Authors:
Carpenter, S.R. and K.L. Cottingham
Publication Date:
1997
Abstract/Summary:
Lake water quality and ecosystem services are normally maintained by several feedbacks. Among these are nutrient retention and humic production by wetlands, nutrient retention and woody habitat production by riparian forests, food web structures that channel phosphorus to consumers rather than phytoplankton, and biogeochemical mechanisms that inhibit phosphorus recycling from sediments. In degraded lakes, these resilience mechanisms are replaced by new ones that connect lakes to larger, regional economic and social systems.
Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article
Source:
Ecology and Society