Influence of catchment quality and altitude on the water and sediment composition of 68 small lakes in Central Europe

Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 316-337

  Müller, Beat ^a   Lotter, André F ^b,c   Sturm, Michael ^c   Ammann, Adrian ^c  

^a Limnological Research Center   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Catchment; Climate; Lakes; Land use; Nitrogen; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS; LAKE; LAND USE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; VEGETATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0344431256     PISSN: 10151621     EISSN: 14209055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000270050044     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Anderson N.J. and R.W. Battarbee, 1994. Aquatic community persistence and variability: a palaeolimnological perspective. In: P.S. Giller, A.G. Hildrew, & D. Raffaelli, (eds.) Aquatic Ecology: Scale, Patterns and Processes. Blackwell Scientific Publications, London. 233-259.
2. Barry R.G. 1992. Mountain weather and climate, 2nd ed. Routledge, London. 402 pp.
3. Berner E.K. and R.A. Berner, 1996. Global Environment: water, air, and geochemical cycles, p. 227. Prentice Hall, Inc.
4. Brenner M. and M.W. Binford, 1988. Relationship between concentration of sedimentary variables and trophic state in Florida lakes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 45:294-300.
5. Catalan J. and Fee, E.J., 1994, Interannual variability in limnic ecosystems: origin, patterns, and predictability. In: R. Margalef (ed.), Limnology Now: A Paradigm of Planetary Problems. Elsevier Science B.V 81-97.
6. DEW 1996, Deutsche Einheitsverfahren zur Wasseruntersuchung, Bd. II, VCH Weinheim, New York, Basel, Cambridge, Tokyo; Beuth Berlin, Wien, Zurich.
7. Drever J. I. and J. Zobrist, 1992. Chemical weathering of silicate rocks as a function of elevation in the southern Swiss Alps. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56:3209-3216.
8. Gächter R., A. Mares, Ch. Stamm, U. Kunze and J. Blum, 1996. Dünger düngt Sempachersee. Agrarforschung 3(7):329-332.
9. Hupfer M., R. Gächter, and R. Giovanoli, 1995. Transformation of phosphorous species settling seston and during early sediment diagenesis. Aquatic Sci. 57:305-324.
10. Hydrological Atlas of Switzerland, 1992. Landeshydrologie und -geologie, EDMZ, CH-3003 Berne.
11. Imboden D.M. and A. Wüest, 1995. Mixing Mechanisms in Lakes. In: A. Lerman, D. Imboden, J. Gat (eds.) Physics and Chemistry of Lakes. 2nd ed., Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, p. 83-138.
12. Larsen J., J.F. Boyle, and H.J.B. Birks, 1996. Variation in the geochemistry of recent lake sediments along a west-east pollution gradient in the Bergen area, Norway. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 88:47-81.
13. Livingstone D.M. and D. Imboden, 1996. The prediction of hypolimnetic oxygen profiles: a plea for a deductive approach. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 53:924-932.
14. Lotter, A.F., H.J.B. Birks, W. Hofmann and A. Marchetto, 1997a. Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. I. Climate. Journal of Paleolimnology, 18: 395-420.
15. Lotter, A.F., H.J.B. Birks, W. Hofmann and A. Marchetto, 1997b. Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. II. Nutrients. Journal of Paleolimnology, in press.
16. Margalef, R., 1994. The place of epicontinental waters in global ecology. In: R. Margalef (ed.) Limnology Now: A Paradigm of Planetary Problems. Elsevier Science B.V. 1-8.
17. Müller B., 1995. ChemEQL V2.0, A program to calculate chemical speciation equilibria. Internal report, EAWAG, CH-6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland.
18. OECD, 1982. Eutrophisation des eaux. Méthodes de surveillance, d'évaluation et de lutte. OCDE, Paris. 174 pp.
19. Pienitz, R. and J.P. Smol, 1993. Diatom assemblages and their relationship to environmental variables in lakes from the boreal forest-tundra ecotone near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Hydrobiologia 269/270:391-404.
20. POLLUMET, 1990. Luftverschmutzung und Meteorologie in der Schweiz, B. Neininger and J. Dommen, 2nd ed. Zuerich.
21. Psenner, R. and Schmidt, R., 1992. Climate-driven pH control of remote alpine lakes and effects of acid deposition. Nature 356:781-783.
22. Schindler, D.W., 1987. Detecting ecosystem response to anthropogenic stress. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 44:6-25.
23. Stumm W. and J.J. Morgan, 1996. Aquatic Chemistry, 3rd ed., Wiley.
24. Velbel M.A., A.B. Taylor and N.L. Romero, 1990. Effect of temperature on feldspar weathering rates in alpine and non alpine watersheds. Geol. Soc. Amer., Abstr. Prog. 22:49.
25. Wilkinson L., 1988. SYSTAT: the system for statistics. SYSTAT Inc., Evanston, III.
26. Wüest A., W. Aeschbach-Haertig and H. Baur, 1992. Density structure and tritium-helium age of deep hypolimnetic water in the northern basin of lake Lugano. Aquat. Sci. 54:205-218.
27. Zobrist J., 1983. Die Belastung der schweizerischen Gewässer durch Niederschläge. VDI-Berich-te. 500:159-164.
28. Zobrist J. and J.I. Drever, 1990b. Weathering processes in alpine watersheds sensitive to aciditication. In: Pollution research report 20 "Acidification processes in remote mountain lakes", ed. by M. Johannessen, R. Mosello, and H. Barth, CEC Brussels, 149-161.