Ice-cover is the principal driver of ecological change in High Arctic lakes and ponds

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Griffiths, Katherine, Michelutti, Neal, Sugar, Madeline, Douglas, Marianne S. V., Smol, John P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Canada; Ellesmere Island; Nunavut; Pim Island; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351862/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296897; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172989

Recent climate change has been especially pronounced in the High Arctic, however, the responses of aquatic biota, such as diatoms, can be modified by site-specific environmental characteristics. To assess if climate-mediated ice cover changes affect the diatom response to climate, we used paleolimno...