Abstract Background The restoration of lake ecosystems requires a good knowledge the lake’s history and driving mechanism environmental changes. In this study, we used Lake Datong, largest inland in Hunan Province China, as an example to study effects aquaculture, based on historical data aquatic creature, diatom inferred-total phosphorous (DI-TP) data, Ecopath model. Datong has undergone sever...

Introduction Lake Tahoe resides in a high elevation basin separated from the Sacramento Valley by the dominant Sierra Nevada divide along the Crystal Range. Lower ridges of the Carson Range to the east separate the lake from the Great Basin. These physical attributes define atmospheric processes in the Tahoe basin as much as define hydrological processes. The presence of the cold lake at the bo...

Temperature microstructure casts are often analyzed to compute the diapycnal diffusivity Kρ in geophysical flows. In the present study, we analyze 17 microstructure casts obtained during a Kelvin-Helmholtz billowing event at the base of the upper mixed layer in Lake Erie. From these casts, the turbulence properties of the mixing event are investigated and six parameterizations are applied to de...

Parasites should be better at infecting hosts from sympatric populations than allopatric populations most of the time (parasite local adaptation). In a previous study of a population of snail parasites (Microphallus sp.) from Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand, we found that Microphallus was more infective to snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in shallow water but not in deep water. Here, we repeated...