Recent climate warming drives ecological change in a remote high-Arctic lake

• Main Authors: Woelders, Lineke, Lenaerts, Jan, Hagemans, Kimberley, Akkerman, Keechy, van Hoof, Thomas B., Hoek, Wim Z.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: CU Scholar 2018
• Subjects: Biogeochemistry; Climate; Fresh Water Studies; Geochemistry; Meteorology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Arctic; Svalbard; Arctic Lake; Barentsøya; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholar.colorado.edu/libr_oafund/90; https://scholar.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1091&context=libr_oafund

The high Arctic is the fastest warming region on Earth, evidenced by extreme near-surface temperature increase in non-summer seasons, recent rapid sea ice decline and permafrost melting since the early 1990’s. Understanding the impact of climate change on the sensitive Arctic ecosystem to climate ch...