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SUBMITTER: Parker BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2529110 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Parker Brian R BR Vinebrooke Rolf D RD Schindler David W DW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080825 35
Here, we show that alpine lake ecosystems are responsive to interannual variation in climate, based on long-term limnological and meteorological data from the Canadian Rockies. In the 2000s, in years with colder winter temperatures, higher winter snowfall, later snowmelt, shorter ice-free seasons, and dryer summers, relative to the 1990s, alpine lakes became clearer, warmer, and mixed to deeper depths. Further, lakes became more dilute and nutrient-poor, the latter leading to significant decline ...[more]