Swedish glacial lakes: Estimation of the number of lakes of different sizes

Sammanfattning

How many lakes are there in Sweden? Such seemingly nonsensical questions are discussed in the scientific literature. But what is the relevance of the question? It may very well be nonsensical from many perspectives but not if one would like to use such estimates to determine the breeding grounds for toads, mosquitoes, beavers, or wild orchids. The basic aim of this section is to provide an estimate of the total number of lakes in Sweden. The method to do this concerns transformations, regressions, and extrapolations (Håkanson and Peters, 1995).

Publicerad i

Encyclopedia of earth sciences
2012, sidor: 764-767
Titel: Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs
Utgivare: Springer

SLU författare

• Håkanson, Lars

  • Institutionen för vatten och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

UKÄ forskningsämne

Oceanografi, hydrologi, vattenresurser

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4410-6_196
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-5616-1
• eISBN: 978-1-4020-4410-6

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