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- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "The Sierra Nevada, California's iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes, which are critical water sources for agriculture and urban development throughout California. As climate and air quality in the region change, so do the watershed processes upon which these lakes depend. In order to understand the future of California's ecology and natural resources, we need a clear account of the environmental processes that underlie these aquatic systems. Synthesizing over three decades of research on the lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada, this book develops an integrated account of the hydrological and biogeochemical systems that sustain them. With a focus on Emerald Lake in Sequoia National Park, the book marshals long-term limnological and ecological data to provide a detailed and synthetic account of these processes, while also highlighting the vulnerability of Sierra lakes to changes in climate and atmospheric deposition. In so doing, it lays the scientific foundations for predicting and understanding how the lake will respond"--
- Uniform Title
- Lakes and watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Lakes and watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction to the Sierra Nevada -- Introduction to high-elevation lakes and watersheds of the Sierra Nevada -- Snow hydrology -- Watershed hydrology -- Watershed biogeochemistry -- Limnology -- Variability, trends and future scenarios.
- LCCN
- 2020004859
- OCLC
- ssj0002404269
- Author
Melack, J. M.
- Title
Lakes and watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California [electronic resource] : responses to environmental change / John M. Melack, Steven Sadro, James O. Sickman, Jeff Dozier.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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- Added Author
Sadro, Steven.
Sickman, James O., 1960-
Dozier, Jeff.
- Other Form:
Print version: Melack, J. M.. Lakes and watersheds in the Sierra Nevada of California Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] 9780520278790 (DLC) 2020004858