Coupling between primary terrestrial succession and the trophic development of lakes at Glacier Bay, Alaska

• Main Authors: Engstrom, D. R., Fritz, Sherilyn C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2006
• Subjects: diatom accumulation; Glacier Bay; lake ontogeny; nitrogen; primary production; primary succession; Earth Sciences; Lower Bay; Bay Lake; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/26; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1025/viewcontent/Fritz_JP_2006_Coupling__DC_VERSION__optimized.pdf

The natural eutrophication of lakes is still an accepted concept in limnology, arising as it does from the earliest efforts to classify lakes and place them in an evolutionary sequence. Recent studies of newly formed lakes at Glacier Bay, Alaska, only partially support this idea, and suggest more va...