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Browning of freshwaters: Consequences to ecosystem services, underlying drivers, and potential mitigation measures.
Review in Ambio, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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32 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Effects of temperature and browning on the functional response of a freshwater top predator.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Gallium Oxide-Based Photodetectors for Water Quality Monitoring.ACS applied optical materials · 2026Article
- Photochemical Production of Singlet Oxygen in Adirondack Long-Term Monitoring Lakes of Varying Browning Status.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Wetlands as a solution to water browning: A 3-year efficiency assessment of outdoor mesocosms.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2025Article
- Modelling the Effects of Forest use Change on Brownification of Finnish Rivers under Atmospheric Pressure.Environmental management · 2025Article
- Organic carbon dry deposition outpaces atmospheric processing with unaccounted implications for air quality and freshwater ecosystems.Science advances · 2025Article
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- Climate-Driven Increases in Source Water Natural Organic Matter: Implications for the Sustainability of Drinking Water Treatment.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- Satellite data is revealing long time changes in the world largest lakes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Response of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria to limitation and availability of organic carbon.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Water Colour Shapes Diving Beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) Assemblages in Urban Ponds.Insects · 2024Article
- The changing nitrogen landscape of United States streams: Declining deposition and increasing organic nitrogen.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
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- Possible Effects of Changes in Carbonate Concentration and River Flow Rate on Photochemical Reactions in Temperate Aquatic Environments.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Bacterial Communities Along Environmental Gradients in Tropical Soda Lakes.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Effects of temporal abiotic drivers on the dynamics of an allometric trophic network model.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Macrosystem community change in lake phytoplankton and its implications for diversity and function.Global ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology · 2023Article
- An examination of the influence of drained peatlands on regional stream water chemistry.Hydrobiologia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Browning of surface waters, as a result of increasing dissolved organic carbon and iron concentrations, is a widespread phenomenon with implications to the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems. In this article, we provide an overview of the consequences of browning in relation to ecosystem services, outline what the underlying drivers and mechanisms of browning are, and specifically focus on exploring potential mitigation measures to locally counteract browning. These topical concepts are discussed with a focus on Scandinavia, but are of relevance also to other regions. Browning is of environmental concern as it leads to, e.g., increasing costs and risks for drinking water production, and reduced fish production in lakes by limiting light penetration. While climate change, recovery from acidification, and land-use change are all likely factors contributing to the observed browning, managing the land use in the hydrologically connected parts of the landscape may be the most feasible way to counteract browning of natural waters.
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