Quantifying Recent Ecological Changes in Remote Lakes of North America and Greenland Using Sediment Diatom Assemblages

• Main Authors: William O Hobbs, Richard J Telford, H John B Birks, Jasmine E Saros, Roderick R O Hazewinkel, Bianca B Perren, Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Alexander P Wolfe
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Remote Lake; Climate change
• Online Access: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010026; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0010026&type=printable

Background: Although arctic lakes have responded sensitively to 20th-century climate change, it remains uncertain how these ecological transformations compare with alpine and montane-boreal counterparts over the same interval. Furthermore, it is unclear to what degree other forcings, including atmos...