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Prescribed fire is a common management practice for forests and other terrestrial environments. Following a prescribed burn, ash erodes into aquatic environments potentially altering terrestrial-aquatic connectivity and water quality. In this study, we collected a sediment core from Ocean Pond, FL, USA, a lake that has received fire ash from decades of prescribed burning events. Paleolimnological measurements of macrocharcoal, nutrients, stable isotopes (δ 13 C, δ 15 N), and photosynthetic pigments were used to reconstruct fire regimes, material inputs, and lake primary producer responses for periods of prescribed burns and other lake periods throughout the last 8000 years [corrected]. Results show that the period of repeated modern-prescribed fires coincided with decreased C and N depositions in the lake, while P deposition increased causing alterations to nutrient storage and stoichiometry. However, photosynthetic pigments indicated low primary producer abundance during the prescribed fire period. These changes in nutrient dynamics could provide new insights into biogeochemical pathways in land-water connected systems where burning has not been considered.

The publication contained a dating model that was based on AD/BC dates instead of years before present (YBP) dates for the three C 14 AMS values. As a result, dates reported as YBP should be reported as BC. While all of the dates for the prescribed burning period are correct given that they were based on the 210 Pb model, all dates reported as YBP should read BC. Specific changes to the manuscript are as follows: The abstract should read, "throughout the last 8000 years." The final paragraph in the introduction should read, "from the mid-Holocene (~ 6000 BC) to present." The end of the first paragraph in the Results section should read, "the sediment core represented the past ~ 8000 YBP and the core sections below the 210 Pb record averaged sedimentation rates of 1.73 ± 2.1 mg cm -2 year -1 ." All dates presented as Years Before Present or YPB for the remainder of the manuscript should be reported as BC. Added to Acknowledgements: "The authors would like to thank Sally Horn and Matt Boehm with help with the age model and dating." Table 1 has been updated with the "Calibrated Age" column reflecting the correct dates in YBP notation. Figure 2 has been updated to reflect the BC to YBP changes in the calibrated AMS C 14 dates. Both panels have been changed to include the older dates.