, Volume 591, Issue 1, pp 103-115  Evaluating climatic and non-
climatic influences on ion chemistry in natural and man-made
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Access   Conductivity and major ion chemistry data were analyzed
for a suite of Nebraska (USA) natural lakes, reservoirs, sand
pits, and barrow pits to evaluate the magnitude of climatic
versus non-climatic influence on ionic concentration and
composition. In both natural lakes and sand and barrow pits,
conductivity is positively related to longitude and reflects
decreasing effective moisture from east to west. Reservoirs
showed no relationship between lake conductivity and location,
probably because the reservoirs are very strongly influenced by
groundwater and surface water inflow and have shorter residence
times relative to the other lake types. At smaller spatial
scales, conductivity among natural lakes is variable. Lakes that
are at low elevation within a grou