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Journal Articles Limnology and Oceanography Letters Year : 2024

Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene

Nelson G Hairston
Andrea Lami

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Recent decades have witnessed widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes. The intricate interplay between climate change and nutrient loading and its impact on oxygen dynamics still lacks clear understanding. We develop a paleo-data-model coupling approach to investigate long-term variations of dissolved oxygen conditions in Lake Geneva over the period 1850-2100. Our approach provides first estimates of oxygen baseline conditions and quantifies duration of hypoxia since pre-disturbance. Over the 19 th and 20 th centuries, an increase in DO consumption rates (from 0.3 to 2.5 g O 2 m À2 d À1 ) following nutrient over-enrichment caused the onset of hypoxia, and its intensity and duration were governed by the combined influence of climatic forcing and high phosphorus concentration. In the future, hypoxia will be primarily disrupted by reduced frequency of full mixing events.
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hal-04727996 , version 1 (09-10-2024)

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Laura M V Soares, Olivia Desgué‐itier, Cécilia Barouillet, Céline Casenave, Isabelle Domaizon, et al.. Unraveling Lake Geneva's hypoxia crisis in the Anthropocene. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2024, ⟨10.1002/lol2.10435⟩. ⟨hal-04727996⟩
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