APPLIED ISSUES A landscape approach to examining spatial patterns of limnological variables and long-term environmental change in a southern Canadian lake district

ROBERTO QUINLAN* , ANDREW M. PATERSON †, , ROLAND I. HALL § , PETER J. DILLON , ANNA N. WILKINSON , BRIAN F. CUMMING , MARIANNE S. V. DOUGLAS* AND JOHN P. SMOL † *Paleoecological Assessment Laboratory (PAL), Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada †Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL), Department of Biology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada ‡Dorset Environmental Science Centre, Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Dorset, Ontario, Canada §Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada –Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada