Lake Sediment Microbial Communities in the Anthropocene

• Main Author: Ruuskanen, Matti Olavi
• Other Authors: Poulain, Alexandre, Aris-Brosou, Stéphane
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2019
• Subjects: microbial ecology; anthropocene; metagenomics; arctic; climate change; mercury; Arctic; Canada; Lake Hazen; Climate change; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39649; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-23892

Since the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century, anthropogenic changes in the environment have shifted from the local to the global scale. Even remote environments such as the high Arctic are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Similarly, anthropogenic mercury (Hg) has had a...