Simulated lake phytoplankton composition shifts toward cyanobacteria dominance in a future warmer climate.

The article offers information on the impacts of a regional climate scenario on lake productivity using three models in sequence and quantifies the response in biomass. It states that the expectation for lakes in a warmer world is that spring phytoplankton biomass increase. It notes that a long term strategy to mitigate the negative effects of climate warming on water quality will be to decrease greenhouse gas emissions together with efforts to reduce the nutrient export from the landscape.