LTREB: Energy Flow and Climate Control: A Program for Continued Long-Term Research at Castle Lake, California

00- 75468 GoldmanLTEB：能量流动和气候控制：一项在加州城堡湖进行持续长期研究的计划城堡湖长期研究计划是世界上运行时间最长的同类计划之一，自1958年以来，连续的数据集跨越了40多年。这项研究的重点是如何以碳的形式从初级生产者（浮游植物）到消费者（浮游动物），并最终到鱼类的能量流，以及是什么决定了水生态系统中的能量流的效率与气候强迫的年复一年的变化。 特别是，研究人员将研究哪些初级生产者对浮游动物有营养，以及气候的逐年差异如何影响湖泊生态系统中的能量转移过程。这些长期研究将为了解湖泊生态系统如何因未来气候变化而改变提供有用的信息。

00-75468GoldmanLTREB: Energy flow and climate control: A program for continued long-term research at Castle Lake, CAThe Castle Lake long-term research program is one of the longest running programs of its kind in the world, with a continuous data set spanning more than 40 years since 1958. This study focuses on how energy in the form of carbon flows from primary producers (phytoplankton)to consumers (zooplankton) and eventually to fish, and on what determines the efficiency of energy flow in aquatic ecosystems in relation to year-to-year variability of climate forcing. In particular, the investigators will study which primary producers are nutritious to zooplankton and how year-to-year differences in climate affect the energy transfer processes in a lake ecosystem. These long-term studies will provide information useful to understanding how lake ecosystems might be altered by future climate change.