Development and Application of Periphyton-Based Biomonitoring Methods to Elucidate Aquatic Ecosystem Responses of Lakes in a Water-Rich Northern Landscape (Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada) to Climate Change

• Main Author: Mohammed, Wathiq
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2022
• Subjects: Periphytic diatoms; Artificial-substrate samplers; Shallow lakes; Thermokarst lakes; Old Crow Flats; Biomonitoring; Arctic; Yukon; Canada; Climate change; Gwitchin; Ice; Old Crow; permafrost; Subarctic; Thermokarst
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18950

Shallow freshwater lakes are abundant in Arctic and subarctic regions, where they provide important wildlife habitat and sustain the cultural heritage and traditional land use of Indigenous communities. Concern over effects of climate change on shallow northern lakes, including warming and associate...