Hidden biofilms in a far northern lake and implications for the changing Arctic

• Published in: npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
• Main Authors: Mohit, Vani, Culley, Alexander, Lovejoy, Connie, Bouchard, Frédéric, Vincent, Warwick F.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
• Subjects: Brief Communication; Arctic; Arctic Lake
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500582/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-017-0024-3

Shallow lakes are common across the Arctic landscape and their ecosystem productivity is often dominated by benthic, cyanobacterial biofilms. Many of these water bodies freeze to the bottom and are biologically inactive during winter, but full freeze-up is becoming less common with Arctic warming. H...