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## Abstract Bolin Billabong is a shallow, eutrophic and turbid oxbow lake located on the lower Yarra River floodplain, in suburban Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). A combination of radiometric dating, historical data, fossil markers and mineral magnetics has been used to develop a sediment chronology for the billabong that extends from about AD 1120 to the present. Fossil pollen and diatoms have been used to provide a high‐resolution record of vegetation and aquatic ecosystem change through this period, with the aim of developing a better understanding of human disturbance in floodplain lakes. Specifically we aim to investigate the development and trajectory of eutrophic and turbid conditions that exist in the lake at present. The pre‐European contact diatom assemblage at Bolin Billabong is dominated by a planktonic taxon, __Cyclotella stelligera__, and had very low diversity, with little evidence of species turnover. This suggests that the billabong had low nutrient concentrations and contrasts with the generally accepted notion of billabongs as naturally diverse, productive and variable systems. The initial period of European occupation was characterized by catchment disturbance

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Author

Paul J. Leahy; John Tibby; A. Peter Kershaw; Henk Heijnis; John S. Kershaw

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1535-1459)

Published

2005

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)