Table 1. List of investigated lakes, sampling strategy, selected physical and chemical variables.
Abbreviations: H–Hungary, A–Austria, B–biweekly, M–monthly.
| Lake | Country | Coordinates | Sampling period | Surface | Mean depth | Electric conductivity | pH | Secchi-disk transparency | Zmix/Zeu | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| and | range | mean | range | mean | range | mean | range | mean | |||||
| frequency | (ha) | (cm) | (μS cm-1) | (cm) | |||||||||
| Lake Balaton Eastern basin | H | N46°58.267'E18°4.921' | 2008–2009, B | 22800 | 370 | 700–998 | 813 | 8.0–9.1 | 8.57 | 38–145 | 75 | 0.4–2.1 | 0.9 |
| Lake Balaton Western basin | H | N46°43.652'E17°16.520' | 2008–2009, B | 3800 | 230 | 727–848 | 747 | 8.1–9.1 | 8.56 | 22–133 | 54 | 0.6–3.2 | 1.3 |
| Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee | H/A | N47°46.228'E16°43.298' | 2008–2009, B | 13800a | 100 | 1990–2600 | 2260 | 8.3–9.3 | 8.79 | 3–60 | 28 | 0.2–5.8 | 1.7 |
| Unterer Strinkersee | A | N47°47.762'E16°47.160' | 2008–2009, B | 36 | 34 | 2830–6620 | 4469 | 8.7–9.4 | 9.04 | 2–47 | 18 | 0.5–13 | 1.6 |
| Böddi-szék pan | H | N46°46.061'E19°8.726' | 2013, M | 198 | 12 | 3190–24200 | 8827 | 9.1–10 | 9.53 | 2–13 | 6.3 | 0.5–2.5 | 1 |
| Fehér-szék pan | H | N46°48.448'E19°11.221' | 2001, 2013, M | 10 | 25 | 949–9500 | 4114 | 8.3–9.7 | 9.01 | 1–27 | 8.0 | 0.6–6 | 2.3 |
| Kelemen-szék pan | H | N46°47.542'E19°10.647' | 2001, 2013, M | 190 | 23 | 1475–16900 | 5783 | 8.7–10.7 | 9.35 | 0.5–8 | 3.4 | 1.3–15 | 4.2 |
| Zab-szék pan | H | N46°50.190'E19°10.283' | 2001, 2013, M | 182 | 20 | 2070–21200 | 7532 | 9.2–10.2 | 9.65 | 0.5–7 | 3.0 | 0.9–7.5 | 3.2 |
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