Biological responses to the chemical recovery of acidified fresh waters in the UK

Monteith, Donald T.; Hildrew, Alan G.; Flower, Roger J.; Raven, Paul; Beaumont, W.R.B.; Collen, P.; Kreiser, AM; Shilland, Ewan M.; Winterbottom, Julie H.

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2004.12.026

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“…A few studies on the ecological impact of pollution address the problem of lake acidification in the 19th and 20th centuries ce (e.g. Monteith et al, 2005;Schindler, 1988) and the issue of atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen (Nr) since the start of the 20th century (e.g. Hastings et al, 2009).…”

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First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Dubois

Saulnier‐Talbot

Mills

et al. 2017

The Anthropocene Review

114

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Lake sediments constitute natural archives of past environmental changes. Historically, research has focused mainly on generating regional climate records, but records of human impacts caused by land use and exploitation of freshwater resources are now attracting scientific and management interests. Long-term environmental records are useful to establish ecosystem reference conditions, enabling comparisons with current environments and potentially allowing future trajectories to be more tightly constrained. Here we review the timing and onset of human disturbance in and around inland water ecosystems as revealed through sedimentary archives from around the world. Palaeolimnology provides access to a wealth of information reflecting early human activities and their corresponding aquatic ecological shifts. First human impacts on aquatic systems and their watersheds are highly variable in time and space. Landscape disturbance often constitutes the first anthropogenic signal in palaeolimnological records. While the effects of humans at the landscape level are relatively easily demonstrated, the earliest signals of humaninduced changes in the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems need very careful investigation using multiple proxies. Additional studies will improve our understanding of linkages between human settlements, their exploitation of land and water resources, and the downstream effects on continental waters.

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First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Dubois

Saulnier‐Talbot

Mills

et al. 2017

The Anthropocene Review

114

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“…However, hysteresis, time lags between a pressure change and the corresponding change in the communities, non-linear responses, points of no return and climate changes, may create confounding effects in the evaluation of systems recovery (Lyytimä ki and Hildé n, 2007;Jeppesen et al, 2005;Monteith et al, 2005). Therefore, these factors should be considered when analyzing cause-effect relationships in a recovery process and future developments in predictive modeling may consider predictions in climate change scenarios.…”

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Water quality assessment of Portuguese streams: Regional or national predictive models?

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Norris

Graça

et al. 2009

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“…Given many successful efforts to reduce both acid deposition and liquid industrial effluents to receiving waters, the attention of aquatic ecologists has turned to what factors regulate the pace, extent and dynamics of recovery of previously damaged communities (Monteith et al, 2005;Keller et al, 2007). For lakes that were historically damaged by atmospheric acid inputs, both external (colonist delivery to the pelagic community from the metacommunity or egg bank) and internal (colonist survival and growth) factors may be important, and which are more important can vary among lake regions and over time (Gray and Arnott, 2012).…”

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Mechanisms underlying recovery of zooplankton in Lake Orta after liming

2016

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The goal of this study was to improve the understanding of the large-scale mechanisms underlying the recovery of the zooplankton of Lake Orta from historical contamination, following reduced input of ammonia and metals and the subsequent 1989/90 liming intervention. The industrial pollution had been severe and long-lasting (1929-1990 2001 and 2007 (0.55 and 0.72 for rotifers, 0.85 and 0.86 for crustacean, respectively), much higher than in limed lakes in Sudbury, Canada, and in adjacent Lake Maggiore. We hypothesize this could be related to the lack of Cladoceran predators and zooplanktivorous fish in the pelagic waters of Lake Orta.

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Biological responses to the chemical recovery of acidified fresh waters in the UK

Cited by 113 publications

References 52 publications

First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world

Water quality assessment of Portuguese streams: Regional or national predictive models?

Mechanisms underlying recovery of zooplankton in Lake Orta after liming

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