@article {2785,
	title = {Lake-level variability in Salar de Coipasa, Bolivia during the past \~{}40,000 yrAbstract},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {91},
	year = {2019},
	month = {Jan-03-2019},
	pages = {881 - 891},
	abstract = {Various paleoclimatic records have been used to reconstruct the hydrologic history of the Altiplano, relating this history to past variability of the South American summer monsoon. Prior studies of the southern Altiplano, the location of the world{\textquoteright}s largest salt flat, the Salar de Uyuni, and its neighbor, the Salar de Coipasa, generally agree in their reconstructions of the climate history of the past \~{}24 ka. Some studies, however, have highly divergent climatic records and interpretations of earlier periods. In this study, lake-level variation was reconstructed from a \~{}14-m-long sediment core from the Salar de Coipasa. These sediments span the last \~{}40 ka. Lacustrine sediment accumulation was apparently continuous in the basin from \~{}40 to 6 ka, with dry or very shallow conditions afterward. The fossil diatom stratigraphy and geochemical data (δ13C, δ15N, \%Ca, C/N) indicate fluctuations in lake level from shallow to moderately deep, with the deepest conditions correlative with the Heinrich-1 and Younger Dryas events. The stratigraphy shows a continuous lake of variable depth and salinity during the last glacial maximum and latter stages of Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and is consistent with environmental inferences and the original chronology of a drill core from Salar de Uyuni.},
	keywords = {Altiplano, Andes, Paleoclimate, paleohydrology, Paleolake, South America},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1017/qua.2018.108},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0033589418001084/type/journal_article},
	author = {Nunnery, J. Andrew and Fritz, Sherilyn C. and Baker, Paul A. and Salenbien, Wout}
}
@article {2784,
	title = {A ~6000 yr diatom record of mid- to late Holocene fluctuations in the level of Lago Wi{\~n}aymarca, Lake Titicaca (Peru/Bolivia)Abstract},
	journal = {Quaternary Research},
	volume = {88},
	year = {2017},
	month = {Jan-09-2017},
	pages = {179 - 192},
	abstract = {A multidecadal-scale lake-level reconstruction for Lago Wi{\~n}aymarca, the southern basin of Lake Titicaca, has been generated from diatom species abundance data. These data suggest that ~6500 cal yr BP Lago Wi{\~n}aymarca was dry, as indicated by a sediment unconformity. At ~4400 cal yr BP, the basin began to fill, as indicated by the dominance of shallow epiphytic species. It remained somewhat saline with extensive wetlands and abundant aquatic plants until ~3800 cal yr BP, when epiphytic species were replaced by planktic saline-indifferent species, suggesting a saline shallow lake. Wi{\~n}aymarca remained a relatively shallow lake that fluctuated on a multidecadal scale until ~1250 cal yr BP, when freshwater planktic species increased, suggesting a rise in lake level with a concomitant decrease in salinity. The lake became gradually fresher, dominated by deep, freshwater species from ~850 cal yr BP. By ~80 cal yr BP, saline-tolerant species were rare, and the lake was dominated by freshwater planktic diatoms, resembling the fresh and deep lake of today. These results reveal a more dynamic and chronologically specific record of lake-level fluctuations and associated ecological conditions that provide important new data for paleoclimatologists and archaeologists, to better understand human-environmental dynamics during the mid- to late Holocene.},
	keywords = {diatoms, Lago Hui{\~n}aimarca, Lago Wi{\~n}aymarca, Lake level, lake titicaca, Mid-Holocene, Tropical Andes},
	issn = {0033-5894},
	doi = {10.1017/qua.2017.49},
	url = {https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0033589417000497/type/journal_article},
	author = {Weide, D. Marie and Fritz, Sherilyn C. and Hastorf, Christine A. and Bruno, Maria C. and Baker, Paul A. and Guedron, Stephane and Salenbien, Wout}
}
