Shifting Patterns of Summer Lake Color Phenology in Over 26,000 US Lakes.

ABSTRACT: Lakes are often defined by seasonal cycles. The seasonal timing, or phenology, of many lake processes are changing in response to human activities. However, long-term records exist for few lakes, and extrapolating patterns observed in these lakes to entire landscapes is exceedingly difficult using the limited number of available in situ observations. Limited landscape-level observations mean we do not know how common shifts in lake phenology are at macroscales. Here, we use a new remote sensing data set, LimnoSat-US, to analyze U.S. summer lake color phenology between 1984 and 2020 across more than 26,000 lakes. Our results show that summer lake color seasonality can be generalized into five distinct phenology groups that follow well-known patterns of phytoplankton succession. The frequenc

SUBMITTER: Topp SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244058 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature