Featured research in the area of long-term change

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Featured research in the area of long-term change

These are examples of the projects, publications and data sets used to answer the NTL framework question. Other projects and data sets may be found using the keywords 'long-term change', 'climate forcing', 'drivers', or 'ecosystem services'.

Project

Biblio

Long-term disease dynamics in lakes: casues and consequences of chytrid infections in Daphnia populations
Sampling requirements and the implications of reduced sampling effort for the estimation of annual zooplankton population and community dynamics in north temperate lakes.
The demography of coarse wood in north temperate lakes

Data Set

Research Highlights

Lakeshore residential development and largemouth bass growth: a cross-lakes comparison

As humans develop lake shorelines, several aspects of the terrestrial and aquatic habitats are altered, and these changes have potential effects that can ripple through aquatic food webs (Engel and Pederson 1998, Francis and Schindler 2009). Modifications to habitat structures along with direct human impacts, such as increased angling effort with lakeshore residential development (NRC 1992), may drive changes in game fish ecology.

Transformational Science

NTL has transformed our understanding of aquatic ecosystems by pioneering new approaches and perspectives for studying these environments. These transformations include:

GRASSROOTS NETWORK

We are implementing new technologies for studying the environment through formation of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON), a grassroots network of scientists and information technology experts who use data from instrumented buoys around the world to understand the complex coupling of physical and biological processes in lakes.

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