Climate change affects lakes. What can we do?: Policy brief, June 26, 2023
| dc.contributor.author | Tuvikene, Lea | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nõges, Peeter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-08T08:48:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-08T08:48:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | ✓ Lake ecosystems provide vital services for humanity, but, due to global climate change, the quality and quantity of these services is decreasing. ✓ Lakes supply us with clean water and fish, they regulate nutrient cycling and modify climate change effects by controlling floods and the amount of CO2, which is the main cause of climate warming. In an urbanizing world, the aesthetic and recreational importance of lakes for human well-being is increasing. ✓ Changes in temperature, precipitation and wind affect lake levels and water availability, alter the distribution of oxygen and nutrients, and impact the survival and abundance of aquatic organisms: algal blooms expand causing massive fish kills. ✓ Understanding these mutual interactions through improved climate models, monitoring of water quality, and assessing ecosystem health is crucial for managing and mitigating the impacts of climate change on lakes. ✓ As the impact of eutrophication and climate change follow the same pathways affecting nutrient availability and cascading effects in the food web, establishing stricter control over anthropogenic nutrient loading is the most efficient adaptive strategy to preserve the ecological integrity of lakes and the services they provide. | eng |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951963, TREICLAKE (Towards research excellence and innovation capacity in studying lake ecosystem functional structures and climate change impact) and the Estonian Research Council grants PRG709 and PRG1167. | eng |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10492/8672 | |
| dc.publisher | Estonian University of Life Sciences | eng |
| dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/951963/EU/TREICLAKE | eng |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY 4.0 | eng |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | eng |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 | |
| dc.subject | climate change | eng |
| dc.title | Climate change affects lakes. What can we do?: Policy brief, June 26, 2023 | eng |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/report | eng |
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