Drivers of change for lakewater clarity

Lawrence A. Baker; Johanna E. Schussler; Stephanie A. Snyder

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Drivers of change for lakewater clarity

Lawrence A. Baker, Johanna E. Schussler, Stephanie A. Snyder

Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

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Lakes in the Upper Midwest have undergone extensive lakeshore development over the past 30 years, raising concerns about eutrophication. We examined 11 case study lakes in Minnesota that had undergone substantial shoreline development over the past 30 years to evaluate drivers of change in clarity. Relationships between current Secchi disk transparency (SDT) and the density of permanent equivalent houses (PEHs) and between change in SDT and change in density of PEHs were not statistically significant. For lakes with large watershed area-to-lake area (WSA: LA) ratios, modeled worst-case scenarios for impacts of shoreline housing show that phosphorus (P) inputs may not be sufficient to reduce SDT. For sensitive lakes, improved P management policies may counteract increased shoreline development, at least in part. For lakes with large WSA:LA ratios, activity outside the shoreline area, particularly agricultural activity, is probably more important than shoreline development in affecting SDT. Although policies considered lake management operate at fairly small scales, drivers of change in SDT operate at various temporal and spatial scales, from household to global.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	30-40
Number of pages	11
Journal	Lake and Reservoir Management
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07438140809354048
State	Published - Mar 1 2008

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This project was supported by the U.S. Forest Service, North Central Research Station. We thank Rob Potts and Sue Leitz (both with the USFS) for managerial and GIS support, respectively. We also thank the many state agency staff and people in the case study counties who provided insights regarding these lakes and their watersheds (see Schussler 2005). In addition, we thank Katherine Webster of the University of Maine and Devendra Amatya of the USFS for providing helpful comments on an earlier version of this manuscript.

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Secchi disk
drivers
eutrophication
phosphorus
shoreline development

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