Benthic macroinvertebrate biomass and wildfires: evidence for enrichment of boreal subarctic lakes

• Published in: Freshwater Biology
• Main Authors: Scrimgeour, Garry J., Tonn, William M., Paszkowski, Cynthia A., Goater, Cameron
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2427.2001.00682.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2427.2001.00682.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2427.2001.00682.x

1 We quantified the effects of forest fire on littoral benthic macroinvertebrate biomass on a boreal subarctic plateau in Alberta, Canada. Water chemistry and benthos were collected from six lakes, 1 and 2 years following a 1995 fire which burned about 91% of their catchments (i.e. recently burnt la...