Lakes as sensors in the landscape: Optical metrics as scalable sentinel responses to climate change

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 840-850

  Williamson, Craig E ^a   Brentrup, Jennifer A ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Renwick, William H ^a   Hargreaves, Bruce R ^b   Knoll, Lesley B ^c   Overholt, Erin P ^a   Rose, Kevin C ^d  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lacawac Sanctuary   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; AIR TEMPERATURE; AUTOTROPHY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HETEROTROPHY; LAKE WATER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; OXYGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATIFICATION; TRANSPARENCY; TREND ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84899638146     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.3.0840     Document Type: Article

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