Climate Change and the World's “Sacred Sea”—Lake Baikal, Siberia
Lake Baikal—the world's largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake—is responding strongly to climate change, according to recent analyses of water temperature and ice cover. By the end of this century, the climate of the Baikal region will be warmer and wetter, particularly in winter. As...
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ftbioone:10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8 2024-05-12T08:05:03+00:00 Climate Change and the World's “Sacred Sea”—Lake Baikal, Siberia Marianne V. Moore Stephanie E. Hampton Lyubov R. Izmest'Eva Eugene A. Silow Ekaterina V. Peshkova Boris K. Pavlov Marianne V. Moore Stephanie E. Hampton Lyubov R. Izmest'Eva Eugene A. Silow Ekaterina V. Peshkova Boris K. Pavlov world 2009-05-01 text/HTML https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8 en eng American Institute of Biological Sciences doi:10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8 All rights reserved. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8 Text 2009 ftbioone https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2009.59.5.8 2024-04-16T02:13:36Z Lake Baikal—the world's largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake—is responding strongly to climate change, according to recent analyses of water temperature and ice cover. By the end of this century, the climate of the Baikal region will be warmer and wetter, particularly in winter. As the climate changes, ice cover and transparency, water temperature, wind dynamics and mixing, and nutrient levels are the key abiotic variables that will shift, thus eliciting many biotic responses. Among the abiotic variables, changes in ice cover will quite likely alter food-web structure and function most because of the diverse ways in which ice affects the lake's dominant primary producers (endemic diatoms), the top predator (the world's only freshwater seal), and other abiotic variables. Melting permafrost will probably exacerbate the effects of additional anthropogenic stressors (industrial pollution and cultural eutrophication) and could greatly affect ecosystem functioning. Text Ice permafrost Siberia BioOne Online Journals BioScience 59 5 405 417 |
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Lake Baikal—the world's largest, oldest, and most biotically diverse lake—is responding strongly to climate change, according to recent analyses of water temperature and ice cover. By the end of this century, the climate of the Baikal region will be warmer and wetter, particularly in winter. As the climate changes, ice cover and transparency, water temperature, wind dynamics and mixing, and nutrient levels are the key abiotic variables that will shift, thus eliciting many biotic responses. Among the abiotic variables, changes in ice cover will quite likely alter food-web structure and function most because of the diverse ways in which ice affects the lake's dominant primary producers (endemic diatoms), the top predator (the world's only freshwater seal), and other abiotic variables. Melting permafrost will probably exacerbate the effects of additional anthropogenic stressors (industrial pollution and cultural eutrophication) and could greatly affect ecosystem functioning. |
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