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

Landscape Position of Lakes

Long term research at the NTL-LTER site, which was established in 1981, provided unexpected insights into the effect of climate shifts on lake-groundwater interactions. Five years after the site was established, the region experienced a severe 4-year drought. The availability of continuous, long-term data before, during, and after the drought allowed Anderson et al. (1993) to show that local flowpaths of groundwater to lakes were much more dynamic and transient than previously thought. Crystal Lake, an NTL-LTER seepage lake located high in the landscape received up to 10% of it's water inputs from groundwater during wet periods, but became totally isolated from groundwater inputs during the drought ....

Transformational Science

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

MANAGING WATER QUALITY IN A CHANGING WORLD

Eutrophication, the over-enrichment of freshwaters with nutrients, is caused by complex interactions of people and ecosystems that are hard to manage. A long-term perspective shows how management can adapt to changing social and ecological realities, learning from failures and building on successes.

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