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Chironomid dataset from Mutterbergersee: A late-Holocene paleotemperature proxy record for the Central Eastern Alps,
Elena A Ilyashuk1, Oliver Heiri2, Wojciech Tylmann3
1Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, Innsbruck 6020, Austria.
Abstract:
We present a dataset of subfossil chironomid assemblages in the MUT-10 sediment core obtained from the high alpine lake Mutterbergersee in the Austrian Alps in 2010. The data were presented in the research article by Ilyashuk et al. (2019) "The Little Ice Age signature in a 700-year high-resolution chironomid record of summer temperatures in the Central Eastern Alps". In addition to the results of the chironomid analysis of 100 sediment samples presented in this article, we also include chironomid assemblage data from an additional 48 sediment samples that complement this dataset. The data includes raw chironomid counts, percent abundance of chironomid taxa, as well as mean July air temperature estimates derived from the chironomid record based on a chironomid-temperature transfer function. We also provide information on age-dating of the sedimentary sequence. Given the high temporal resolution and the robust age-depth model of the record, the chironomid-based reconstruction of temperature since AD 1300 provides a detailed documentation of climate change in the Eastern Alps from the Little Ice Age onwards and can be used for comparison with other independent proxy-based climate reconstructions. In addition to the data, we detail the sample processing for subfossil chironomid analysis and provide a detailed description of the reconstruction technique used for producing chironomid-based quantitative temperature inferences.
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