Past and Future Changes in Arctic Lake and River Ice

• Published in: AMBIO
• Main Authors: Terry Prowse, Knut Alfredsen, Spyros Beltaos, Barrie Bonsal, Claude Duguay, Atte Korhola, Jim McNamara, Reinhard Pienitz, Warwick F. Vincent, Valery Vuglinsky, Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0216-7

Paleolimnological evidence from some Arctic lakes suggests that longer ice-free seasons have been experienced since the beginning of the nineteenth century. It has been inferred from some additional records that many Arctic lakes may have crossed an important ecological threshold as a result of rece...