Environmental controls on pore number in hyalosphenia papilio: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Acta Protozoologica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-35

  Booth, Robert K ^a   Meyers, Blaze ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hyalosphenia ovalis; Hyalosphenia papilio; Hydrology; Paleoecology; Peatlands; Testate amoebae

Indexed keywords

HYALOSPHENIA; HYALOSPHENIA PAPILIO; SPHAGNUM;

EID: 77952577429     PISSN: 00651583     EISSN: 16890027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Beyens L. and Meisterfeld R. (2001) Protozoa: testate amoebae. In: Tracking environmental change using lake sediments. Volume 3: terrestrial, algal, and siliceous indicators, (Eds. J. P Smol, H. J. B. Birks, W. M. Last). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2. Birks H. J. B. (1998) Numerical tools in palaeolimnology Progress, potentialities, and problems. J. Paleolimnol. 20: 307-332
3. Bobrov A. A., Yazvenko S. B. and Warner B. G. (1995) Taxonomic and ecological implications of shell morphology of three testaceans (Protozoa, Rhizopoda) in Russia and Canada. Arch. Protistenk. 145: 119-126
4. Bobrov A. A., Charman D. J., and Warner B. G. (1999) Ecology of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) on peatlands in western Russia with special attention to niche separation in closely related taxa. Protist 150: 125-136
5. Booth R. K. (2001) Ecology of testate amoebae in two Lake Superior coastal wetlands: implications for paleoecology and environmental monitoring. Wetlands 21: 564-576
6. Booth R. K. (2002) Testate amoebae as paleoindicators of surfacemoisture changes on Michigan peatlands: modern ecology and hydrological calibration. J. Paleolimnol. 28: 329-348
7. Booth R. K. (2007) Testate amoebae as proxies for mean annual water-table depth in Sphagnum-dominated peatlands of North America. J. Quaternary Sci. 23: 43-57
8. Booth R. K., Jackson S. T., and Gray C. E. D. (2004) Paleoecology and high-resolution paleohydrology of a kettle peatland in Upper Michigan. Quaternary Res. 61: 1-13
9. Booth R. K., Notaro M., Jackson S. T., and Kutzbach J. E. (2006) Widespread drought episodes in the western Great Lakes region during the past 2000 years: geographic extent and potential mechanisms. Earth Planet. Sc. Lett. 242: 415-427
10. Cash J., and Hopkinson J. (1909) The British freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa: v. II: Rhizopoda, Part II: Ray Society (London) publication no 89
11. Cash J., Wailes G. H., and Hopkinson J. (1919) The British freshwater Rhizopoda and Heliozoa: Ray Society (London) publication no 103
12. Charman D. J. (1999) Testate Amoebae and the Fossil Record: Issues in Biodiversity. J. Biogeogr. 26: 89-96
13. Charman D. J. (2001) Biostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental applications of testate amoebae. Quaternary Sci. Rev. 20: 1753-1764
14. Charman D. J., Blundell A., Chiverrell R. C., Hendon D., and Langdon P. G. (2006) Compilation of non-annually resolved Holocene proxy climate records: stacked Holocene peatland palaeowater table reconstructions from northern Britain. Quaternary Sci. Rev. 25: 336-350
15. Charman D. J., Blundell A., and ACCROTELM Members (2007) A new European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. J. Quaternary Sci. 22: 209-221
16. Grospietsch T. (1965) Monographische Studie der Gattung Hyalosphenia Stein (Rhizopoda Testacea). Hydrobiologia 26: 211-241
17. Heal O. W. (1963) Morphological variation in certain Testacea (Protozoa: Rhizopoda). Arch. Protistenk. 106: 351-368
18. Heger T. J., Mitchel E. A. D., Ledeganck P., Vincke S., Van de Vijver B., and Beyens L. (2009) The curse of taxonomic uncertainty in biogeographical studies of free-living terrestrial protists: a case study of testate amoebae from Amsterdam Island. J. Biogeogr. 36: 1551-1560
19. Hendon D. and Charman D. J. (1997) The preparation of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) samples from peat. Holocene 7: 199-205
20. Juggins S. (2003) C2 User guide. Software for ecological and palaeoecological data analysis and visualization. University of Newcastle
21. Jung W. (1936a) Thekamöben eines Eggegebirgsmoores und zweier Moore im Hohen Venn. Annales de Protistol. V: 83-123
22. Jung W. (1936b) Thekamöben ursprünglicher, lebender deutscher Hochmoore: Abhandlungen aus dem Landesmuseum der Provinz Westfalen. Museum für Naturkunde, 7 Jahrgang, Heft 4, p. 1-87
23. Lamentowicz M., and Mitchell E. A. D. (2005) The Ecology of Testate Amoebae (Protists) in Sphagnum in North-western Poland in Relation to Peatland Ecology. Microb. Ecol. 50: 48-63
24. Leidy J. (1879) Fresh-water Rhizopods of North America: Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, v. 12
25. 13C of Sphagnum as surface-moisture proxies in Alaskan peatlands. Holocene, in press. doi: 10.1177/0959683609354303
26. Mitchell E. A. D., Charman D. J., and Warner B. G. (2008) Testate amoebae analysis in ecological and paleoecological studies of wetlands: past, present and future. Biodivers. Conserv. 17: 2115-2137
27. Mitchell E. A. D., Buttler A., Warner B. G., and Gobat J. M. (1999) Ecology of testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) in Sphagnum peatlands in the Jura mountains, Switzerland and France. Ecoscience 6: 565-576
28. Payne R. J., Kishaba K., Blackford J. J., and Mitchell E. A. D. (2006) Ecology of testate amoebae (Protista) in south-central Alaska peatlands: building transfer-function models for paleoenvironmental studies. Holocene 16: 403-414
29. Payne R. J., Charman D. J., Mathews S., and Eastwood W. J. (2008) Testate amoebae as palaeohydrological proxies in Sürmene Ad{stroke}açbaţi Yaylasi Peatland (Northeast Turkey). Wetlands 28: 311-323
30. Penard E. (1902) Faune rhizopodique du bassin du Léman. Henry Kündig (Genue)
31. Swindles G. T., Charman D. J., Roe H. M., and Sansum P. A. (2009) Environmental controls on peatland testate amoebae (Protozoa: Rhizopoda) in the North of Ireland: Implications for Holocene palaeoclimatic studies. J. Paleolimnol. 42: 123-140
32. Wanner M. (1999) A review on the variability of testate amoebae: methodological approaches, environmental influences and taxonomic implications. Acta Protozool. 38: 15-29
33. Wanner M., and Meisterfeld R. (1994) Effects of some environmental factors on the shell morphology of testate amoebae (Rhizopoda, Protozoa). Eur. J. Protistol. 30: 191-195
34. Woodland W. A., Charman D. J., and Sims P. C. (1998) Quantitative estimates of water tables and soil moisture in Holocene peatlands from testate amoebae. Holocene 8: 261-273