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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Long-term environmental change in lower Lough Corrib and its catchment: a multidisciplinary palaeoecological study |
| Research Area | Water |
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| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Michael O'Connell |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 53.27905, -9.05794 |
| Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/11/2002 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/11/2005 |
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| Project Keywords | Lakes; Anthropogenic impact; Trophic Status; Climate Change |
| Project Abstract | The project represents the first serious attempt to document long-term changes 'both natural and anthropogenic' in the Lough Corrib catchments area, the largest freshwater body in the Republic of Ireland. It involves pollen and macrofossil analyses, and stable isotope investigations on thick marl and peat deposits in the lower Corrib basin with a view to investigating, as comprehensively as possible, palaeoenvironmental change over the course of the post-glacial era limnic changes, including lake levels and trophic status, will be documented, and the effects of climate change and human activity on the limnic and terrestrial environments will be critically studied. |