The Effects of Climate Change on an Alpine Lake System, a Mesocosm Experiment

• Main Author: Olivier, Matthew Richard
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2017
• Subjects: alpine lakes; climate change; dissolved organic matter; flowcam; fluorescence spectroscopy; phytoplankton; Biogeochemistry; Environmental Studies; Water Resource Management; Alpine Lake; Arctic; Climate change; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/envs_gradetds/65; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=envs_gradetds

Much like in the arctic, organisms inhabiting alpine ecosystems are living at the edge of their environmental tolerances, and are thus sensitive to small changes in climate. Algal communities of alpine lakes are particularly useful as indicators of environmental change due to the fact that they are...