Lake Lanotoʻo
Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Infobox body of water Lake Lanoto'o is a Volcanic crater lake on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It is the largest lake in Samoa.[1] The lake is surrounded by Lake Lanoto'o National Park and is designated as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.[2]
The lake is Vorlage:Convert long with a maximum depth of Vorlage:Convert and an area of 11 hectares,[3] with a water temperature of Vorlage:Convert and a pH of 5.72.[4] The crater is between 100,000 and 1 million years old.[3]
Sediment cores from the lake have been used to date the human settlement of Upolu[5] and of Polynesia,[3] and to study the paleoclimate and past ecology of Upolu.[6]
The lake provides an important habitat for the Pacific black duck and Spotless crake.[1] Goldfish were introduced during the German colonial period.[1]
References
- ↑ a b c Samoa. SPREP, S. 12–16, abgerufen am 8. August 2021.
- ↑ Lake Lanoto'o. Ramsar Sites Information Service, abgerufen am 8. August 2021.
- ↑ a b c David A. Sear, Melinda S. Allen, Jonathan D. Hassall, Ashley E. Maloney, Peter G. Langdon: Human settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific drought. In: PNAS. 117. Jahrgang, Nr. 24, 16. Juni 2020, S. 2, doi:10.1073/pnas.2008788117, PMC 7306803 (freier Volltext) – (pnas.org [PDF; abgerufen am 8. August 2021]).
- ↑ Robert Schabetsberge, Gabriele Drozdowski, Eugen Rott, Rupert Lenzenweger, Christian D. Jersabek: Losing the Bounty? Investigating Species Richness in Isolated Freshwater Ecosystems of Oceania. In: Pacific Scienc. 63. Jahrgang, Nr. 2, 2009, S. 156 (bioone.org [abgerufen am 8. August 2021]).
- ↑ William D. Gosling, David A. Sear, Jonathan Hassall, Peter G. Langdon: Human occupation and ecosystem change on Upolu (Samoa) during the Holocene. In: Journal of Biogeography. 47. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, doi:10.1111/jbi.13783 (wiley.com [abgerufen am 8. August 2021]).
- ↑ Vorlage:Cite thesis