Sentences with phrase «how lake ecosystems»

We have already started a project aiming to study how lake ecosystems are affected by historical climate changes.

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NEON will monitor how large - scale problems such as climate change, pollution and urban sprawl affect ecosystems as diverse as the Great Lakes and Hawaii.

Science also tells us things that are hard to hear and that we don't know how to fix: Climate change is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and, new research shows, even affecting the ecosystems in our beloved lakes.

Lead author Hilary Dugan, a limnologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and former Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, explains, «We compiled long - term data, and compared chloride concentrations in North American lakes and reservoirs to climate and land use patterns, with the goal of revealing whether, how, and why salinization is changing across broad geographic scales.

Since the discovery, California officials have taken measures to control the outbreak at Pinto Lake, but the discovery illustrates how marine mammals like sea otters act as warning signals for near - shore ecosystems, Miller said.

«Lake Baikal: Protection of a unique ecosystem: Researchers are investigating how climate change and environmental toxins are impacting on the world's largest and oldest freshwater lake.&raLake Baikal: Protection of a unique ecosystem: Researchers are investigating how climate change and environmental toxins are impacting on the world's largest and oldest freshwater lake.&ralake.»

Samples of microorganisms collected in Lake Vostok are currently being studied, and Christner and Achberger are looking to understand the organisms, environment below the ice and how the lake runoff can affect diversity of the surrounding ecosysLake Vostok are currently being studied, and Christner and Achberger are looking to understand the organisms, environment below the ice and how the lake runoff can affect diversity of the surrounding ecosyslake runoff can affect diversity of the surrounding ecosystem.

«From 2015 - 2017, we completed more than 50 mesocosm experiments to understand how a range of human impacts affect lake ecosystems and overall water quality,» Relyea remarks.

There's still a host of unanswered questions about the residents of Lake Whillans and how they contribute to the ecosystem of the Southern Ocean.

They plan follow - up studies to better understand how lake and river ecosystems are affected, as the number of days they spend «on ice» continues to melt away.

It is a large lake but a fragile one and this film points out how war and poverty often provide mankind with no choice but to introduce destructive species into ecosystems.

In this premiere episode of the Parks Conservancy's new podcast *, «From Seed to Ecosystem,» correspondent Sami Fink explores how we choose project sites, explains how they become «stewardship sites,» and checks on the progress of the Mountain Lake restoration work, in interviews with Eric Klein (Parks Conservancy Restoration Specialist) and Jason Lisenby (Presidio Trust Biological Science Technician).