Iceland – Lake Myvatn – Lake to Land Fluxes
Nutrients are exchanged between ecosystems in many ways. The direction and magnitude of fluxes across the landscape can dramatically influence ecosystem processes. In Lake Myvatn in northern Iceland, an abundance of midges (in Icelandic, ‘my’ is midge, and ‘vatn’ is lake) emerge from the lake on a boom-and-bust cycle approximately every 7 years and create a visible …