Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake”
Great Slave Lake (GSL), one of the world's largest and deepest lakes, has undergone an aquatic ecosystem transformation in response to twenty-first century accelerated Arctic warming that is unparalleled in at least the past two centuries. Algal remains from four high-resolution palaeolimnologi...
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ftroysocietyfig:oai:figshare.com:article/24038114 2023-10-09T21:48:46+02:00 Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” Kathleen M. Rühland Marlene Evans John P. Smol 2023-08-26T13:34:07Z https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24038114.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Electronic_Supplementary_Material_for_Arctic_warming_drives_striking_21st_century_ecosystem_shifts_in_Great_Slave_Lake_Subarctic_Canada_North_America_s_deepest_lake_/24038114 unknown doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.24038114.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Electronic_Supplementary_Material_for_Arctic_warming_drives_striking_21st_century_ecosystem_shifts_in_Great_Slave_Lake_Subarctic_Canada_North_America_s_deepest_lake_/24038114 CC BY 4.0 Environmental Science Ecology diatoms palaeolimnology large lake climate change lake ice Northwest territories Text Journal contribution 2023 ftroysocietyfig https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24038114.v2 2023-09-13T23:10:29Z Great Slave Lake (GSL), one of the world's largest and deepest lakes, has undergone an aquatic ecosystem transformation in response to twenty-first century accelerated Arctic warming that is unparalleled in at least the past two centuries. Algal remains from four high-resolution palaeolimnological records retrieved from the West Basin provide baseline limnological data that we compared to historical phycological surveys undertaken on GSL between the 1940s and 1990s. We document the rapid restructuring of algal community composition ca . 2000 CE that is consistent with recent increases in regional air temperature and declines in ice cover and wind speed, that collectively altered habitats for aquatic biota. This new limnological regime initiated the first observation of scaled chrysophytes and favoured the rapid proliferation of small planktonic cyclotelloid diatoms which replaced the long-established dominance of large filamentous Aulacoseira islandica in West Basin sedimentary records. Such abrupt transformations in the primary producers of this socio-ecologically valuable ‘northern Great Lake’ may have widespread implications for the entire food web with unknown consequences for aquatic ecosystem functioning and fisheries, which First Nations, Métis, and other northern communities depend upon, pointing to the need for new studies. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change First Nations Great Slave Lake Northwest Territories Subarctic The Royal Society: Figshare Arctic Canada Great Slave Lake ENVELOPE(-114.001,-114.001,61.500,61.500) Lake May ENVELOPE(-119.991,-119.991,59.920,59.920) Northwest Territories |
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Great Slave Lake (GSL), one of the world's largest and deepest lakes, has undergone an aquatic ecosystem transformation in response to twenty-first century accelerated Arctic warming that is unparalleled in at least the past two centuries. Algal remains from four high-resolution palaeolimnological records retrieved from the West Basin provide baseline limnological data that we compared to historical phycological surveys undertaken on GSL between the 1940s and 1990s. We document the rapid restructuring of algal community composition ca . 2000 CE that is consistent with recent increases in regional air temperature and declines in ice cover and wind speed, that collectively altered habitats for aquatic biota. This new limnological regime initiated the first observation of scaled chrysophytes and favoured the rapid proliferation of small planktonic cyclotelloid diatoms which replaced the long-established dominance of large filamentous Aulacoseira islandica in West Basin sedimentary records. Such abrupt transformations in the primary producers of this socio-ecologically valuable ‘northern Great Lake’ may have widespread implications for the entire food web with unknown consequences for aquatic ecosystem functioning and fisheries, which First Nations, Métis, and other northern communities depend upon, pointing to the need for new studies. |
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Kathleen M. Rühland Marlene Evans John P. Smol |
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Kathleen M. Rühland Marlene Evans John P. Smol |
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Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” |
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Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” |
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Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” |
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Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” |
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Electronic Supplementary Material for “Arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in Great Slave Lake (Subarctic Canada), North America's deepest lake” |
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electronic supplementary material for “arctic warming drives striking 21st century ecosystem shifts in great slave lake (subarctic canada), north america's deepest lake” |
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https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24038114.v2 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Electronic_Supplementary_Material_for_Arctic_warming_drives_striking_21st_century_ecosystem_shifts_in_Great_Slave_Lake_Subarctic_Canada_North_America_s_deepest_lake_/24038114 |
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ENVELOPE(-114.001,-114.001,61.500,61.500) ENVELOPE(-119.991,-119.991,59.920,59.920) |
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Arctic Canada Great Slave Lake Lake May Northwest Territories |
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Arctic Canada Great Slave Lake Lake May Northwest Territories |
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Arctic Climate change First Nations Great Slave Lake Northwest Territories Subarctic |
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Arctic Climate change First Nations Great Slave Lake Northwest Territories Subarctic |
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