Changes in glacial meltwater alter algal communities in lakes of Scoresby Sund, Renland, East Greenland throughout the Holocene: Abrupt reorganizations began 1000 years before present

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Slemmons, Krista EH, Medford, Aaron, Hall, Brenda L, Stone, Jeffery R, McGowan, Suzanne, Lowell, Thomas, Kelly, Meredith, Saros, Jasmine E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2016
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Greenland; Renland; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Sund; East Greenland; glacier; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683616678468; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683616678468; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683616678468

We investigated the response of lake algal communities to changes in glacial meltwater from the Renland Ice Cap (Greenland) through the Holocene to assess whether influxes always elicit consistent responses or novel responses. We measured sedimentary algal pigments in two proximal lakes, snow-fed Ra...