Chrysophyte microfossils record marked responses to recent environmental changes in high- and mid-arctic lakes

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Botany
• Main Authors: Wolfe, Alexander P, Perren, Bianca B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2001
• Subjects: Plant Science; Arctic; Baffin Island; Ellesmere Island; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Lake; Cumberland Peninsula; Fosheim Peninsula; Arctic Archipelago; Baffin; polar desert
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b01-044; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b01-044

Rapid stratigraphic changes are recorded in recent assemblages of subfossil Chrysophyceae from the sediments of two highly contrasted arctic lakes, one situated in the polar desert of west-central Ellesmere Island, and the other on eastern Baffin Island in the mid-Arctic climatic zone. In Sawtooth L...