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Information on land-use change and anthropogenic impacts for these 6 lakes is available from the Southwest Florida Water Management District, the St. John’s River Water Management District, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and from regional lake managers in Florida. The six proposed study lakes, as well as the 14 lakes for which we already have cyanobacterial data, were the subject of previous SJRWMD, FDEP, or SWFWMD funded projects which used paleolimnology to document historical changes in water quality. The influence of land-use changes on water quality has been documented for most of these systems. Data on how cyanobacteria have responded to these water quality changes is missing, though, for the six study lakes we propose to investigate in this project.

We will use data from our previous paleolimnological studies to determine appropriate and representative coring sites for this proposed project.