In much of the northern Great Plains, saline and hypersaline lacustrine brines are the only surface waters present. As a group, the lakes of this region are unique: there is no other area in the world that can match the concentration and diversity of saline lake environments exhibited in the prairie region of Canada and northern United States. The immense number of individual salt lakes and sal...

Invertebrates and their dormant stages are an essential component of most freshwater and marine ecosystems (Cáceres 1997). As the active invertebrate community has a very variable distribution, both in time and space (Arnott et al. 1999, Folt & Burns 1999), reliable assessment of community diversity consequently requires repeated sampling across multiple locations for a prolonged period of time...

Lake Muzzano (455950N 85541E, 337m a.s.l.) is a hyper-eutrophied lake located in the Tessin region of Switzerland. Almost every year, algal blooms (Microcystis) cover the lake with a thickness of 1–2 cm. These blooms associated with periods of anoxia in summer have led to fish kills in 1967 and 1994. In the hope of avoiding these blooms, a bypass bringing water away from the lake has been estab...

We use multiple proxies from lake sediment records of six remote alpine lakes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, to investigate primary production and potential drivers of changes in trophic status over the last two centuries. Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll a flux, and percentage of organic matter (determined by loss on ignition) increase beginning in the mid-20th century in five of the six alpine study...

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The waters of the Murray Darling Basin, Australia, have endured multiple stressors for more than a century. Detectable salinization impacts are evident from 1880 CE and elevated fluxes of sediments and nutrients are now widespread. Most wetlands examined paleolimnologically have shown increased sedimentation rates or have lost aquatic plant communities due to the shading effect of increased tur...

Sedimentary, geochemical and stable isotope analyses of a sediment core (core AY) recovered from Lake Aygır (NE Anatolia) provide evidence the climatic shifts during last ~500 yrs. Sediments in Aygırare composed silty clay with modeled ~0.16 cm/yr sedimentation rate. Multi-proxy downcore distribution detritally-deposited proxy elements, total calcium carbonate, organic carbon isotopes reveal re...