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A Short History of Freshwater Science
(aka, Limnology)
Early Limnology: Lake Morphology
Early Limnology: Temperature Profiles
Early Limnology: Crazy Microorganisms
Early Limnology: Nuisance Algal Blooms
Advances in the last 200 years
Freshwater Systems as
MICROCOSMS
Freshwater Systems as
INTEGRATORSOR
Stephen Forbes (1844-1930)Forbes SA. 1887. The lake as a microcosm. Bull of the Peoria Scientific Association, Reprinted Bulletin of the Illinois State Natural History Survey 15: 537-550.
Raymond L. Lindeman (1915-1942)
Cedar Bog Lake, MN
Lindemann RL. 1942. The trophic-dynamic aspects of ecology. Ecology 23: 399-418.
Margaret B. Davis
Rogers Lake, CT
Davis MB. 1969. Climate changes in southern Connecticut recorded by pollen deposition at Rogers Lake. Ecology 50: 409-663.
Davis MB. 1969. Climate changes in southern Connecticut recorded by pollen deposition at Rogers Lake. Ecology 50: 409-663.
Depth (m)
Age (yrs 1000)
Streams and Rivers as
Nature’s Plumbing
Gene E. Likens and Herb Bormann
The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH
1 km
The Small Watershed Concept
Sample input… …and output
Whole-Watershed Manipulations
Effect of Forest Removal on Stream Temperature
Effect of Forest
Removal on Nutrient Export
Advances in the last 150 years
Freshwater Systems as
MICROCOSMS
Freshwater Systems as
INTEGRATORSAND
