Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika, Africa

By C. O’Reilly, S. Alin, P. Plisnier, A. Cohen, B. McKee. Nature, 2003

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Lake of flies, or lake of fish? A trophic model of Lake Malawi (2010, background): “Anydisruption to this pathwayof energy transferwithin thepelagic part of the ecosystem, such as through climate change impacts causing reduction of upwelling, as has been observed in neighbouring Lake Tanganyika (O’Reilly et al., 2003), could have a potentially significant impact on demersal fishery”
Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries (2009, background): “…(i) changes in aquatic habitat quantity and quality, ecosystem productivity and the distribution and abundance of aquatic competitors and predators (O’Reilly et al. 2003; Edwards and Richardson 2004; Hall-Spencer et al. 2008); (ii) impacts on other food production sectors that affect people’s…”
The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people (2016, background): “In deep tropical freshwater lakes dominated by internal nutrient loading through regular mixing, warmer surface waters confer greater thermal stability, with reduced mixing and return of nutrients to the photic zone, substantially decreasing primary productivity (122), phytoplankton growth (123), an”
Impacts of climate variability and change on fishery-based livelihoods (2010, background): “Evidence of the impact of recent global climatic changes on fisheries resources has already been observed, with reduced productivity in African lakes attributed to elevated late 20th century atmospheric temperatures [2,3], and increases in the frequency and severity of coral bleaching with rising se”
Lakes as sentinels of climate change (2009, background): “Studies of lakes provided some of the early indications of the effects of current climate change on ecosystem structure and function (Schindler et al. 1996a; Magnuson et al. 2000; Verburg et al. 2003) and the consequences for ecosystem services (O’Reilly et al. 2003).”
Sixty years of environmental change in the world's largest freshwater lake – Lake Baikal, Siberia (2008, background): “We have extracted the major trends in temperature, phytoplankton, and zooplankton to determine whether Lake Baikal has exhibited responses that are consistent with recent evidence of warming in aquatic systems worldwide (Magnuson et al., 2000; Quayle et al., 2002; O’Reilly et al., 2003; Verburg et a”
Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification Across Northeastern North America (1975-2014) (2017, background): “In many lakes, changes in the amount of vertical mixing can also contribute to changes in nutrient dynamics and ultimately lake productivity [84,85] and changing fisheries [86].”
A stable isotopic investigation into the causes of decline in a sub‐Antarctic predator, the rockhopper penguin Eudyptes chrysocome (2006, background): “There is some evidence that system shifts in southern hemisphere marine environments have been driven by recent climate warming (e.g. Weimerskirch et al., 2003), and that warming of water bodies can lead to reductions in phytoplankton productivity (e.g. O’Reilly et al., 2003).”
Visible spectroscopy reliably tracks trends in paleo-production (2016, background): “For example, O’Reilly et al. (2003) demonstrated how increasing temperatures, and declining wind speeds in the Lake Tanganyika watershed (Sub-Saharan East Africa) increased the stability of the water column.”
State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. (2011, background): “The Great African Rift lakes (Victoria, Tanganyika, Malawi) are heavily impacted by rapid human population growth, deforestation, soil erosion, and overfishing.”
Impacts of climate change on fisheries (2010, background): “A further example of changed productivity probably due to alteration of nutrient supply comes from Lake Tanganyika (O'Reilly et al., 2004).”