Recent climate warming favours more specialized cladoceran taxa in western Canadian Arctic lakes

• Published in: Journal of Biogeography
• Main Authors: Thienpont, Joshua R., Korosi, Jennifer B., Cheng, Elisa S., Deasley, Kayla, Pisaric, Michael F. J., Smol, John P.
• Other Authors: W. Garfield Weston Foundation and Northern Scientific Training Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Ecology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12519; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjbi.12519; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jbi.12519

Abstract Aim Shifts in the distribution of freshwater algal communities as a result of climate‐related limnological changes are well documented; however, impacts on higher trophic levels have received less attention. For example, little is known about how Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda), often d...