Mirror Lake

by Likens, Gene E.

• ISBN13: 9780520261198
• ISBN10: 0520261194
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-25
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Lakes change constantly in response to their surrounding landscape, and their airshed. Mirror Lake, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, has been carefully researched since the 1960s. This book, edited by Thomas C. Winter and Gene E. Likens, summarizes and interprets the extensive data collected on this lake and its watershed from 1981 to 2000, a period during which the lake was affected by a variety of climate conditions as well as significant human activity. The findings documented also identify the panoply of chemicals influenced by limnological processes and include percentages of inflow sources, percentages of water loss from seepage, surface outflow, and evaporation, and the effect of water flow on the lake nutrients.

Author Biography

Thomas C. Winter is a senior research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Gene E. Likens is the former director and president of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xi
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Limnological Introduction to Mirror Lake	p. 1
Limnological History of the Lake	p. 4
The Lake Today	p. 5
This Book	p. 13
Tables	p. 15
References	p. 19
Hydrologic Processes and the Water Budget	p. 23
Hydrogeologic Setting	p. 24
Hydrologic Processes	p. 27
Methods of Determining Water Budget Components	p. 31
Results	p. 44
Tables	p. 65
References	p. 67
Nutrient Dynamics	p. 69
Research Methods	p. 71
Research Results	p. 83
Considerations	p. 128
Conclusions	p. 152
Tables	p. 155
References	p. 20111
Water Storage in the Lake	p. 205
Precipitation	p. 206
Evaporation	p. 207
Surface Water	p. 208
Groundwater	p. 211
Tables	p. 221
References	p. 223
Evaluation of Methods and Uncertainties in the Chemical Budget	p. 225
Uncertainty in the Water Budgets Used to Determine Chemical Budgets	p. 226
Uncertainties in Chemical Analyses	p. 229
Uncertainties in Sample Collection	p. 230
Alternate Approaches to Determining Chemical Budgets	p. 236
The Relation of Uncertainties to Hypotheses	p. 246
The Relation of Water and Solute Budgets to Lake Concentrations	p. 257
Uncertainty in Perspective	p. 262
Tables	p. 265
References	p. 297
Mirror Lake: Past, Present, and Future	p. 301
Historical Change	p. 302
Hydrological and Biogeochemical Fluxes	p. 305
Management Considerations	p. 308
Cultural Eutrophication	p. 312
The Future	p. 316
References	p. 323
Summary and Conclusions	p. 329
Index	p. 335
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