Diatom communities in the High Arctic aquatic habitats of northern Spitsbergen (Svalbard)

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Zgrundo, Aleksandra, Majewska, Roksana, Wojtasik, Barbara, Convey, Peter
• Other Authors: 29675146 - Majewska, Roksana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Diatom absence; Diatom assemblages; Frustule dissolution; Lakes; Sediment analysis; Polar; Arctic; Svalbard; Wijdefjorden; Woodfjorden; Polar Biology; Wijdefjord*; Woodfjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/21527; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2014-y; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-016-2014-y

As High Arctic environments are particularly sensitive to global and regional climate changes, a growing number of studies have focused on that region. It has been shown that living and fossil diatoms can be successfully used to track environmental changes in polar habitats. Nevertheless, the diatom...