Biogeochemical cycling and ecological thresholds in a High Arctic lake (Svalbard)

• Published in: Aquatic Sciences
• Main Authors: Luoto, Tomi P., Rantala, Marttiina V., Kivila, E. Henriikka, Nevalainen, Liisa, Ojala, Antti E. K.
• Other Authors: Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SPRINGER BASEL AG 2019
• Subjects: Bird guano; Carbon; Chironomidae; Diatoms; Microplastic; Nitrogen; RECENT ENVIRONMENTAL-CHANGES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; FRESH-WATER; DIATOM ASSEMBLAGES; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES; LAST MILLENNIUM; PERMAFROST THAW; ORGANIC-MATTER; ISLAND NUNAVUT; LATE HOLOCENE; 1172 Environmental sciences; 1181 Ecology; evolutionary biology; Arctic; Svalbard; Nunavut; Arctic Lake; Guano; Climate change; glacier; Ice; little auk; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/300264

Lakes are a dominant feature of the Arctic landscape and a focal point of regional and global biogeochemical cycling. We collected a sediment core from a High Arctic Lake in southwestern Svalbard for multiproxy paleolimnological analysis. The aim was to find linkages between the terrestrial and aqua...