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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Reference Lakes"”.
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Changes in Diatom Assemblages in Adirondack (NY, USA) Reference Lakes Since Pre-Industrial Times
The vast majority of Adirondack lakes have been impacted since pre-industrial time through either regional (e.g. acidification) or local (e.g. fish stocking, liming, seepage of road salt, cultural eutrophication) environmental disturbances. Inferring changes related to climate are difficult due to …
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Acidification and Climate Warming: Understanding the Impact of Multiple Anthropogenic Stressors on Adirondack (NY, USA) Lakes
Lakes in the Adirondack Park (NY, USA) are undergoing chemical recovery from acidification. There is now a pressing research need to define recovery targets for acid-impacted sites. Researchers attempting to designate such targets are hampered by two issues: 1) a lack of long-term monitoring data, …
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Assessing vegetation reestablishment on disturbed high mountain lakeshores following historic dam removal in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA
… 80 years of inundation. The disturbed lakeshore areas were left to undergo passive restoration. In the years immediately following dam removal, one short-term (3 year) revegetation study was conducted at Lawn Lake, and informal observational data were gathered by NPS personnel at a …
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Effects of repeated early season herbicide treatments of curlyleaf pondweed on native macrophyte assemblages in Minnesota Lakes.
… are exemplified in the small, shallow, lakes of Minnesota. Curlyleaf pondweed (Potamogeton crispus L.) is one of the common occurring and most influential non-native invasive species in Minnesota. Characterized by its early spring growth and early summer senescence, curlyleaf has the …
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Relationships between water quality, species composition, biodiversity and ecosystem function in lakes and flooded pits exposed to uranium mining activities in Northern Saskatechewan
… quality on aquatic biota within flooded pit lakes and natural lakes that have been exposed to various mechanisms of mining exposure. However, the literature often only examines the effects of a limited number of contaminants on a limited number of species. Researchers have rarely looked at …