Treatment manipulations of experiments that have used the SITES AquaNet infrastructure include browning, eutrophication, salinization, predation pressure and snow cover.
A detailed description of the AquaNet infrastructure can be found in Urrutia-Cordero, P., et al. (2021).
Protocols from experiments that have used the SITES AquaNet mesocosms:
Data collections from experiments that have used the SITES AquaNet mesocosms:
List of publications that have used SITES AquaNet mesocosms:
Urrutia-Cordero, P., Langenheder, S., Striebel, M., et al. (2022) Integrating multiple dimensions of ecological stability into a vulnerability framework. J Ecol. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13804
Urrutia Cordero, P., Langenheder, S., Striebel, M., et al. (2021). Functionally reversible impacts of disturbances on lake food webs linked to spatial and seasonal dependencies. Ecology. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3283.
Hintz, W. D., Arnott, S. E., Symons, C. C., et al. (2022). Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization. P Natl Acad Sci. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211503311
Hebert, M. P., Symons, C. C., Canedo-Arguelles, M., et al. (2022). Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments. Limnol Oceanogr Lett. doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10239
Arnott, S. E., Fugere, V., Symons, C. C., et al. (2022). Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community-level salt tolerance. Limnol Oceanogr Lett. doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10277