2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/23/2019 | 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LAKES ACROSS CALIFORNIA’S SIERRA NEVADA | 251 DE
ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LAKES ACROSS CALIFORNIA’S SIERRA NEVADA
Small lakes play a disproportionate role in energy flow and the processing of materials at all scales. California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range provides opportunities for testing the applicability of existing limnological conceptual frameworks developed in certain lake-rich regions to other parts of the world. Using remotely-sensed regional mountain lake data from USGS and other global-scale datasets, we pursued a census of all lakes in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. Our goal was to develop a comparison of frequency-size (and other) distributions for Sierra lakes to other lake-rich regions of the world. Preliminary analyses show that of 11,667 lakes >2300 m elevation, 57% of lakes are small (<0.002 km^2); expressing a right-skewed distribution. While these results mirror other regions, we hypothesize that distributions differ from other lake-rich regions in unique ways that make it an excellent model system for testing landscape limnological theory. Ultimately, our case study provides applicable information that can be used in translational ecology towards improved and actionable conservation.
- Distribution
- Landscape
- Lentic
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Christine Parisek
(), University of California, Davis, cparisek@csustan.edu;
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Steve Sadro
(), University of California, Davis, ssadro@ucdavis.edu;
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Andrew Rypel
(), University of California-Davis, andrewrypel@gmail.com;
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