Evaluating the role of local climate change on reduced freshwater availability at the Peace-Athabasca Delta using paleolimnology

• Main Author: Brown, Kathleen
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2022
• Subjects: climate change; Peace-Athabasca Delta; paleolimnology; hydrology; Lake Athabasca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18346

Abundant small, shallow lakes across northern freshwater landscapes are particularly sensitive to alteration of hydrological processes, which makes them vulnerable to multiple potential stressors. At the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD; Treaty 8; northeastern Alberta), a Ramsar Wetland of International I...