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The reconstruction of river flow and habitats within the River Trent catchment based on sub-fossil insect remains: a multiproxy approach
thesis
posted on 2018-10-31, 14:18 authored by Lynda C. HowardA multiproxy approach has been used to investigate environmental change within a
palaeochannel of the River Trent. The river floodplain and its palaeochannels provide
palaeoecological and sedimentological archives of environmental changes. This study
draws on information obtained from the analysis of the sediments contained within a
palaeochannel at Aston-on-Trent, Derbyshire, and from a contemporary comparative
taphonomic study of a reach of the River Soar, Leicestershire. Three insect proxies
(Coleoptera, Trichoptera and Chironomidae) have been used within the palaeochannel
sediments to reconstruct palaeoflow conditions by adapting a contemporary index based
on the species level flow requirements of aquatic invertebrates (Lotic invertebrate Index
for Flow Evaluation, LIFE). The comparative study in the River Soar used one insect
proxy (Trichoptera) to establish the nature of the current processes of taphonomic
distribution, in order to validate the use of the contemporary flow index in the
palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. [Continues.]
Funding
Loughborough University, Department of Geography.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Publisher
© L. HowardPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2007Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en