Comparison of Freshwater Diatom Assemblages from a High Arctic Oasis to Nearby Polar Desert Sites and Their Application to Environmental Inference Models

• Published in: Journal of Phycology
• Main Authors: Michelutti, Neal, McCleary, Kathryn, Douglas, Marianne S.V., Smol, John P.
• Other Authors: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Plant Science; Aquatic Science; Arctic; Ellesmere Island; Lake Hazen; polar desert
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12024; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fjpy.12024; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpy.12024

Arctic oases are regions of atypical warmth and relatively high biological production and diversity. They are small in area (<5 km 2 ) and uncommon in occurrence, yet they are relatively well studied due to the abundance of plant and animal life contained within them. A notable exception is the l...