Collaborative Research: An exploration of the direct and indirect effects of climatic warming on arctic lake ecosystems, Fog Lakes, Alaska, 2014-2021 ...

• Main Authors: Budy, Phaedra, Crump, Byron, Christman, Natasha, Thiede, Gary
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: artificial lake warming; climate change; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Climate change; Collaborative Research: An exploration of the direct and indirect effects of climatic warming on arctic lake ecosystems; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2ht2gd3g; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2HT2GD3G

We attempted to experimentally warm an arctic whole lake to mimic the effects of on-going climate warming on food web and whole lake ecosystem process and function. The goals were to increase water temperature by up to 4°C (celsius), deepen epilimnion (warmer surface water layer) by up 2 meters (m),...