Lakes in Hot Water: The Impacts of a Changing Climate on Aquatic Ecosystems

Global mapping reveals increase in lacustrine algal blooms over the past decade

(2022) Xuejiao Hou et al.   Nature Geoscience

Lake heatwaves under climate change

(2021) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   NATURE

Increased outburst flood hazard from Lake Palcacocha due to human-induced glacier retreat

(2021) R. F. Stuart-Smith et al.   Nature Geoscience

Multi-decadal improvement in US Lake water clarity

(2021) Simon N Topp et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Increasingly severe cyanobacterial blooms and deep water hypoxia coincide with warming water temperatures in reservoirs

(2021) Nathan J. Smucker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide

(2021) Christophe Diagne et al.   NATURE

Phenological shifts in lake stratification under climate change

(2021) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of warm habitat to the growth regime of cold-water fishes

(2021) Jonathan B. Armstrong et al.   Nature Climate Change

Are Northern Lakes in Relatively Intact Temperate Forests Showing Signs of Increasing Phytoplankton Biomass?

(2021) Aleksey Paltsev et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Phosphorus-only fertilization rapidly initiates large nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria blooms in two oligotrophic lakes

(2021) Lewis A Molot et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high‐nutrient paradigm

(2021) Kaitlin L. Reinl et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

(2021) Stephen F. Jane et al.   NATURE

Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

(2021) Benjamin M. Kraemer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Compound hot temperature and high chlorophyll extreme events in global lakes

(2021) R Iestyn Woolway et al.   Environmental Research Letters

No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes

(2021) Grace M Wilkinson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Predicting Thermal Responses of an Arctic Lake to Whole‐Lake Warming Manipulation

(2021) Qunhui Zhang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing

(2021) Luke Grant et al.   Nature Geoscience

Warming winters in lakes: Later ice onset promotes consumer overwintering and shapes springtime planktonic food webs

(2021) Marie-Pier Hébert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The state and fate of lake ice thickness in the Northern Hemisphere

(2021) Xingdong Li et al.   Science Bulletin

Impact of salinization on lake stratification and spring mixing

(2021) Robert Ladwig et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

The case for research integration, from genomics to remote sensing, to understand biodiversity change and functional dynamics in the world’s lakes

(2020) Stephen J. Thackeray et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Arctic freshwater fish productivity and colonization increase with climate warming

(2020) Steven E. Campana et al.   Nature Climate Change

Impacts of co‐occurring environmental changes on Alaskan stream fishes

(2020) Alyssa Murdoch et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Mixing, stratification, and plankton under lake‐ice during winter in a large lake: Implications for spring dissolved oxygen levels

(2020) Bernard Yang et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Thermal bottlenecks in the life cycle define climate vulnerability of fish

(2020) Flemming T. Dahlke et al.   SCIENCE

Intermittent meromixis controls the trophic state of warming deep lakes

(2020) Maximilian P. Lau et al.   Scientific Reports

Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems

(2020) Sebastian Birk et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Warming winters threaten peripheral Arctic charr populations of Europe

(2020) Seán Kelly et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate velocity in inland standing waters

(2020) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   Nature Climate Change

Rapid worldwide growth of glacial lakes since 1990

(2020) Dan H. Shugar et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forecasting the Permanent Loss of Lake Ice in the Northern Hemisphere Within the 21st Century

(2020) Sapna Sharma et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes

(2020) Rachel M. Pilla et al.   Scientific Reports

Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

(2019) Sapna Sharma et al.   Nature Climate Change

Worldwide alteration of lake mixing regimes in response to climate change

(2019) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   Nature Geoscience

Substantial increase in minimum lake surface temperatures under climate change

(2019) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Climate variability promotes unprecedented cyanobacterial blooms in a remote, oligotrophic Ontario lake: evidence from paleolimnology

(2019) Elizabeth J. Favot et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Fish die-offs are concurrent with thermal extremes in north temperate lakes

(2019) Aaron Till et al.   Nature Climate Change

Widespread global increase in intense lake phytoplankton blooms since the 1980s

(2019) Jeff C. Ho et al.   NATURE

A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

(2019) Zhenzhong Zeng et al.   Nature Climate Change

Mapping Evapotranspiration, Vegetation and Precipitation Trends in the Catchment of the Shrinking Lake Poopó

(2019) Juan Torres-Batlló et al.   Remote Sensing

Annual stratification patterns in tropical mountain lakes reflect altered thermal regimes in response to climate change

(2018) Andrew L. Labaj et al.   Fundamental and Applied Limnology

Global lake evaporation accelerated by changes in surface energy allocation in a warmer climate

(2018) Wei Wang et al.   Nature Geoscience

The world’s largest High Arctic lake responds rapidly to climate warming

(2018) Igor Lehnherr et al.   Nature Communications

Emerging trends in global freshwater availability

(2018) M. Rodell et al.   NATURE

Using lakes and rivers for extraction and disposal of heat: Estimate of regional potentials

(2018) Adrien Gaudard et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

From dimictic to monomictic: Empirical evidence of thermal regime transitions in three deep alpine lakes in Austria induced by climate change

(2017) Harald Ficker et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Unexpected stasis in a changing world: Lake nutrient and chlorophyll trends since 1990

(2017) Samantha K. Oliver et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaporation from a shallow, saline lake in the Nebraska Sandhills: Energy balance drivers of seasonal and interannual variability

