Interactions between climate and landscape drive Holocene ecological change in a High Arctic lake on Somerset Island, Nunavut, Canada

• Main Authors: Paull, Tara M., Finkelstein, Sarah, Gajewski, Konrad
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Lake; Canada; Nunavut; Somerset Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/75754; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2016-0013

This study presents a diatom-based analysis of the postglacial Holocene environmental history at Lake RS29 on Somerset Island in the Canadian High Arctic. Earliest post-glacial diatom assemblages (10,200 â 10,000 cal yr BP) consisted mainly of small, benthic Fragilarioid taxa. Poor diatom preservati...