UC Riverside hydrologist to study ecological impact of climate change on mountain lakes

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Because of extensive bedrock and little soil Sierra Nevada lakes are very sensitive to changing climate and increased atmospheric fallout of nutrients. Credit: James Sickman UC Riverside
Because of extensive bedrock and little soil, Sierra Nevada lakes are very sensitive to changing climate and increased atmospheric fallout of nutrients. Credit: James Sickman, UC Riverside

How does climate change affect the rate of atmospheric deposition of nutrients – elements or compounds essential to the growth and survival of organisms – into mountain lakes? And how do increases in the deposition of such nutrients threaten the lakes’ plant and animal species?


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