(2017) Diego A. Riveros-Iregui et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Extreme precipitation and phosphorus loads from two agricultural watersheds

(2017) Stephen R. Carpenter et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Decline of the world's saline lakes

(2017) Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh et al.   Nature Geoscience

Behavioral responses to annual temperature variation alter the dominant energy pathway, growth, and condition of a cold-water predator

(2017) Matthew M. Guzzo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Salting our freshwater lakes

(2017) Hilary A. Dugan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The impact of water quality in Narragansett Bay on housing prices

(2017) Tingting Liu et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Anthropogenic climate change has altered primary productivity in Lake Superior

(2017) M. D. O’Beirne et al.   Nature Communications

Climatic vulnerability of the world’s freshwater and marine fishes

(2017) Lise Comte et al.   Nature Climate Change

Alpine glacier-fed turbid lakes are discontinuous cold polymictic rather than dimictic

(2017) Hannes Peter et al.   Inland Waters

Ice-cover is the principal driver of ecological change in High Arctic lakes and ponds

(2017) Katherine Griffiths et al.   PLoS One

Amplified surface temperature response of cold, deep lakes to inter-annual air temperature variability

(2017) R. Iestyn Woolway et al.   Scientific Reports

Abrupt stop of deep water turnover with lake warming: Drastic consequences for algal primary producers

(2017) Yana Yankova et al.   Scientific Reports

Blooming algae: a Canadian perspective on the rise of toxic cyanobacteria

(2016) Frances R. Pick   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Examining the effects of climate change and species invasions on Ontario walleye populations: can walleye beat the heat?

(2016) Thomas M. Van Zuiden et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecology under lake ice

(2016) Stephanie E. Hampton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The future Aral Sea: hope and despair

(2016) Philip Micklin   Environmental Earth Sciences

High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes

(2016) Jean-François Pekel et al.   NATURE

Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems

(2016) Andrew S. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

(2015) Catherine M. O'Reilly et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Arctic and Sub-Arctic shallow lakes in a multiple-stressor world: a paleoecological perspective

(2015) John P. Smol   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Ecological impacts of global warming and water abstraction on lakes and reservoirs due to changes in water level and related changes in salinity

(2015) Erik Jeppesen et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Lake diatom responses to warming: reviewing the evidence

(2015) Kathleen M. Rühland et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Short winters threaten temperate fish populations

(2015) Troy M. Farmer et al.   Nature Communications

Declining availability of outdoor skating in Canada

(2015) Jeremy R. Brammer et al.   Nature Climate Change

Under-ice thermal stratification dynamics of a large, deep lake revealed by high-frequency data

(2015) Denise A. Bruesewitz et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate Change Forces New Ecological States in Tropical Andean Lakes

(2015) Neal Michelutti et al.   PLoS One

A global inventory of lakes based on high-resolution satellite imagery

(2014) Charles Verpoorter et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Road salt application differentially threatens water resources in Lake George, New York

(2014) Mark W. Swinton et al.   LAKE AND RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT

Small Changes in Climate Can Profoundly Alter the Dynamics and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Crater Lakes

(2014) Émilie Saulnier-Talbot et al.   PLoS One

Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication

(2014) Brian Moss   Inland Waters

Increasing chloride concentrations in Lake Constance: characterization of sources and estimation of loads

(2011) Beat Müller et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Enlightening Global Dimming and Brightening

(2011) Martin Wild   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Global review and synthesis of trends in observed terrestrial near-surface wind speeds: Implications for evaporation

(2011) Tim R. McVicar et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Algal blooms in Ontario, Canada: Increases in reports since 1994

(2011) Jennifer G. Winter et al.   LAKE AND RESERVOIR MANAGEMENT

Lakes as sentinels of climate change

(2011) Rita Adrian et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Lakes and reservoirs as sentinels, integrators, and regulators of climate change

(2011) Craig E. Williamson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Increase of extreme events in a warming world

(2011) S. Rahmstorf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Methane emissions from permafrost thaw lakes limited by lake drainage

(2011) J. van Huissteden et al.   Nature Climate Change

Coldwater fish oxythermal habitat in Minnesota lakes: influence of total phosphorus, July air temperature, and relative depth

(2010) Peter C. Jacobson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

The power of the past: using sediments to track the effects of multiple stressors on lake ecosystems

(2010) JOHN P. SMOL   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Trophic level asynchrony in rates of phenological change for marine, freshwater and terrestrial environments

(2010) STEPHEN J. THACKERAY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diatom-inferred Holocene climatic and environmental changes in an unusually subsaline high Arctic nunatak pond on Ellesmere Island (Nunavut, Canada)

(2010) C. A. Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY

Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500

(2010) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   Nature Geoscience

Northern Hemisphere atmospheric stilling partly attributed to an increase in surface roughness

(2010) Robert Vautard et al.   Nature Geoscience

Two-Decade Reconstruction of Algal Blooms in China’s Lake Taihu

(2009) Hongtao Duan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

The Influence of Dissolved Oxygen on Winter Habitat Selection by Largemouth Bass: An Integration of Field Biotelemetry Studies and Laboratory Experiments

(2009) C. T. Hasler et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Salinization of Mirror Lake by Road Salt

(2009) Gene E. Likens et al.   WATER AIR AND SOIL POLLUTION

Stratification of lakes

(2008) Bertram Boehrer et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

CLIMATE: Blooms Like It Hot

(2008) H. W. Paerl et al.   SCIENCE