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

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: John P. Smol, Madeline Sugar, Katherine Griffiths, Neal Michelutti, Marianne S. V. Douglas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Earth Sciences; Marine and Aquatic Sciences; Bodies of Water; Ponds; Lakes; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Aquatic Environments; Freshwater Environments; Biology and Life Sciences; Organisms; Plants; Algae; Phytoplankton; Diatoms; Animals; Invertebrates; Plankton; Geology; Petrology; Sedimentary Geology; Atmospheric Science; Climatology; Social Sciences; Archaeology; Archaeological Dating; Radioactive Carbon Dating; Research and Analysis Methods; Chemical Characterization; Isotope Analysis; Paleoclimatology; Paleontology; Nonvascular Plants; Mosses; Evolutionary Biology; Marine Biology; Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; epiphytic species; High Arctic; diatom assemblage responses; Condition 2 assemblages; oasis; climate; shift; novel growth forms; epilithic diatom assemblage; Condition 1; Condition 2; High Arctic lakes; Arctic; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Pim Island; Climate change
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172989; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0172989&type=printable; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28296897; http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/28296897; https://core.ac.uk/display/149581772; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2687567072; http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5351862?pdf=render; http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5351862; https://figshare.com/articles/Ice-cover_is_the_principal_driver_of_ecological_change_in_High_Arctic_lakes_and_ponds/4755484

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...