Abstract

Studies of sedimentation processes in four western Washington lakes reveal up to sixfold variations in sedimentation rates over the past 130 years of settlement in the region. These variations in sedimentation can be linked with known changes in land use in the watersheds, especially logging, which appears to have accelerated erosion.Contemporary deposition of phosphorus into profundal sediments is positively correlated with phytoplankton productivity in the four lakes. If a similar relationship existed in the past when sedimentation rates of phosphorus were different, then increases in primary productivity from twofold to fourfold could have occurred in three of the lakes since about 1840.

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