Sedimentary TE profiles are in accordance with other forms of long-term monitoring, i.e., the European moss monitoring survey (UBA 2019) and are suited to complement and validate these and others (e.g., the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER), and, the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON)). Furthermore, sedimentary TE profiles can be used as a relatively cheap and easy dating reference point for northeastern Germany for future paleolimnological works, i.e. as age models solely based on elemental patterns.