Effects of climate change on New Zealand Lakes

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This chapter contains sections titled: -Introduction -Geographical and climate perspective -Historical climate -Future climate -Overview of lake types and formation processes -Climate change and impacts on endemic and exotic flora and fauna -Climate change impacts on fish -Climate change impacts on aquatic plants and macroinvertebrates -Effects of climate change on shallow NZ lakes -Effects of climate change on high-altitude NZ lakes -Case study: Lake Taupo -Case study: Lake Pupuke -Case study: surface temperature in monomictic and polymictic Rotorua lakes -Case study: bottom-water dissolved oxygen in Lake Rotoiti -Case study: modeling effects of land use and climate change for Lake Rotorua -Management challenges and mitigation measures -Conclusions -References

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Goldman, C. R., Kumagai, M., Robarts, R. D., Hamilton, D. P., McBride, C., ..., Ye, W. (2013). Effects of climate change on New Zealand Lakes. In C. R. Goldman, M. Kumagai & R. D. Robarts(Eds.), Climatic Change and Global Warming of Inland Waters: Impacts and Mitigation for Ecosystems and Societies, First Edition (pp. 337-366). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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