Development and application of an electrical conductivity transfer function, using diatoms from lakes in the Urals, Russia

Despite a relatively large number of paleoenvironmental and archaeological studies in the Southern Urals, Russia, Holocene moisture dynamics in the region remain a subject of debate. Electrical conductivity (EC) of lake waters in the Southern Urals is climate-dependent and associated with effective moisture. I developed a transfer function using a 72-lake regional diatom dataset and inferred past EC using diatoms in sediment cores from three...