Fluxes project at North Temperate Lakes LTER: Random lake survey 2004

The overarching goal of this project is to understand carbon and nutrient cycles for a
landscape on which terrestrial and freshwater systems are intimately connected in multiple
and reciprocal ways. In the Northern Highlands region of Wisconsin, they are studying a
spatially complex landscape in which water features make up almost half of the land area,
with wetlands (27% of land surface) and lakes (13%) both prevalent throughout the region,
interspersed in upland forests. Weather and limnological data from a set of 170 lakes in the
NHLD samples summer 2004. The sampled lakes were from a random stratified subsample (N=300
of 7588 total) of all the lakes in the NHLD.