-Eve Monchamp, Fredrik Olajos, William Orsi, Mikkel W. Pedersen, Dilli P. Rijal, Johan Rydberg, Trisha Spanbauer, Kathleen R. Stoof-Leichsenring, Pierre Taberlet, Liisi Talas, Camille Thomas, David A. Walsh, Yucheng Wang, Eske Willerslev, Anne van Woerkom, Heike H. Zimmermann, Marco J. L. Coolen, Laura S. Epp, Isabelle Domaizon, Inger G. Alsos and Laura Parducciadd Show full author list remove Hide full author list
Quaternary 2021, 4(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4010006 - 13 Feb 2021
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The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely applied nowadays, knowledge gaps remain in this field and there is therefore still research to be [...] Read more.
The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely applied nowadays, knowledge gaps remain in this field and there is therefore still research to be conducted to ensure the reliability of the sedimentary DNA signal. Building on the most recent literature and seven original case studies, we synthesize the state-of-the-art analytical procedures for effective sampling, extraction, amplification, quantification and/or generation of DNA inventories from sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) via high-throughput sequencing technologies. We provide recommendations based on current knowledge and best practises. Full article
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