Researchers Attribute Lake Tahoe's Improved Clarity To A Resurgence Of Native Zooplankton
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Blue waters of Lake Tahoe are making their biggest comeback in nearly 40 years.
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The lake’s clarity has been monitored by the University of California, Davis’ Tahoe Environmental Research Centre for 50 years.
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The improved clarity is attributed by researchers to a resurgence of the lake’s native zooplankton.
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Since the 1980s, Lake Tahoe has been the clearest for the last five months of 2022.
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The UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Centre has released these findings in its report viz. "Lake Tahoe Clarity Report 2022".
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A decline in clarity was caused by algae growth & fine particles in the late 1960s through the turn of the century.
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Clarity in most years has been impacted by a single-celled algae called Phytoplankton Cyclotella.
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Researchers have seen an improvement in winter clarity over the past decade.
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The average annual clarity of nearly 72 feet was measured by the researchers.
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