Salting our freshwater lakes

The highest densities of lakes on Earth are in north temperate ecosystems, where increasing urbanization and associated chloride runoff can salinize freshwaters and threaten lake water quality and the many ecosystem services lakes provide. However, the extent to which lake salinity may be changing a...

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Published in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 2017-04, Vol.114 (17), p.4453-4458
Main Authors: Summers, Jamie C, Bartlett, Sarah L, McCullough, Ian M, Roberts, Derek C, Weathers, Kathleen C, Skaff, Nicholas K, Farrell, Kaitlin J, Morales Williams, Ana M, Ouyang, Zutao, Hanson, Paul C, Burke, Samantha M, Dugan, Hilary A, Krivak Tetley, Flora E, Scordo, Facundo, Doubek, Jonathan P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aquatic ecosystems
Aquatic environment
Aquatic life
Aquatic organisms
Biological Sciences
Chlorides
Ecosystem services
Environmental protection
Environmental Sciences
Freshwater lakes
Lakes
Lakes - chemistry
Land cover
Runoff
Salinity
Salinization
Salting
Sodium Chloride - chemistry
Trends
United States
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Urbanization
Water Pollutants - chemistry
Water quality
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