Lake levels and drought indices in northern Wisconsin: data, graphs, and photographs.

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These materials include 25-year records of lake levels in 7 lakes in Northern Wisconsin, Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and precipitation; graphs illustrating changes in lake levels over time; photographs of drought conditions in these lakes; supporting text and a list of related scientific articles.

Materials could be used to illustrate two different ecological concepts/processes.
1) These data and graphics provide an example of the effects of a changing climate on aquatic ecosystems. The declines in lake levels observed in some lakes during drought has been dramatic, and have a range of ecological effects, some examples of which are described above.

2) The data set provides an example of a central tenet of landscape ecology: that the spatial position of an ecosystem within the surrounding landscape affects the properties of the ecosystem- in this case, a lake’s response to changing climate.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Dataset
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Format	zip
Ecological Core Concept	The science of ecology
Classification	Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	On
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	n/a
Keywords	lake, data, PDSI, drought
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	Emily Stanley
Primary Author Affiliation	University of Wisconsin
Primary Author email	ehstanley@wisc.edu
Rights	Author retains copyright.
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2009-11-09

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