Ecological stoichiometry of the mountain cryosphere

Z Ren, N Martyniuk, IA Oleksy, A Swain… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Roughly 10% of the Earth's surface is permanently covered by glaciers and ice sheets and
in mountain ecosystems, this proportion of ice cover is often even higher. From an ecological …

Oxygen depletion in Arctic lakes: circumpolar trends, biogeochemical processes, and implications of climate change

Y Klanten, RM Couture… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polar amplification of climate change has the potential to cause large‐scale shifts in the
dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics of Arctic lakes, with implications for fish survival …

When glaciers and ice sheets melt: consequences for planktonic organisms

R Sommaruga - Journal of plankton research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The current melting of glaciers and ice sheets is a consequence of climatic change and their
turbid meltwaters are filling and enlarging many new proglacial and ice-contact lakes …

Light attenuation characteristics of glacially‐fed lakes

KC Rose, DP Hamilton, CE Williamson… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Transparency is a fundamental characteristic of aquatic ecosystems and is highly
responsive to changes in climate and land use. The transparency of glacially‐fed lakes may …

Modeling historical fecal coliform loadings to large European rivers and resulting in-stream concentrations

K Reder, M Flörke, J Alcamo - Environmental Modelling & Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Information on fecal coliform (FC) concentrations in European rivers is scarce. The
objective of this study was to identify hotspots of water pollution in Europe and provide …

Climate-induced input of turbid glacial meltwater affects vertical distribution and community composition of phyto-and zooplankton

S Hylander, T Jephson, K Lebret… - Journal of Plankton …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Receding glaciers are among the most obvious changes caused by global warming, and
glacial meltwater entering lakes generally forms plumes of particles. By taking vertical …

Environmental changes affecting light climate in oligotrophic mountain lakes: the deep chlorophyll maxima as a sensitive variable

B Modenutti, E Balseiro, M Bastidas Navarro… - Aquatic Sciences, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The North-Patagonian Andean lakes of Argentina are high light, low nutrient
environments that exhibit development of deep chlorophyll maxima (DCM) at the …

[HTML][HTML] Phytoplankton absorption spectra along the water column in deep North Patagonian Andean lakes (Argentina)

G Perez, C Queimalinos, E Balseiro, B Modenutti - Limnologica, 2007 - Elsevier
During a summer period we studied the vertical variation of in vivo and chlorophyll a specific
phytoplankton absorption spectra in relation to the underwater light climate of ten deep …

Ecological thresholds of periphytic communities and ecosystems integrity in lower Doce River basin

S Zorzal-Almeida, V de Oliveira Fernandes - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Freshwater biodiversity has been impacted by several stressors such as eutrophication,
turbidity and metals. Besides these frequent impacts, large-scale accidents occasionally …

Pre-monsoon bio-optical properties in estuarine, coastal and Lakshadweep waters

HB Menon, A Lotliker, SR Nayak - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 2005 - Elsevier
Spatial patterns of bio-optical properties were studied in coastal, estuarine and
Lakshadweep waters during the pre-monsoon period. This was carried out by analysing the …