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A comprehensive framework for integrating lake hypsography and function on a global scale.

Cristian Gudasz¹, Dominic Vachon^1,2,3, Yves T Prairie²

¹Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology, Environment and Geoscience, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

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Summary

This study introduces a new framework to analyze global lakes, revealing that lake shape and volume distribution vary significantly by climate and glacial history. This helps quantify lakes' collective role in Earth's systems.

Keywords:

Limnology Macroecology

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Area of Science:

Earth System Science
Limnology
Global Ecology

Background:

Understanding global lake responses to climate change and pollution is crucial.
Current frameworks lack conceptual unity and empirical constraints for collective lake behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a unified framework for aggregating individual lake attributes into composite lakes.
To analyze lake shape, volume, and biogeochemical sensitivities at global and regional scales.

Main Methods:

Aggregating individual lake hypsography and functional attributes into composite lakes.
Analyzing composite lakes globally, across climate zones, and within 1-degree Earth system grid cells.
Clustering composite lakes into distinct groups based on attributes.

Main Results:

Globally, lake shape mirrors land, dominated by shallow areas, with differences between glaciated/non-glaciated and climate zones.
Composite lakes cluster into five distinct groups at the 1-degree grid cell scale.
An estimated 43% of global lake volume and sediment surface area are in the mixed layer, showing strong climate and glacial history contrasts.

Conclusions:

The proposed framework advances the quantification and understanding of the collective role of lakes in Earth's systems.
Lake structure and mixed layer dynamics reveal significant biogeochemical sensitivities across diverse environments.
This approach provides a unified perspective on lake behavior at multiple spatial scales.