Introduction to the Northwest Ontario Lake Size Series (NOLSS). Fee, E., J. & Hecky, R., E. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 49(12):2434-2444, 1992.
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The primary purpose of NOLSS is to discover how lake size per se influences limnological and fisheries phenomena, so that conclusions drawn from studies of particular lakes can be rigorously scaled and applied to lakes of other sizes. NOLSS consists of six lakes located in a remote wilderness region of Northwest Ontario. These lakes were chosen for their geological, hydrological, and morphological similarity but they form an exponential gradient in surface area from 89 to 34 700 ha. Associated with this gradient of lake size are gradients of physical properties (turbulent energy, mixing depth, thermal behaviour) to which biological communities must adapt. -from Authors

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