Water fluxes and water quality

Lake sediments will provide information about long-term hydrological variability and evolution of water quality. Quantification of runoff, meltwater and groundwater contributions to the hydrological budget will allow to test the effects of hydrological events on the aquatic ecosystem as well as help to disentangle these components archived in lake sediment records. Overall, the identification of the local components of the water balance and an integral approach of surface and subsurface flow modeling with water balance studies will provide assessments of past and future dynamics of water fluxes and water quality.

W1

Modeling climate change impact on water budgets using an integrated surface-subsurface approach

W2

Diatoms as water quality indicators

W3

Invertebrates and their stable isotope composition as paleohydrological proxies

W5

The deep biosphere in Lake Nam Co sediments: distinguishing deeply buried microbial life and paleolimnological records

W7

Lipid biomarkers and compound-specific isotope analyses at Nam Co – calibration and 2k

W4

Modelling data-driven impact of atmospheric and hydrogeophysical variables on water fluxes

W6

Population structure and dynamics in freshwater ecosystems under climate change - A combined ecological-molecular approach using ostracodes