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Decadal-scale variability and warming affect spring timing and forest growth across the western Great Lakes region
The Great Lakes region of North America has warmed by 1–2 °C on average since pre-industrial times, with the most pronounced changes observable...
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Laurentian Great Lakes warming threatens northern fruit belt refugia
Climate refugia are anomalous “pockets” of spatially or temporally disjunct environmental conditions that buffer distinct flora and fauna against...
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Biogeochemical Processes and Microbial Dynamics Governing Phosphorus Retention and Release in Sediments: A Case Study in Lower Great Lakes Headwaters
The ability of headwater bed and suspended sediments to mitigate non-point agricultural phosphorus (P) loads to the lower Great Lakes is recognized,...
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Climate Change and Its Implications on Food Security in the Great Lakes Region
Climate change (CC) is an existential threatThreats globally, and the Great Lakes RegionGreat Lakes Region (GLR) is not immune to the impacts of...
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An assessment and characterization of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) within the Great Lakes Basin: Mussel Watch Program (2013–2018)
Defining the environmental occurrence and distribution of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs), including pharmaceuticals and personal care products...
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Characterization of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Great Lakes Basin using dreissenid mussels
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) Mussel Watch Program (MWP), conducts...
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Climate-driven deoxygenation of northern lakes
Oxygen depletion constitutes a major threat to lake ecosystems and the services they provide. Most of the world’s lakes are located >45° N, where...
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Forecasting environmental water availability of lakes using temporal fusion transformer: case studies of China’s two largest freshwater lakes
Preserving lacustrine ecosystems is vital for sustainable watershed development, and forecasting the environmental water availability of lakes would...
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Assessment of shoreline restoration using macroinvertebrates in a Great Lakes Area of Concern
Macroinvertebrate community assemblages were examined in three areas of the littoral zone of an impacted, drowned river mouth lake in west Michigan,...
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Protection of Great Lakes Soils
Key environmental problems in the Great Lakes region are (i) reductions of the water levels from withdrawals and human-caused climate change; (ii)...
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Status and changes of water quality in typical near-city zones of three East African Great Lakes in Tanzania
Tanzania is the only country bordering all three transboundary East African Great Lakes, i.e., Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Nyasa (Lake...
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Informing Public Engagement Strategies to Motivate the Public to Protect the Great Lakes: Lessons learned from the 2018 Great Lakes Basin Binational Poll
Engaging the public in protecting water resources is a critical yet challenging task. A wealth of social science studies has identified psychological...
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Ammonia distribution and ecological risk assessment in nine fresh lakes in China
With the development of industry and economy, ammonia nitrogen pollutions in surface water are of great concern worldwide. This study investigated...
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Major changes in fish thermal habitat diversity in Canada’s Arctic lakes due to climate change
Climate warming is a major disruptor of fish community structure globally. We use large-scale geospatial analyses of 447,077 Canadian Arctic lakes to...
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Multi-scale response relationship between water quality of rivers entering lakes from different pollution source areas and land use intensity: a case study of the three lakes in central Yunnan
As the main supply source of lakes, the water quality of the rivers entering the lakes directly determines the water safety and sustainable...
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Pedodiversity of the Great Lakes Coastal Zone
Based on the density of soil seriesSoil, series within 5 km of the shorelines, all five of the Great Lakes have a high level of...
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Soils of the Great Lakes Coastal Zone
The previous chapter outlined the taxonomic structure of soils and soil-forming factors in the Great Lakes Coastal Zone, recognizing that Alfisols...
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Chemical, biochemical, and bioactivity studies on some soda lakes, Wadi El-Natrun, Egypt
Wadi El-Natrun is one of the most observable geomorphological features in the North-Western Desert of Egypt; it contains several old saline and...
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Seasonal sediment phosphate release flux of shallow lakes impacted by dual environmental factors
PurposeIt is a difficult task to predict the phosphate release flux from sediments in shallow lakes in different seasons due to the uncertainty of...
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Review of microplastics in lakes: sources, distribution characteristics, and environmental effects
Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants that damage lake ecosystems by enriching pollutants. This study investigated the current state of MPs in lakes...
