Development of the Kubłowo palaeolake, central Poland, during the Eemian Interglacial as against subfossil Cladocera analysis – preliminary results

The re sults of anal y sis of Cladocera oc cur rence in lac us trine sed i ments from the Kub³owo site have been pre sented. Lac us trine and peat de pos its found there have been pre vi ously an a lyzed for pol len con tent (depth of 11.1–3.8 m) and rep re sent a lon gest con tin u ous Eemian–Vistulian suc ces sion in cen tral Po land (Ro man and Balwierz, 2010). Cladocera anal y sis was car ried out on 25 sam ples from the depth of 9.20–10.5 m of an Eemian age sec tion. The sec tion con - sists of fine or ganic sand, silt with or ganic mat ter and gyttja. Iden ti fied were 19 spe cies of subfossil Cladocera and five zones of fauna de vel op ment were dis tin guished. In the early and mid-Eemian low fre quency zoo plank ton in the palaeolake has been found. Best con di tions for zoo plank ton de vel op ment oc curred in the late Eemian (R PAZ E6, E7). At the end of the Eemian a sig nif i cant change of cli mate in a de te ri o ra tion of en vi ron men tal con di tions and de creased pres ence of zoo plank ton has been noted. Cladocera re sults and the pol len data en able a re con struc tion of the cli ma tic and en vi ron men tal changes in the Kub³owo palaeolake.