Increased irradiance in spring can promote growth of motile phytoplankton or, if radiatively driven convection occurs, more nutritious diatoms

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Evidence profile

Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2021 and 2025, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 161 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Winter Limnology: How do Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry Shape Ecosystems Under Ice? (2021) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · cited 100× · doi

  Similarly, increased irradiance in spring can promote growth of motile phytoplankton or, if radiatively driven convection occurs, more nutritious diatoms, but links between functional trait selection, trophic transfer to zooplankton and fish, and the prevalence of microbial versus classical food webs in seasonally ice‐covered lakes remain unclear.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: similarly increased irradiance spring promote growth motile phytoplankton radiatively driven convection occurs nutritious diatoms links
• The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: Influence of Winter Conditions on Energy and Ecosystem Dynamics (2021) · Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · cited 59× · doi

  While this fundamental restructuring leads to distinct gradients in ions, dissolved gases, and nutrients throughout the water column, surprisingly little is known about the resulting effects on ecosystem processes and food webs, highlighting the lack of a general limnological framework that characterizes the structure and function of lakes under a gradient of ice cover.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: fundamental restructuring leads distinct gradients ions dissolved gases nutrients throughout water column surprisingly little known
• Substantial role of under‐ice limnological processes in diatom dynamics in the alpine lakes of the Chinese Loess Plateau (2025) · Ecosphere · cited 2× · doi

  Abstract Recent climate warming has resulted in the reduction of lake ice cover and significant changes in phytoplankton communities, but due to the traditional view of low production under lake ice in winter as well as the logistical challenges of winter conditions to field sampling, the influence of under‐ice limnological processes on winter diatom dynamics is rarely directly examined and thus remains unclear.

  generalabstractevidence 3/5
  Keywords: winter lake abstract recent climate warming resulted reduction cover significant changes phytoplankton communities traditional view

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