The under-ice dynamics of High Arctic lakes : the importance of physicochemical interactions with phytoplankton and bacterial communities in Stuckberry Valley, Ellesmere Island

• Main Author: Triglav, Katherine
• Other Authors: Antoniades, Dermot, Bonilla, Sylvia
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université Laval 2021
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Canada; Four Lakes; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/70382

Even the world’s most northern ecosystems have been affected by climate warming and High Arctic lakes are no exception. Ellesmere Island is at the northernmost limit of Canada, and regime shifts have already been documented in its lakes towards taxa associated with longer growing seasons. It has bee...