Chironomid-climate continentality conundrum.

ABSTRACT: It is predicted that continentality, a climate parameter representative of a region's annual temperature and precipitation range, will undergo significant changes in the future. The lack of past continentality reconstructions makes it impossible to decipher any long-term patterns of continentality changes. Here, we investigate the extent to which continentality influences modern chironomid assemblages and evaluate their ecological relevance for palaeolimnological data-based reconstructions of past continentality. We selected 53 lakes along a longitudinal gradient covering the East European Plain (Western part of Russia, Estonia, Latvia) and southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway). We analysed the dependency of chironomid assemblages on a variety of environmental parameters including two c

SUBMITTER: Bakumenko V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12324118 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature