Contemporary limnology of the rapidly changing glacierized watershed of the world’s largest High Arctic lake

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: St. Pierre, K. A., St. Louis, V. L., Lehnherr, I., Schiff, S. L., Muir, D. C. G., Poulain, A. J., Smol, J. P., Talbot, C., Ma, M., Findlay, D. L., Findlay, W. J., Arnott, S. E., Gardner, Alex S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Arctic; Arctic Lake; Changing Lake; Lake Hazen; Ruggles River; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6418217/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30872603; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39918-4

Glacial runoff is predicted to increase in many parts of the Arctic with climate change, yet little is known about the biogeochemical impacts of meltwaters on downstream freshwater ecosystems. Here we document the contemporary limnology of the rapidly changing glacierized watershed of the world’s la...