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Regional and Supra-Regional Coherence in Limnological Variables

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The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes

Part of the book series: Aquatic Ecology Series ((AQEC,volume 4))

Abstract

Limnologists and water resources managers have traditionally perceived lakes as discrete geographical entities. This has resulted in a tendency for scientific lake studies to concentrate on lakes as individuals, with little connection either to each other or to large-scale driving forces. Since the 1990s, however, a shift in the prevailing paradigm has occurred, with lakes increasingly being seen as responding to regional, rather than local, driving forces. The seminal work on regional coherence in lake behaviour was that of Magnuson et al. (1990), who showed that many features of lakes within the same region respond coherently to drivers such as climate forcing and catchment processes. From this study it emerged that the degree of coherence among lakes is greatest for those properties most directly affected by climate forcing. Specifically, the physical properties of lakes tend to vary in a more coherent way than their chemical and biological properties (see also Kratz et al., 1998). Further overviews of the topics of coherence and climate-driven variability, focusing

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Acknowledgements

The CLIME project was supported under contract EVK1-CT-2002-00121 by the 5th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. The participation of DML and REH was made possible by funding from the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science. The authors gratefully acknowledge all individuals and institutes involved in collecting the data on which this chapter is based.

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  1. Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    David M. Livingstone

  2. Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, D-12587, Berlin, Germany

    Rita Adrian

  3. University of Helsinki, Lammi Biological Station, Pääjärventie 320, FI-16900, Lammi, Finland

    Lauri Arvola

  4. Erken Laboratory, Department of Ecology and Evolution, EBC, Uppsala University, Norr Malma 4200, SE-761 73, Norrtälje, Sweden

    Thorsten Blenckner

  5. Institute for Limnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Mondseestrasse 9, A-5310, Mondsee, Austria

    Martin T. Dokulil

  6. Department of Systems Analysis, Integrated Assessment and Modelling,Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    Renata E. Hari

  7. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, LA1 4AP, Lancaster, UK

    Glen George

  8. Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Ueberlandstrasse 133, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    Thomas Jankowski

  9. SYKE Jyväskylä, University of Jyväskylä, PO Box 35, FI-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Marko Järvinen

  10. Department of Applied Sciences, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Rd, Dundalk, Ireland

    Eleanor Jennings

  11. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014, Tartu, Estonia

    Peeter Nõges & Tiina Nõges

  12. Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Dietmar Straile

  13. Department of Ecology and Evolution/Limnology, Uppsala University, Norbygvagen 18D, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

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Livingstone, D.M. et al. (2010). Regional and Supra-Regional Coherence in Limnological Variables. In: George, G. (eds) The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes. Aquatic Ecology Series, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2945-4_17

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