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Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia (2018)
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Roberts, S., Swann, G., McGowan, S., Panizzo, V., Vologina, E., Sturm, M., & Mackay, A. (2018). Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia. PLoS ONE, 13(12), Article e020876. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208765

Lake Baikal has been experiencing limnological changes from recent atmospheric warming since the 1950s, with rising lake water temperatures, reduced ice cover duration and reduced lake surface-water mixing due to stronger thermal stratification. This... Read More about Diatom evidence of 20th century ecosystem change in Lake Baikal, Siberia.

Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles (2018)
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Chen, X., Qiao, Q., Mcgowan, S., Zeng, L., Stevenson, M. A., Xu, L., …Cao, Y. (2019). Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles. CATENA, 174, 546-556. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2018.11.041

Accurate chronologies for recent sediments of shallow lakes in the Yangtze floodplain are critical to calibrate proxy records for reconstructing environmental changes during the past century. This study presents the results of detailed 210Pb analysis... Read More about Determination of geochronology and sedimentation rates of shallow lakes in the middle Yangtze reaches using 210 Pb, 137 Cs and spheroidal carbonaceous particles.

Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk (2018)
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Loakes, K. L., Ryves, D. B., Lamb, H. F., Schäbitz, F., Dee, M., Tyler, J. J., …McGowan, S. (2018). Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.005

Multi-proxy analyses of an 8 m sediment core from Lake Hayk, a closed, freshwater lake in the north-central highlands of Ethiopia, provide a record of changing lake level and inferred regional climatic change for the last 15.6 cal ka years. Between c... Read More about Late Quaternary climate change in the north-eastern highlands of Ethiopia: a high resolution 15,600 year diatom and pigment record from Lake Hayk.

A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments (2018)
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Anderson, N., Leng, M., Osburn, C., Fritz, S., Law, A., & McGowan, S. (2018). A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 98-108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.006

Arctic organic carbon (OC) stores are substantial and have accumulated over millennia as a function of changes in climate and terrestrial vegetation. Arctic lakes are also important components of the regional C-cycle as they are sites of OC productio... Read More about A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments.

Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes (2018)
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Anderson, N., Curtis, C., Whiteford, E., Jones, V., McGowan, S., Simpson, G., & Kaiser, J. (2018). Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2250-2265. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10936

Disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major component of global environmental change. d15N in lake sediments is increasingly used as a measure of reactive nitrogen input but problematically, the characteristic depleted d15N signal is not recorded at... Read More about Regional variability in the atmospheric nitrogen deposition signal and its transfer to the sediment record in Greenland lakes.

Recent ecological change in ancient lakes (2018)
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Hampton, S. E., McGowan, S., Ozersky, T., Virdis, S. G. P., Vu, T. T., Spanbauer, T. L., …Fritz, S. C. (2018). Recent ecological change in ancient lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(5), 2277-2304. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10938

Ancient lakes are among the best archivists of past environmental change, having experienced more than one full glacial cycle, a wide range of climatic conditions, tectonic events, and long association with human settlements. These lakes not only rec... Read More about Recent ecological change in ancient lakes.

Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years (2018)
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Moorhouse, H. L., McGowan, S., Taranu, Z. E., Gregory-Eaves, I., Leavitt, P. R., Jones, M. D., …Brayshaw, S. A. (2018). Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 4009-4022. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14299

© 2018 The Authors. Global Change Biology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Freshwater ecosystems are threatened by multiple anthropogenic stressors acting over different spatial and temporal scales, resulting in toxic algal blooms, reduced water... Read More about Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, United Kingdom: The dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years.

Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes (2018)
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McGowan, S., Anderson, N. J., Edwards, M. E., Hopla, E., Jones, V., Langdon, P. G., …Wiik, E. (in press). Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10086

“Arctic greening” will alter vegetation quantity and quality in northern watersheds, with possible consequences for lake metabolic balance. We used paleolimnology from six Arctic lakes in Greenland, Norway, and Alaska to develop a conceptual model de... Read More about Vegetation transitions drive the autotrophy-heterotrophy balance in Arctic lakes.

Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China (2018)
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Chen, X., McGowan, S., Xiao, X., Stevenson, M. A., Yang, X., Li, Y., & Zhang, E. (2018). Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.027

Sedimentary records of inorganic elements and pigments over the last 12,000 years are used to assess major changes in limnological conditions of Tiancai Lake (a small treeline lake, SW China), in response to Holocene climate variations. Algal communi... Read More about Direct and indirect effects of Holocene climate variations on catchment and lake processes of a treeline lake, SW China.

Demanding the impossible: a strike zine (2018)
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Legg, S., Clare, N., Field, R., Forsyth, I., Freeman, C., French, S., …Soccorsy, E. (2018). Demanding the impossible: a strike zine

A co-authored and co-curated series of reflections on the 2018 UCU strikes in British Universities, protesting against proposed pension reforms.

Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication (2018)
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Panizzo, V., Roberts, S., Swann, G. E., McGowan, S., Mackay, A. W., Vologina, E., …Horstwood, M. S. (2018). Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(4), 1562-1578. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10792

Recent research has highlighted how Lake Baikal, Siberia, has responded to the direct and indirect effects of climate change (e.g., ice-cover duration), nutrient loading, and pollution, manifesting as changes in phytoplankton/zooplankton populations,... Read More about Spatial differences in dissolved silicon utilisation in Lake Baikal, Siberia: examining the impact of high diatom biomass events and eutrophication.

Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records (2018)
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Leng, M., Engels, S., Fong, L., Chen, Q., Leng, M. J., McGowan, S., …Yang, H. (2018). Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records. Environmental Pollution, 235, 907-917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.01.007

Fossil fuel combustion leads to increased levels of air pollution, which negatively affects human health as well as the environment. Documented data for Southeast Asia (SEA) show a strong increase in fossil fuel consumption since 1980, but informatio... Read More about Historical atmospheric pollution trends in Southeast Asia inferred from lake sediment records.

Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo (2018)
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Zieritz, A., Bogan, A. E., Rahim, K. A., Jainih, R. S. L., Harun, S., Abd Razak, N. F., …Lopes-Lima, M. (2018). Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo. Biological Conservation, 219, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.01.012

Human activities are threatening Borneo's unique biodiversity, but little is known on the status of freshwater invertebrates. We assessed changes in diversity and distribution of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionida) in northern Borneo, and identif... Read More about Changes and drivers of freshwater mussel diversity and distribution in northern Borneo.