Limnological data derived from high frequency monitoring buoys are asynchronous in a large lake.

ABSTRACT: Autonomous data collection is rapidly becoming an integral part of water quality monitoring, particularly for agencies looking to manage and protect aquatic ecosystems. While beneficial, it is unclear how the collection of these data can be applied in spatially complex large lakes (e.g., Laurentian Great Lakes) given the spatial heterogeneity of the ecosystem. To address this potential shortcoming in large lakes, we assessed the synchrony of sensor variables between 10 pairs of static buoys in the western basin of Lake Erie (western basin surface area =  3,282 km2). Within western Lake Erie, water temperature was highly synchronous whereas dissolved oxygen, turbidity, chlorophyll and phycocyanin were asynchronous. The extent of this asynchrony was higher with increasing spatial distance be

SUBMITTER: Stevens C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11884689 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature