Major changes in fish thermal habitat diversity in Canada's Arctic lakes due to climate change ...

• Main Authors: Gillis, Daniel, Minns, Charles, Campana, Steven, Shuter, Brian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2024
• Subjects: Arctic; Lakes; water temperature; lake stratification; Ice Phenology; Climate change; Fish habitat; Thermal Ecology; Thermal Guild; modelling; Impact Lake
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10537207; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10537207

Climate warming is a major disruptor of fish community structure globally. We use large-scale geospatial analyses of 447,077 Canadian Arctic lakes to predict how climate change would impact lake thermal habitat diversity across the Arctic landscape. Increases in maximum surface temperature (+2.4–6.7...