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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
Volume 57, Issue -, Pages 92-96Publisher
NATL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA
DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-57-S2-92
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Water quality was monitored in three 30-ha stratified headwater Precambrian Shield lakes for 5 years before and 3 years after moderate to extensive catchment deforestation. These lakes, which had water renewal times of about a decade, showed only minor changes in water quality by the third year after logging, Water quality response in a lake with moderate deforestation and intact shoreline forest was similar to that in two lakes with extensive upland and shoreline deforestation. By the second and third years after logging, May-September average volume-weighted concentrations of dissolved organic carbon, chlorophyll, total nitrogen, K+, Cl-, and Si had all increased, generally by about 10-40% over predisturbance levels, while Ca2+ and Mg2+ had declined by 10-25%. Dry weather the first year after logging was associated with temporary declines of 10-20% in dissolved organic carbon and chlorophyll.
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