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Unsatisfactory field data in a calibration model for inferring past temperatures from chironomid assemblages in northern Fennoscandia: a comment on Olander, Birks, Korhola and Blom

Physical Geography Laboratory, PO Box 64, FIN-00014 Helsinki University, Finland matti.seppala{at}helsinki.fi

Olanderet al. (1999) used single temperature measurements of surface water to represent mean July temperatures of lake waters in Lapland. It is emphasized that this is not an appropriate basis for calibration of temperatures indicated by chironomid assemblages and to draw conclusions about past air temperatures. Air temperatures at the study sites were estimated and calculated yet the role of variations in topography has been omitted. The parameters used, such as lake depth, distance beyond tree-line and pH look good but are inaccurate and therefore problematic in statistical evaluations. The authors have not considered the role of the ice cover on the lakes.

Key Words: Chironomidae • calibration modelling • transfer functions • summer temperature • palaeotemperatures • field measurements • northern Fennoscandia

The Holocene, Vol. 11, No. 5, 613-615 (2001)
DOI: 10.1191/095968301680223576


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