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Here we have chlorophyll
concentration in ppb is along the y-axis and year along the x-axis, depicting
mean annual chlorophyll concentrations in ppb at site 1 from 1976 to 2005.
This graph shows that historical mean chlorophyll concentrations have remained
below 10 ppb. This is good news because other lakes with annual algal blooms,
like China Lake, have much higher chlorophyll-a concentrations than this,
which indicates higher productivity levels. However, we do see a trend in
increasing chlorophyll-a levels, which is something to be concerned about,
and, as we will see later, fits with the transparency data.
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