Ostracods as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: the Lake Van example

McCormack, Jeremy; Viehberg, Finn; Akdemir, Derya; Immenhauser, Adrian; Kwiecien, Ola

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2095-2019

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2095-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-2095-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

Research article

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20 May 2019

Research article |

| 20 May 2019

Ostracods as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: the Lake Van example

Jeremy McCormack, Finn Viehberg, Derya Akdemir, Adrian Immenhauser, and Ola Kwiecien

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RC1: 'Comments on “Ostracods as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: The Lake Van example” by McCormack et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jan 2019
- AC1: 'Final author comments', Jeremy McCormack, 15 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Review comments on McCormck et al. Ostracods as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: The Lake Van example. Biogeosciences Discuss.', C Neil Roberts, 18 Feb 2019
- AC2: 'Final author response', Jeremy McCormack, 15 Mar 2019
RC3: 'Comments to McCormack et al. Ostracods as ecological and isotopic indicators of lake water salinity changes: The Lake Van example', Anonymous Referee #3, 21 Feb 2019
- AC3: 'Final author comments', Jeremy McCormack, 15 Mar 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Mar 2019) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

AR by Jeremy McCormack on behalf of the Authors (21 Mar 2019)

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (31 Mar 2019) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (29 Apr 2019)

ED: Publish as is (29 Apr 2019) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

AR by Jeremy McCormack on behalf of the Authors (03 May 2019)

Short summary

We juxtapose changes in ostracod taxonomy, morphology (noding) and oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and carbon (δ¹³C) isotopic composition for the last 150 kyr with independent low-resolution salinity proxies. We demonstrate that for Lake Van, salinity is the most important factor influencing the composition of the ostracod assemblage and the formation of nodes on the valves of limnocytherinae species. Ostracod δ¹⁸O shows a higher sensibility towards climatic and hydrological variations than the bulk isotopy.