Volume 16, Number 2 (1989)
Articles

Methods in Quaternary Ecology #7. Freshwater Ostracodes

L. Denis Delorme
National Water Research Institute, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario and Quaternary Sciences Institute, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.

Publié-e 1989-06-06

Comment citer

Delorme, L. D. (1989). Methods in Quaternary Ecology #7. Freshwater Ostracodes. Geoscience Canada, 16(2). Consulté à l’adresse https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/GC/article/view/3597

Résumé

Ostracodes that have lived in lakes, ponds, and streams are recovered as fossil shells from lacustrine and some fluvial sediments. Knowing some details of the physical and chemical habitat in which ostracode species live (autecology) allows one to decipher past habitats from fossil bearing sediments. Based on changes in ostracode faunal associations, changes in the physical and chemical habitats, can be interpreted. Climate, the driving force behind most changes in lakes and ponds, can also be delineated. The history of ostracode paleo environmental research as it pertains to Canada and to some extent North America is the subject of this review paper.