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While climate change is rapidly warming lakes and reservoirs, warming rates can be highly variable among systems because lake characteristics can modulate atmospheric forcing. While it is known that water clarity changes can alter lake water temperatures, it is unknown if frequently observed water clarity trends are sufficient to meaningfully impact the thermal trajectories of diverse lake populations. Using process-based modeling and empirical observations, this study demonstrates that water clarity changes of about 1% per year amplifies or suppresses warming at rates comparable to climate-induced warming. These results demonstrate that trends in water clarity, which are occurring in many lakes, may be as important...
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Climatology,
Fish,
Northeast CASC,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
Water Quality,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags
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Fisheries in the glacial lakes region of the upper Midwest are culturally, economically, and recreationally beneficial. Walleye, for instance, represent an important subsistence food source for some Wisconsin tribal nations and are also popular among recreational anglers. However, predicted ecological changes to these aquatic communities, such as an increase in invasive fish species, a decrease in walleye and other native fishes, and worsening water quality due to increases in temperature and shifts in precipitation, has prompted concern among regional anglers who may abandon certain fisheries as these changes occur. Understanding how changes in climate may affect glacial lakes region fishes, and how fishery managers...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2018,
CASC,
Fish,
Fish,
Indigenous Peoples, All tags...
Indigenous Peoples,
National CASC,
National CASC,
Projects by Region,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Tribes and Tribal Organizations,
Tribes and Tribal Organizations,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wisconsin,
adaptation,
glacial lakes,
walleye, Fewer tags
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