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Simon Stewart, Freshwater Scientist, Cawthron Institute

Lakeshore shallows can be biodiversity hotspots – but warming is changing their complex ecology

Warrick Powrie, CC BY-SA

The 19th-century American naturalist Henry David Thoreau described the small freshwater lake at Walden as “Earth’s eye” – a measure of the complexity of ecological interactions.

Our new research at Lake Taupō, New Zealand’s largest body of freshwater renowned for its clearity, reiterates this notion of lake ecology.

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