Canadian boreal woodlands and forests cover approximately 3.09× 106 km2, located within
a larger boreal zone characterized by cool summers and long cold winters. Warming since …

When it comes to the investigation of key ecosystems in the world, we often omit salt from the
ecological recipe. In fact, despite occupying almost half of the volume of inland waters and …

Oxygen depletion constitutes a major threat to lake ecosystems and the services they
provide. Most of the world's lakes are located> 45° N, where accelerated climate warming …

Throughout geological time, evaporite sediments form by solar-driven concentration of a
surface or nearsurface brine. Large, thick and extensive deposits dominated by rock-salt …

Lacustrine carbonates accumulate in all climates and in any tectonic situation. Their
depositional patterns are assessed through a database involving literature representing …

Inland waters are one of the largest natural sources of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse
gas, but emissions models and estimates were developed for solute-poor ecosystems and …

Saline alkaline lakes are the focus of this book, but how do they form and how do they differ
from freshwater lakes? We provide a brief introduction to soda lakes, their origin and their …

Past studies have revealed the important roles of certain types of microbes in precipitating
dolomite in coastal hypersaline lakes and lagoons, and marine sediments, however, it is still …

The hypothesis that sulfate inhibits dolomite formation evolved from geochemical studies of
porewaters from deep-sea sedimentary sequences and has been tested with hydrothermal …

Nitrogen pollution and global eutrophication are predicted to increase nitrous oxide (N2O)
emissions from freshwater ecosystems. Surface waters within agricultural landscapes …