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Open AccessTreeline displacement may affect lake dissolved organic matter processing at high latitudes and altitudes
Climate change induced shifts in treeline position, both towards higher altitudes and latitudes induce changes in soil organic matter. Eventually, soil organic matter is transported to alpine and subarctic lak...
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Differences in food web structure and composition between new and nearby older lakes in West Greenland suggest succession trajectories driven by glacier retreat
With the retreat of glaciers, new ponds and lakes are often formed. These are gradually colonised and become more productive as vegetation develops in their catchments, creating more complex food webs. Near th...
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Open AccessGlobal data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes
Climate change and other anthropogenic stressors have led to long-term changes in the thermal structure, including surface temperatures, deepwater temperatures, and vertical thermal gradients, in many lakes ar...
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Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes
The concentration of dissolved oxygen in aquatic systems helps to regulate biodiversity1,2, nutrient biogeochemistry3, greenhouse gas emissions4, and the quality of drinking water5. The long-term declines in diss...
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Open AccessClimate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat
Lake surfaces are warming worldwide, raising concerns about lake organism responses to thermal habitat changes. Species may cope with temperature increases by shifting their seasonality or their depth to track...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Polinton-like viruses are abundant in aquatic ecosystems
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Open AccessPolinton-like viruses are abundant in aquatic ecosystems
Polintons are large mobile genetic elements found in the genomes of eukaryotic organisms that are considered the ancient ancestors of most eukaryotic dsDNA viruses. Originally considered as transposons, they h...
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Open AccessDeeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes
Globally, lake surface water temperatures have warmed rapidly relative to air temperatures, but changes in deepwater temperatures and vertical thermal structure are still largely unknown. We have compiled the ...
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Food Web Complexity of High Mountain Lakes is Largely Affected by Glacial Retreat
High mountain lakes provide essential ecosystem services and have a high conservation value. Therefore, understanding how glacier retreat will affect their ecological functioning and water quality is crucial. ...
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Open AccessStable species boundaries despite ten million years of hybridization in tropical eels
Genomic evidence is increasingly underpinning that hybridization between taxa is commonplace, challenging our views on the mechanisms that maintain their boundaries. Here, we focus on seven catadromous eel spe...
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Open AccessImportance of mixotrophic flagellates during the ice-free season in lakes located along an elevational gradient
Mixotrophy seems to be widespread among phytoplankton, but whether this strategy is more relevant in oligotrophic lakes remains unclear. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the relative abundance of mixotrophi...
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Water transparency affects the survival of the medusa stage of the invasive freshwater jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii
Craspedacusta sowerbii is a global invader of inland waters, but little is known on what environmental factors control its colonization success. We hypothesized that water transparency and thus, exposure to UV ra...
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Open AccessStoichiometry of natural bacterial assemblages from lakes located across an elevational gradient
Heterotrophic bacteria are thought to be phosphorus-rich organisms with relatively homeostatic stoichiometry, but the elemental composition of natural bacterial communities has rarely been assessed. Here we te...
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Open AccessDistribution and UV protection strategies of zooplankton in clear and glacier-fed alpine lakes
Zooplankton, a group of aquatic animals important as trophic link in the food web, are exposed to high levels of UV radiation (UVR) in clear alpine lakes, while in turbid glacier-fed lakes they are more protec...
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Open AccessCorrection: Corrigendum: Are viruses important in the plankton of highly turbid glacier-fed lakes?
Scientific Reports 6: Article number: 24608; published online: 20 April 2016; updated: 07 July 2016 In this Article, references 30 and 31 are not listed in the correct order. The correct references are listed ...
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Open AccessAre viruses important in the plankton of highly turbid glacier-fed lakes?
Viruses are ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems where they significantly contribute to microbial mortality. In glacier-fed turbid lakes, however, viruses not only encounter low host abundances, but also a high nu...
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The contribution of mycosporine-like amino acids, chromophoric dissolved organic matter and particles to the UV protection of sea-ice organisms in the Baltic Sea
The effects of ultraviolet radiation (UVR) on the synthesis of mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) in sea-ice communities and on the other UV-absorption properties of sea ice were studied in a three-week long in ...
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Open AccessNegative consequences of glacial turbidity for the survival of freshwater planktonic heterotrophic flagellates
Heterotrophic (phagotrophic) flagellates are key components of planktonic food webs in freshwater and marine ecosystems because they are the main consumers of bacteria. Although they are ubiquitous in aquatic ...
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At the edge and on the top: molecular identification and ecology of Daphnia dentifera and D. longispina in high-altitude Asian lakes
The occurrence of members of the highly diverse Daphnia longispina complex in Southern and Central Asian high-mountain lakes has been recognized for more than a century. Until now, however, no molecular data have...
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Open AccessContrasting effects of ultraviolet radiation on the growth efficiency of freshwater bacteria
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the growth efficiency of freshwater bacteria is differentially affected by ultraviolet radiation (UVR, 280–400 nm) as mediated through changes in their production a...
