Developing a lake management strategy by dovetailing lake monitoring with paleolimnological techniques: a case study from a kettle lake on the Oak Ridges Moraine (Ontario, Canada)
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Abstract
Moos MT, Ginn BK. 2016. Developing a lake management strategy by dovetailing lake monitoring with paleolimnological techniques: a case study from a kettle lake on the Oak Ridges Moraine (Ontario, Canada). Lake Reserv Manage. 32: 234–245.In response to concerns about declining water quality, increased aquatic plant biomass, and harmful algal blooms, a lake monitoring program was undertaken on a suburban kettle lake near Toronto, Canada. We identified environmental conditions consistent with eutrophication, and the largest source of phosphorus (P) loading was from sediment release during an extended period of low dissolved oxygen during thermal stratification of the water column. To put these current environmental conditions in perspective, account for long-term limnological trends, and develop a sustainable lake management strategy, we also undertook paleolimnological analysis of a sediment core. Using diatoms as proxy indicators, historic limnological conditions were reconstructed. Although pre-European settlement conditions were typical of lakes with forested catchments in this region, the lake was mesotrophic (total phosphorus [TP] ∼17.5 µg/L), likely from P bound to dissolved organic carbon. P concentrations increased with the use of chemical fertilizers and establishment of seasonal lakeside cottages and resorts starting in the 1920s (the beginning of the diatom-inferred (DI-) TP upward trend). With the conversion of these cottages into year-round homes (since 1960) and further urbanization of the catchment, including servicing with municipal water supply but continued reliance on septic tanks, P has increased further (TP ∼26.1 µg/L). For restoration to a sustainable state, methods of preventing sediment P release (capping the sediment surface or oxygenation of the hypolimnion) should be considered, along with installation of municipal wasterwater servicing and stewardship projects to prevent further P loading from septic systems and surface runoff.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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