Freshwater management informed through paleolimnology in Halifax regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.

ABSTRACT: Watershed-scale stress from urbanization can negatively impact freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide, but our ability to manage these systems is limited by a lack of baseline knowledge. Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Nova Scotia, Canada, has the 8th fastest growing metropolitan area in Canada; hundreds of lakes are increasingly influenced by development, and most lakes in the urban-suburban core are developed to some degree. Lake monitoring in HRM has shown increased productivity in developed watersheds; however, a lack of historical context impedes lake management. Here, we establish a historical timeline through the analysis of biological indicators (subfossil chironomids) and elemental and isotopic geochemical records in a paleolimnological approach applied to three

SUBMITTER: Hipwell K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12698787 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature