Global lake responses to climate change

RI Woolway, BM Kraemer, JD Lenters… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change is one of the most severe threats to global lake ecosystems. Lake surface
conditions, such as ice cover, surface temperature, evaporation and water level, respond …

Combined effects of heatwaves and micropollutants on freshwater ecosystems: Towards an integrated assessment of extreme events in multiple stressors research

F Polazzo, SK Roth, M Hermann… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater ecosystems are strongly influenced by weather extremes such as heatwaves
(HWs), which are predicted to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. In addition …

Response of cyanobacteria and phytoplankton abundance to warming, extreme rainfall events and nutrient enrichment

J Richardson, H Feuchtmayr, C Miller… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacterial blooms are an increasing threat to water quality and global water security
caused by the nutrient enrichment of freshwaters. There is also a broad consensus that …

Vibrational modes of water predict spectral niches for photosynthesis in lakes and oceans

T Holtrop, J Huisman, M Stomp, L Biersteker… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Stretching and bending vibrations of water molecules absorb photons of specific
wavelengths, a phenomenon that constrains light energy available for aquatic …

Lake browning may fuel phytoplankton biomass and trigger shifts in phytoplankton communities in temperate lakes

OE Senar, IF Creed, CG Trick - Aquatic Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Lake browning—the increase in catchment-derived (allochthonous) dissolved organic
matter (DOM) to lakes—is altering lake physicochemical environments, with consequences …

Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria abundances in mid‐21st century lakes depend strongly on future land use and climate projections

K Kakouei, BM Kraemer, O Anneville… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land use and climate change are anticipated to affect phytoplankton of lakes worldwide.
The effects will depend on the magnitude of projected land use and climate changes and …

Changes in water color shift competition between phytoplankton species with contrasting light‐harvesting strategies

VM Luimstra, JMH Verspagen, T Xu, JM Schuurmans… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The color of many lakes and seas is changing, which is likely to affect the species
composition of freshwater and marine phytoplankton communities. For example …

Invertebrates are declining in boreal aquatic habitat: The effect of brownification?

C Arzel, P Nummi, L Arvola, H Pöysä… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Surface water browning affects boreal lakes in the Northern Hemisphere. This process is
expected to increase with global warming. Boreal lakes are the most numerous lakes on …

Long‐term warming destabilizes aquatic ecosystems through weakening biodiversity‐mediated causal networks

CW Chang, H Ye, T Miki, ER Deyle… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how ecosystems will respond to climate changes requires unravelling the
network of functional responses and feedbacks among biodiversity, physicochemical …

Climate warming and heat waves alter harmful cyanobacterial blooms along the benthic–pelagic interface

P Urrutia‐Cordero, H Zhang, F Chaguaceda, H Geng… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to a rise in mean air and water temperatures, more frequent and intense extreme
climate events (such as heat waves) have been recorded around the globe during the past …