Is our understanding of aquatic ecosystems sufficient to quantify ecologically driven climate feedbacks?

CR Selden, R LaBrie, LC Ganley… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth functions as an integrated system—its current habitability to complex life is an
emergent property dependent on interactions among biological, chemical, and physical …

Anoxia begets anoxia: A positive feedback to the deoxygenation of temperate lakes

ASL Lewis, MP Lau, SF Jane, KC Rose… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Declining oxygen concentrations in the deep waters of lakes worldwide pose a pressing
environmental and societal challenge. Existing theory suggests that low deep‐water …

Predicting the presence of hypoxic hypolimnia in lakes at large spatial scales

R LaBrie, R Maranger - Limnology and Oceanography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lakes and reservoirs provide multiple essential ecosystem services to humans, and several
of these require the presence of a cool, oxygen‐rich hypolimnion. These ecosystem services …

The chemical succession in anoxic lake waters as source of molecular diversity of organic matter

MP Lau, RHS Hutchins, SE Tank, P A. del Giorgio - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The aquatic networks that connect soils with oceans receive each year 5.1 Pg of terrestrial
carbon to transport, bury and process. Stagnant sections of aquatic networks often become …

Oxygen evolution and its drivers in a stratified reservoir: A supply-side perspective for informing hypoxia alleviation strategies

Y Zhang, X Gao, B Sun, X Liu - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypoxia in stratified waters greatly threatens aquatic ecology and societal development
owing to enhanced nutrient discharge and increasing global temperature. Current research …

Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential

R Schwefel, LGT Nkwalale, S Jordan, K Rinke… - Ambio, 2024 - Springer
We investigated trends in temperature, stratification, and hypolimnetic oxygen concentration
of German lakes under climate change using observational data and hydrodynamic …

A simple model for predicting oxygen depletion in lakes under climate change

L Nkwalale, R Schwefel, M Yaghouti, K Rinke - Inland Waters, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The advent of climate change has placed aquatic ecosystems at risk for potential declines in
water quality, including an increase in the number of lakes experiencing substantial …