Coupled landscape-lake evolution in High Arctic Canada

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Hove, Patrick Van, Belzile, Claude, Gibson, John AE, Vincent, Warwick F
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Disraeli Fiord; Taconite Inlet; Romulus Lake; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e06-003; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e06-003

We profiled five ice-covered lakes and two ice-covered fiords of Ellesmere Island at the northern limit of High Arctic Canada to examine their environmental characteristics, and to evaluate the long-term limnological consequences of changes in their surrounding landscape through time (landscape evol...