Citation: Saulnier-Talbot É (2015) Overcoming the disconnect: are paleolimnologists doing enough to make their science accessible to aquatic managers and conservationists? Progress in adaptive management and conservation of ecosystems cannot take place without direct collaboration between academics and practitioners. Hence, one of the most important challenges facing the development of sustaina...

Paleolimnologists have utilized lake sediment records to understand historical lake and landscape development, timing and magnitude of environmental change at lake, watershed, regional and global scales, and as historical datasets to target watershed and lake management. Resurrection ecologists have long recognized lake sediments as sources of viable propagules ("seed or egg banks") with which ...

12 One way to analyze the relationship between species attributes (e.g. functional traits) and sample 13 attributes (e.g. environmental variables) via the matrix of species composition is by calculating 14 the community-weighted mean of species attributes (CWM) and relating it to sample attributes 15 by correlation, regression, ANOVA etc. This weighted-mean approach is used in a number of 16 ec...