The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133668

Language of the publication
English
Date
2019-08-04
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Article
Author(s)
  • Huot, Yannick
  • Brown, Catherine A.
  • Potvin, Geneviève
  • Antoniades, Dermot
  • Baulch, Helen M.
  • Beisner, Beatrix E.
  • Bélanger, Simon
  • Brazeau, Stéphanie
  • Cabana, Hubert
  • Cardille, Jeffrey A.
  • Del Giorgio, Paul A.
  • Gregory-Eaves, Irene
  • Fortin, Marie-Josée
  • Lang, Andrew S.
  • Laurion, Isabelle
  • Maranger, Roxane
  • Prairie, Yves T.
  • Rusak, James A.
  • Segura, Pedro A.
  • Siron, Robert
  • Smol, John P.
  • Vinebrooke, Rolf D.
  • Walsh, David A.
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Elsevier

Abstract

The distribution and quality of water resources vary dramatically across Canada, and human impacts such as land-use and climate changes are exacerbating uncertainties in water supply and security. At the national level, Canada has no enforceable standards for safe drinking water and no comprehensive water-monitoring program to provide detailed, timely reporting on the state of water resources. To provide Canada's first national assessment of lake health, the NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network was launched in 2016 as an academic-government research partnership. LakePulse uses traditional approaches for limnological monitoring as well as state-of-the-art methods in the fields of genomics, emerging contaminants, greenhouse gases, invasive pathogens, paleolimnology, spatial modelling, statistical analysis, and remote sensing. A coordinated sampling program of about 680 lakes together with historical archives and a geomatics analysis of over 80,000 lake watersheds are used to examine the extent to which lakes are being altered now and in the future, and how this impacts aquatic ecosystem services of societal importance. Herein we review the network context, objectives and methods.

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  • Health

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Science of the Total Environment
Journal volume
695

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Huot Y, Brown CA, Potvin G, et al. The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate. Science of The Total Environment. 2019;695:133668. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133668

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