Assessing the utility of geospatial technologies to investigate environmental change within lake systems

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dc.contributor.authorPoliti, Eirini
dc.contributor.authorRowan, J. S.
dc.contributor.authorCutler, M. E. J.
dc.contributor.funderNatural Environment Research Council, United Kingdomen
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-19T11:31:30Z
dc.date.available2016-08-19T11:31:30Z
dc.date.issued2015-10-29
dc.date.updated2016-08-19T08:47:54Z
dc.description.abstractOver 50% of the world's population live within 3. km of rivers and lakes highlighting the on-going importance of freshwater resources to human health and societal well-being. Whilst covering c. 3.5% of the Earth's non-glaciated land mass, trends in the environmental quality of the world's standing waters (natural lakes and reservoirs) are poorly understood, at least in comparison with rivers, and so evaluation of their current condition and sensitivity to change are global priorities. Here it is argued that a geospatial approach harnessing existing global datasets, along with new generation remote sensing products, offers the basis to characterise trajectories of change in lake properties e.g., water quality, physical structure, hydrological regime and ecological behaviour. This approach furthermore provides the evidence base to understand the relative importance of climatic forcing and/or changing catchment processes, e.g. land cover and soil moisture data, which coupled with climate data provide the basis to model regional water balance and runoff estimates over time. Using examples derived primarily from the Danube Basin but also other parts of the World, we demonstrate the power of the approach and its utility to assess the sensitivity of lake systems to environmental change, and hence better manage these key resources in the future.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Environment Research Council, UK (NERC Consortium Grant NE/J024279/1 — GloboLakes (Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change))en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPoliti, E., Rowan, J.S. and Cutler, M.E.J. (2016) 'Assessing the utility of geospatial technologies to investigate environmental change within lake systems', Science of The Total Environment, 543, pp. 791-806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.136en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.136
dc.identifier.endpage806en
dc.identifier.issn0048-9697
dc.identifier.journaltitleScience of The Total Environmenten
dc.identifier.startpage791en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3013
dc.identifier.volume543en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.rights© 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectLake changeen
dc.subjectEcosystem servicesen
dc.subjectRemote sensingen
dc.subjectGeospatial technologyen
dc.subjectCatchment pressuresen
dc.titleAssessing the utility of geospatial technologies to investigate environmental change within lake systemsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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