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de Toledo MB, Baulch HM. Variability of sedimentary phosphorus composition across Canadian lakes. Environ Res 2023; 236:116654. [PMID: 37487921 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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Phosphorus (P) in lake sediments is stored within diverse forms, often associated with metals, minerals, and organic matter. Sediment P can be remobilized to the water column, but the environmental conditions influencing the P retention-release balance depend upon the sediment chemistry and forms of P present. Sequential fractionation approaches can be used to help understand forms of P present in the sediments, and their vulnerability to release. We assessed P composition in surficial sediments (as an assemblage of six P-fractions) and its relationship with watershed, and lake-specific explanatory variables from 236 lakes across Canada. Sediment P composition varied widely across the 12 sampled Canadian ecozones. The dominant P-fractions were the residual-P and the labile organic P, while the loosely bound P corresponded to the smallest proportion of sediment TP. Notable contrasts in sediment P composition were apparent across select regions - with the most significant differences between sediment P in lakes from the mid-West Canada region (Prairies and Boreal Plains ecozones) and both Eastern coastal (Atlantic Maritime and Atlantic Highlands) and Western coastal (Pacific Maritime) ecozones. The ecozone attributes most critical to sediment P speciation across Canadian lakes were related to soil types in the watershed (e.g., podzols, chernozems, and Luvisols) and the chemical composition of lake water and sediments, such as dissolved Ca in lake water, bulk sedimentary Ca, Al, and Fe, dissolved SO4 in lake water, lake pH, and salinity. Understanding predictors of the forms of P stored in surficial sediments helps advance our knowledge of in-lake P retention and remobilization processes across the millions of unstudied lakes and can help our understanding of controls on internal P loading.
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- Mauro B de Toledo
- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, 11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 3H5, Canada.
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- School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, 11 Innovation Blvd, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 3H5, Canada.
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Al Sayah MJ, Nedjai R, Abdallah C, Khouri M. On the use of remote sensing to map the proliferation of aquaculture ponds and to investigate their effect on local climate, perspectives from the Claise watershed, France. Environ Monit Assess 2020; 192:301. [PMID: 32322990 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-020-08250-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2019] [Accepted: 03/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ponds, as landscape features, are known to regulate climate. Since ponds proliferate or recede due to natural or anthropogenic factors, a variation of pond numbers implies a variation of their climatic effect. Accordingly, this study investigates the impact of ponds on the local climate of the French Claise watershed. The latter was chosen because it contains a pond dense zone and a pondless zone. This repartition makes the Claise an adequate context to reveal the climatic impact of ponds even in the same landscape. To study the pond-climate effect, the parallel evolution of pond numbers variation and subsequent climatic impact must be tracked. Therefore, the remote sensing-derived Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) was extracted from LANDSAT images with different acquisition dates to track changes in pond numbers with time. When compared with a pond map established from aerial photography interpretation, the LANDSAT NDWI map revealed an accuracy of 85.74% for pond count and 75% for pond spatial allocation. This validation showed that NDWI is suitable for mapping the proliferation of ponds through time. In order to study the parallel evolution of the climatic effect, the land surface temperature (LST) index was extracted for each LANDSAT map. LST maps revealed that as a result of pond number variation, surface temperatures varied accordingly. A comparison of air temperatures between the ponded zone and pondless zones also revealed that pond zones had lower air temperatures than their direct surroundings. Accordingly, ponds were shown to buffer local microclimates even within the same landscape.
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- Mario J Al Sayah
- Remote Sensing Center, Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, Blvrd. Sport City- Birr Hassan, P.O. Box 11-8281, Beirut, Lebanon
- Centre de Recherches en Sciences et Ingénierie, Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering II, Roumieh, Lebanon
- Centre d'Études et de Développement des Territoires et de l'Environnement, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France
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- Centre d'Études et de Développement des Territoires et de l'Environnement, Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France
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- Remote Sensing Center, Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research, Blvrd. Sport City- Birr Hassan, P.O. Box 11-8281, Beirut, Lebanon.
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- Centre de Recherches en Sciences et Ingénierie, Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering II, Roumieh, Lebanon
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Soranno PA, Bissell EG, Cheruvelil KS, Christel ST, Collins SM, Fergus CE, Filstrup CT, Lapierre JF, Lottig NR, Oliver SK, Scott CE, Smith NJ, Stopyak S, Yuan S, Bremigan MT, Downing JA, Gries C, Henry EN, Skaff NK, Stanley EH, Stow CA, Tan PN, Wagner T, Webster KE. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse. Gigascience 2015; 4:28. [PMID: 26140212 PMCID: PMC4488039 DOI: 10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2014] [Accepted: 06/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Although there are considerable site-based data for individual or groups of ecosystems, these datasets are widely scattered, have different data formats and conventions, and often have limited accessibility. At the broader scale, national datasets exist for a large number of geospatial features of land, water, and air that are needed to fully understand variation among these ecosystems. However, such datasets originate from different sources and have different spatial and temporal resolutions. By taking an open-science perspective and by combining site-based ecosystem datasets and national geospatial datasets, science gains the ability to ask important research questions related to grand environmental challenges that operate at broad scales. Documentation of such complicated database integration efforts, through peer-reviewed papers, is recommended to foster reproducibility and future use of the integrated database. Here, we describe the major steps, challenges, and considerations in building an integrated database of lake ecosystems, called LAGOS (LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial and temporal database), that was developed at the sub-continental study extent of 17 US states (1,800,000 km2). LAGOS includes two modules: LAGOSGEO, with geospatial data on every lake with surface area larger than 4 ha in the study extent (~50,000 lakes), including climate, atmospheric deposition, land use/cover, hydrology, geology, and topography measured across a range of spatial and temporal extents; and LAGOSLIMNO, with lake water quality data compiled from ~100 individual datasets for a subset of lakes in the study extent (~10,000 lakes). Procedures for the integration of datasets included: creating a flexible database design; authoring and integrating metadata; documenting data provenance; quantifying spatial measures of geographic data; quality-controlling integrated and derived data; and extensively documenting the database. Our procedures make a large, complex, and integrated database reproducible and extensible, allowing users to ask new research questions with the existing database or through the addition of new data. The largest challenge of this task was the heterogeneity of the data, formats, and metadata. Many steps of data integration need manual input from experts in diverse fields, requiring close collaboration.
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- Patricia A Soranno
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Center for Limnology Trout Lake Station, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Boulder Junction, WI 54512 USA
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- Oregon State University, Tillamook County, Tillamook, OR 97141 USA
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- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 USA
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- NOAA Great Lakes Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824 USA
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- US Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 USA
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