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

Abstract

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).

Published in

Encyclopedia of earth sciences
2012, pages: 764-767
Title: Encyclopedia of Lakes and Reservoirs
Publisher: Springer

SLU Authors

• Håkanson, Lars

  • Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources

Publication identifier

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

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/132263