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The Role of Major Research Centers in the Study of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
The Role of Major Research Centers in the Study of Inland Aquatic Ecosystems
Pages 279-288
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Such centers function by providing access to important natural ecosystems and by fostering interdisciplinary investigations of a wide range of environmental phenomena. This paper provides seven representative examples of aquatic research centers and summarizes their contributions.
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Examples, discussed below, are Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, Experimental Lakes Area, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Lake Washington, Coweeta Experimental Forest, and H
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More recently, long-term data collected on unmanipulated lakes at ELA have provided evidence for climatic warming trends in boreal lakes (Schindler et al., 1990) , illustrating some of the potential effects of the climatic changes predicted by several global circulation models and the general importance of extended monitoring of inland aquatic systems.
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Other efforts in Wisconsin include a substantial expansion of projects at the Trout Lake Station in the Northern Highland. The station has served as the staging facility for one of the sites in the Long-Term Ecological Research program (Magnuson et al., 1984)
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Analyses by Edmondson's group documented the positive effects of the sewage diversion program, provided basic understanding of the nature of the eutrophication process, and demonstrated a classic example of the potential of sound management practices for inland aquatic ecosystems. Their monitoring of Lake Washington continued following the initial responses to sewage diversion, revealing another substantial and surprising change in water transparency.
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Coweeta Experimental Forest Like the program at HBEF, research at Coweeta Experimental Forest illustrates how a research center can generate important general information about both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem processes (Swank and Crossley, 1988~. In addition to providing fundamental information on the control of forest type over the amount of water exiting a watershed, work at Coweeta has documented how forest conditions influence the amount of organic materials transported by streams (Wallace et al., 1982; Tate and Meyer, 1983~.
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For example, the historic sites are quite limited geographically and do not effectively represent water bodies in the southern part of the continent, nor do they provide sufficient baseline data on reservoirs. Research centers should be encouraged to develop interactions among major research sites and opportunities for graduate student training, including programs for short- and long-term visiting scientists and semester-long programs for graduate students that involve visits to a series of research centers.
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1973. Energy flow in Bear Brook, New Hampshire: An integrative approach to stream ecosystem metabolism.
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1983. The effects of watershed disturbance on dissolved organic carbon dynamics of a stream.
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1983. The influence of hydrologic conditions and successional states on dissolved organic carbon export from forested watersheds.
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