SystemLink: Moving beyond Aquatic–Terrestrial Interactions to Incorporate Food Web Studies

Abstract

science projects, but also data providers, relatively early on. However, at the core and perhaps the most important factor contributing to the successful continuity of this project, is the dedication and engagement of the CLIC community scientists. We are incredibly fortunate that our community scientists are passionate and supportive of this work.To date, this project has collected over 52,500 lake ice phenology observations for 1008 lakes, and involved 935 monitors over the years (Fig. 3). As we work toward organizing these vast datasets, we look forward to exploring important questions on how climate change is affecting lake ice phenology across small and large lakes in the United States and identifying which lakes are most vulnerable to rapid ice loss. AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONSS conceived the idea and led the project. SS and LSL wrote the first draft. KB created figure 3. LSL, AB, KB, KS, DB, GB, and SS helped conceptualize the survey questions for the community scientists, contextualize the historical aspects of the project, and edited the manuscript. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSFirst and foremost, the authors are indebted to the participants and citizen scientists from the Community Lake Ice Collaboration for their dedication and enthusiastic efforts to collect lake ice phenology data from their local lakes over the past 30 years.

Organic Matter Accumulation and Hydrology as Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in Newly Developed Artificial Channels

“…The experiment was conducted at the Riparian Stream Mesocosms (RSM) facility located in Landau (Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, 49°12.067′ N/8°8.338′ E), operated by the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) within the SystemLink project. 27 The RSM consists of 16 flumes, 15 m long, 0.2 m deep, and 1 m wide, each with a 15 m × 4 m associated riparian area (Figure 1). The flumes are flowthrough systems connected at the inlet side to a waterpumping station in the nearby fourth-order River Queich and at the outlet back to the River Queich, ∼40 m downstream of the pumping station.…”

“…The experiment was conducted at the Riparian Stream Mesocosms (RSM) facility located in Landau (Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, 49° 12.067′ N/8° 8.338′ E), operated by the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) within the SystemLink project . The RSM consists of 16 flumes, 15 m long, 0.2 m deep, and 1 m wide, each with a 15 m × 4 m associated riparian area (Figure ).…”