Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, California, USA

Vertical redistribution of zooplankton in an oligotrophic lake associated with reduction in ultraviolet radiation by wil...

Published in Geophysical Research Letters

We used a natural experiment to test whether wildfire smoke induced changes in the vertical distribution of zooplankton in Lake Tahoe by decreasing incident ultraviolet radiation (UV). Fires have a variety of effects on aquatic ecosystems, but these impacts are poorly understood and have rarely been observed directly. UV is an important driver of z...