Empirical Predictors of Annual Surface Water Temperature Cycles in North American Lakes

Shuter, Brian J.; Schlesinger, David A.; Zimmerman, Arthur M.

doi:10.1139/f83-213

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“…When considered over all lakes, climate and its interactions with other factors (C, CU, CR, CUR) accounted for 40.1 Ϯ 20.9% of past variation in chironomid assemblages, even at sites known to be eutrophic because of urban sewage (Fishing Lakes;Hall et al 1999a;Dixit et al 2000). In particular, factors related to the severity of winter climate (fall and winter minimum temperature, duration of ice cover; Shuter et al 1983) were significant predictors of community variance at six of eight sites. We note with interest that summer temperature was retained in only two analyses, despite the wide use of fossil chironomid communities in paleoclimatic reconstructions of mean summer thermal conditions (e.g., Walker et al 1991;Lotter et al 1999).…”

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Landscape effects of climate, agriculture, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities of Canadian prairie lakes

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Leavitt

Dixit

et al. 2002

Limnology & Oceanography

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Paleoecological analyses of fossil chironomid assemblages from eight lakes of the Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada, were used to quantify the relative influence of climate, resource use, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities 1850-1995. Fossil analyses inferred that Qu'Appelle lakes are naturally productive but that invertebrate communities were altered by agriculture and urbanization. In western lakes, rates of community change (chord distance per 5 yr) were low and nonsignificant (P Ͼ 0.05) prior to European settlement, but increased twofold after ϳ1930-1940. In contrast, uniformly significant rates of community change were recorded in eastern downstream lakes only after the 1960s. In both cases, high rates of change corresponded to alterations in the balance between deep-water (Chironomus) and littoral species (Cladotanytarsus mancus group, Tanytarsus s.lat. [s.l.]).Comparison of historical and fossil time series (ϳ1920-1993) using variance partitioning analysis (VPA) explained up to 86.6% of past variations in chironomid community composition. Unexpectedly, climate (winter temperature) explained a significant (P Ͻ 0.05) and substantial (mean Ϯ SD, n ϭ 8; 24.8 Ϯ 21.9%) amount of community variance at all sites except Round Lake. In contrast, land-use practices exhibited significant but less substantial (6.7 Ϯ 6.1%, n ϭ 8) impacts on zoobenthos of five lakes, whereas significant urban impacts (3.6 Ϯ 7.5%, n ϭ 8) were recorded only at two sites. Similarly, redundancy analysis showed that minimum winter or spring temperature significantly influenced the relative abundance of littoral taxa in seven lakes. Such strong effects of climate on benthic invertebrate communities contrast its weak effects on phytoplankton in these lakes and suggest that future environmental change may be expressed differentially among habitats.

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Landscape effects of climate, agriculture, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities of Canadian prairie lakes

Quinlan

Leavitt

Dixit

et al. 2002

Limnology & Oceanography

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“…In this case, T base was set at 5 • C as this temperature has previously been used to describe the walleye growing season (Kitchell et al, 1977;Neuheimer and Taggart, 2007;Shuter et al, 1983;Venturelli et al, 2010). The GDD were summed from April 1st through September 30th for all days in which the average air temperature was ≥5 • C. The GDD were used instead of water temperatures because air temperatures are more widely available and water and air temperatures are closely correlated (Livingstone and Padisak, 2007;Quist et al, 2003;Shuter et al, 1983). Daily reservoir elevation data were obtained from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR, 2011).…”

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Degree-day accumulation influences annual variability in growth of age-0 walleye

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a b s t r a c tThe growth of age-0 fishes influences survival, especially in temperate regions where size-dependent over-winter mortality can be substantial. Additional benefits of earlier maturation and greater fecundity may exist for faster growing individuals. This study correlated prey densities, growing-degree days, water-surface elevation, turbidity, and chlorophyll a with age-0 walleye Sander vitreus growth in a southcentral Nebraska irrigation reservoir. Growth of age-0 walleye was variable between 2003 and 2011, with mean lengths ranging from 128 to 231 mm by fall (September 30th-October 15th). A set of a priori candidate models were used to assess the relative support of explanatory variables using Akaike's information criterion (AIC). A temperature model using the growing degree-days metric was the best supported model, describing 65% of the variability in annual mean lengths of age-0 walleye. The second and third best supported models included the variables chlorophyll a (r 2 = 0.49) and larval freshwater drum density (r 2 = 0.45), respectively. There have been mixed results concerning the importance of temperature effects on growth of age-0 walleye. This study supports the hypothesis that temperature is the most important predictor of age-0 walleye growth near the southwestern limits of its natural range.

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“…Air temperature is involved in several of these processes (Edinger et al, 1968;Sweers, 1976), so that lake surface water temperature (LSWT) often follows air temperature quite closely, allowing LSWT to be modelled well empirically as a function of air temperature alone (e.g., McCombie, 1959;Webb, 1974;Shuter et al, 1983;Lister et al, 1998;Kettle et al, 2004). …”

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Water temperatures and ice cover in lakes of the Tatra Mountains

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In 2000 and 2001, miniature thermistors with integrated data loggers were employed to measure lake surface water temperatures (LSWTs) and temperature profiles in high-altitude mountain lakes lying between 1580 and 2145 m a.s.l. on both the Slovak and Polish sides of the Tatra Mountains. This allowed the annual cycle of water temperatures and ice cover in these lakes to be described quantitatively, and their dependence on lake altitude above sea level to be investigated. LSWTs in the Tatra Mountains are found to decrease approximately linearly with increasing altitude from late spring to autumn. LSWT in summer can be modelled well in terms of exponentially smoothed ambient air temperature. Although the timing of ice-off is dependent on altitude, the timing of ice-on is not; the dependence of the duration of ice cover on altitude is therefore wholly due to the altitudinal dependence of the timing of ice-off. The temperature profile measurements allow quantitative characterization of summer and winter stagnation, and spring and autumn turnover.

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Empirical Predictors of Annual Surface Water Temperature Cycles in North American Lakes

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Landscape effects of climate, agriculture, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities of Canadian prairie lakes

Landscape effects of climate, agriculture, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities of Canadian prairie lakes

Degree-day accumulation influences annual variability in growth of age-0 walleye

Water temperatures and ice cover in lakes of the Tatra Mountains

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