Post-glacial Chironomidae population responses to climate-driven variations in lake production in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Author: Fortin, Marie-Claude
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2010
• Subjects: Climate Change.; Paleoclimate Science.; Biology, Limnology.; Arctic; Boothia Peninsula; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Island Lake; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13290; http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/30103

The purpose of this thesis was to study long-term climatic variations and their impacts on aquatic ecosystem functioning in the Canadian Arctic. Sub-fossil remains of chironomids preserved in lacustrine sediment cores, and the organic, biogenic silica and carbonate fraction of the sediment matrix we...