Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California: Responses to Environmental Change

John M. Melack,Steven Sadro,James O. Sickman,Jeff Dozier

Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California: Responses to Environmental Change
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of California Press
Country
United States
Published
1 December 2020
Pages
220
ISBN
9780520278790

Lakes and Watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California: Responses to Environmental Change

John M. Melack,Steven Sadro,James O. Sickman,Jeff Dozier

The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes, which are critical water sources for agriculture and urban development throughout California. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California’s ecology and natural resources, we need a clear account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems.

Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account of these processes, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lake will respond.

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