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The proposed project aims at reconstruction of lake and wetland ecosystems, climate change and environmental dynamics, both natural and man-made, at high temporal resolution in Estonia and neighbouring areas during the post-glacial time through a multidisciplinary and multiproxy study of records contained in naturally occurring archives such as lake sediments and peat bogs. The study provides high-resolution palaeodata using analytical methods such as pollen, diatoms, cladocerans and chironomids etc. from multiple environmental archives to produce new quantitative pollen-inferred palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental (landscape and land-use) reconstructions, to define transfer functions between modern diatom assemblages and other water environmental parameters to reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental conditions of lakes establishing a connection between past water environment and climate changes. The inference models, as well as expected results on chronology, human impact, vegetation development and Baltic Sea history will provide better and more realistic quantitative estimates for reconstructing post-glacial climatic variability and environmental changes from sedimentary microfossil assemblages. |