Post-glacial Chironomidae population responses to climate-driven variations in lake production in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

• Main Author: Fortin, Marie-Claude
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2010
• Subjects: Climate Change; Paleoclimate Science; Biology; Limnology; Arctic; Boothia Peninsula; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Island Lake; Arctic Archipelago; Climate change; Victoria Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30103; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-13290

The purpose of this thesis was to study long-term climatic variations and their impacts on aquatic ecosystem functioning in the Canadian Arctic. Sub-fossil remains of chironomids preserved in lacustrine sediment cores, and the organic, biogenic silica and carbonate fraction of the sediment matrix we...