Arctic coastal freshwater ecosystem responses to a major saltwater intrusion: A landscape-scale palaeolimnological analysis

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Thienpont, Joshua R, Johnson, Daniel, Nesbitt, Holly, Kokelj, Steven V, Pisaric, Michael FJ, Smol, John P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Northwest Territories; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612455538; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683612455538; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683612455538

Because of decreasing sea-ice extent and increasingly frequent Arctic storms, low-lying coastal ecosystems are at heightened risk from marine storm surges. A major Arctic storm event originating in the Beaufort Sea in September 1999 resulted in the flooding of a large area of the outer alluvial plai...