Lakeshore Shallows Can Be Biodiversity Hotspots—but Warming Is Changing Their Complex Ecology

Lakeshore shallows can be biodiversity hotspots—but warming is changing their complex ecology

The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as "Earth's eye"—a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions.

Lakeshore shallows can be biodiversity hotspots – but warming is changing their complex ecology

Warrick Powrie, CC BY-SAThe 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as “Earth’s eye” – a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions. Our new research at Lake Taupō, New Zealand’s largest body of freshwater renowned for its clearity, reiterates this notion of lake ecology. We examined the links between nutrient cycles and biodiversity and found that a strong breeze blowing acros…