Arctic warming drives striking twenty-first century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Rühland, Kathleen M., Evans, Marlene, Smol, John P.
• Other Authors: ECCC, Arctic Environmental Strategy Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Northern River Basins Study
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Great Slave Lake; Lake May; First Nations; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1252; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2023.1252; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2023.1252

Great Slave Lake (GSL), one of the world's largest and deepest lakes, has undergone an aquatic ecosystem transformation in response to twenty-first-century accelerated Arctic warming that is unparalleled in at least the past two centuries. Algal remains from four high-resolution palaeolimnologi...