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Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

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  • Benjamin M. Kraemer

    (Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries)

  • Rachel M. Pilla

    (Miami University)

  • R. Iestyn Woolway

    (Dundalk Institute of Technology
    European Space Agency Climate Office, ECSAT, Harwell Campus)

  • Orlane Anneville

    (University Savoie Mont Blanc, CARRTEL)

  • Syuhei Ban

    (University of Shiga Prefecture)

  • William Colom-Montero

    (Uppsala University)

  • Shawn P. Devlin

    (University of Montana)

  • Martin T. Dokulil

    (University of Innsbruck)

  • Evelyn E. Gaiser

    (Florida International University)

  • K. David Hambright

    (University of Oklahoma)

  • Dag O. Hessen

    (University of Oslo)

  • Scott N. Higgins

    (IISD Experimental Lakes Area Inc)

  • Klaus D. Jöhnk

    (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization)

  • Wendel Keller

    (Laurentian University)

  • Lesley B. Knoll

    (University of Minnesota)

  • Peter R. Leavitt

    (University of Regina
    Queen’s University Belfast)

  • Fabio Lepori

    (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)

  • Martin S. Luger

    (Federal Agency for Water Management)

  • Stephen C. Maberly

    (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology)

  • Dörthe C. Müller-Navarra

    (University of Hamburg)

  • Andrew M. Paterson

    (Ontario Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks
    Queen’s University)

  • Donald C. Pierson

    (Uppsala University)

  • David C. Richardson

    (State University of New York at New Paltz)

  • Michela Rogora

    (CNR Water Research Institute (IRSA))

  • James A. Rusak

    (Ontario Ministry of the Environment Conservation and Parks
    Queen’s University)

  • Steven Sadro

    (University of California-Davis)

  • Nico Salmaso

    (Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach)

  • Martin Schmid

    (Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology)

  • Eugene A. Silow

    (Irkutsk State University)

  • Ruben Sommaruga

    (University of Innsbruck)

  • Julio A. A. Stelzer

    (Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
    University of Geneva
    Freie Universität Berlin)

  • Dietmar Straile

    (University of Konstanz)

  • Wim Thiery

    (ETH Zürich
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

  • Maxim A. Timofeyev

    (Irkutsk State University)

  • Piet Verburg

    (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)

  • Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

    (Uppsala University)

  • Rita Adrian

    (Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
    Freie Universität Berlin)

Abstract

Lake surfaces are warming worldwide, raising concerns about lake organism responses to thermal habitat changes. Species may cope with temperature increases by shifting their seasonality or their depth to track suitable thermal habitats, but these responses may be constrained by ecological interactions, life histories or limiting resources. Here we use 32 million temperature measurements from 139 lakes to quantify thermal habitat change (percentage of non-overlap) and assess how this change is exacerbated by potential habitat constraints. Long-term temperature change resulted in an average 6.2% non-overlap between thermal habitats in baseline (1978–1995) and recent (1996–2013) time periods, with non-overlap increasing to 19.4% on average when habitats were restricted by season and depth. Tropical lakes exhibited substantially higher thermal non-overlap compared with lakes at other latitudes. Lakes with high thermal habitat change coincided with those having numerous endemic species, suggesting that conservation actions should consider thermal habitat change to preserve lake biodiversity.

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  • Benjamin M. Kraemer & Rachel M. Pilla & R. Iestyn Woolway & Orlane Anneville & Syuhei Ban & William Colom-Montero & Shawn P. Devlin & Martin T. Dokulil & Evelyn E. Gaiser & K. David Hambright & Dag O., 2021. "Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 11(6), pages 521-529, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:11:y:2021:i:6:d:10.1038_s41558-021-01060-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01060-3
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