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Acknowledgements

This topical collection grew out of a 2017 workshop “Understanding Mountain Lakes in a Changing World.” A product of the workshop was a highly successful session at the Association for the Science of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) in 2018, from which many of these papers came. We wish to thank all the presenters and authors who contributed to the ASLO session and the topical collection. James Roberts provided thoughtful review comments.

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Funding for the initial workshop in 2017 on changing conditions in mountain lakes that developed into this topical collection was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Mountain Initiative.

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  1. U. S. Geological Survey, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University Fort Collins CO, Fort Collins, 80526-1499, USA

    Jill S. Baron

  2. Global Water Center, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557-0314, USA

    Sudeep Chandra

  3. University of Montana–Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, 59860-6815, USA

    James J. Elser

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JSB, SC, and JJE wrote the text for this introduction.

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Baron, J.S., Chandra, S. & Elser, J.J. Understanding mountain lakes in a changing world: introduction to the topical collection. Aquat Sci 82, 57 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-020-00722-2

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