Based on the function relationship between the shell length of Limnocythere inopinata and the salinity of its living water in Tibetan Plateau lakes, the paleosalinty of Qinghai Lake in the past 900 years was reconstru...
This work was supported bythe National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 49702028 and 49894170-04) ;and the Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX1-Y-05).
Ostracods are small bivalved aquatic crustaceans. They secrete shells of low-Mg calcite that are often preserved in lake sediments. Recent work has shown that the uptake of trace elements (especially Mg and Sr) into t...