Mountain lakes are often situated in protected natural areas, a feature that leads to their role
as sentinels of global environmental change. Despite variations in latitude, mountain lakes …

Lake ecosystems and the services that they provide to people are profoundly influenced by
dissolved organic matter derived from terrestrial plant tissues. These terrestrial dissolved …

While there is a general sense that lakes can act as sentinels of climate change, their
efficacy has not been thoroughly analyzed. We identified the key response variables within a …

Climate change is generating complex responses in both natural and human ecosystems
that vary in their geographic distribution, magnitude, and timing across the global landscape …

Traditional approaches to the study of food webs emphasize the transfer of local primary
productivity in the form of living plant organic matter across trophic levels. However, dead …

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations in lakes are changing globally, but little is
known about potential ecosystem impacts. We evaluated the relationship between DOC and …

Browning of inland waters has been noted over large parts of the Northern hemisphere and
is a phenomenon with both ecological and societal consequences. The increase in water …

Colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) absorbs a substantial fraction of
photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) in boreal lakes. However, few studies have …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) composition in freshwater ecosystems is influenced by the
interactions among physical, chemical, and biological processes that are controlled, at one …

Freshwaters of the boreal and temperate regions have experienced increased browning
during the last decades. Browning, or brownification, is mostly driven by increased organic …