Water Quantity
Southwest Alaska Network. 2018. Water Quantity. Southwest Alaska Network
Lakes integrate water, energy, nutrients, sediments, and pollutants from the surrounding land and air. Therefore, lake water quality can be a useful indicator of broad-scale stressors, such as climate change. High-latitude lakes are projected to become not only warmer as a result of climate change, but also more turbid, more enriched in nutrients and organic matter, and more productive. These changes have the potential to impact the growth, survival, and reproduction of aquatic organisms, such as salmon, and also the terrestrial organisms that rely on them. The Southwest Alaska Network monitors several lake water quality parameters, including temperature, pH, conductivity, and dissolved oxygen. Of these parameters, temperature is particularly important because all the other parameters are directly related to it.
- Type
- Resource Brief
- Authors
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Date of Issue
- 2018-03
- Publisher
- Southwest Alaska Network
- Units
- KATM , LACL , SWAN
- Keywords
- hydrology, stage, surface flow, water volume
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Water | Hydrology | Surface Water Dynamics