Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba
The enhanced warming in the Subarctic is thawing the permafrost in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), making the peatlands carbon sources to the atmosphere. In the HBL, studies have observed that the shallow aquatic systems are sequesters of carbon. In this study, we observed that temperature is a signi...
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ftyorkuniv:oai:yorkspace.library.yorku.ca:10315/37478 2023-05-15T15:55:07+02:00 Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba Rimas, Ryan Ivan Bello, Richard 2020-05-11T12:55:24Z application/pdf https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37478 en eng https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/37478 Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests. Biogeochemistry Physical geography Limnology Ecology Cyanobacteria Respiration Photosynthesis Net ecosystem exchange Carbon dioxide Carbon sequestration Sequestration Autochthonous carbon processing Benthic algae Biological activity Sediment Linear modeling Climate change Greenhouse gases Electronic Thesis or Dissertation 2020 ftyorkuniv 2022-08-22T13:11:20Z The enhanced warming in the Subarctic is thawing the permafrost in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), making the peatlands carbon sources to the atmosphere. In the HBL, studies have observed that the shallow aquatic systems are sequesters of carbon. In this study, we observed that temperature is a significant variable in determining respiration rates from extracted pond sediment cores that were manipulated in incubation experiments. In the ponds that were studied, Strange Pond had an average sequestration or net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of -0.71 mol/m2/s and the average oxygen production was 1.03 mol/m2/s. The ponds were benthically driven cyanobacteria and was responsible for the processing of autochthonous carbon in the system. It was found that as the area of the pond becomes smaller, the spatial location of pond water and benthos sampling is of minor importance in characterizing the pond as a whole. Thesis Churchill Hudson Bay permafrost Subarctic York University, Toronto: YorkSpace Hudson Hudson Bay |
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Biogeochemistry Physical geography Limnology Ecology Cyanobacteria Respiration Photosynthesis Net ecosystem exchange Carbon dioxide Carbon sequestration Sequestration Autochthonous carbon processing Benthic algae Biological activity Sediment Linear modeling Climate change Greenhouse gases Rimas, Ryan Ivan Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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Biogeochemistry Physical geography Limnology Ecology Cyanobacteria Respiration Photosynthesis Net ecosystem exchange Carbon dioxide Carbon sequestration Sequestration Autochthonous carbon processing Benthic algae Biological activity Sediment Linear modeling Climate change Greenhouse gases |
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The enhanced warming in the Subarctic is thawing the permafrost in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), making the peatlands carbon sources to the atmosphere. In the HBL, studies have observed that the shallow aquatic systems are sequesters of carbon. In this study, we observed that temperature is a significant variable in determining respiration rates from extracted pond sediment cores that were manipulated in incubation experiments. In the ponds that were studied, Strange Pond had an average sequestration or net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of -0.71 mol/m2/s and the average oxygen production was 1.03 mol/m2/s. The ponds were benthically driven cyanobacteria and was responsible for the processing of autochthonous carbon in the system. It was found that as the area of the pond becomes smaller, the spatial location of pond water and benthos sampling is of minor importance in characterizing the pond as a whole. |
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Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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Within Pond Variations of Gas Fluxes and the Spatio-temporal Variations of Benthic Algae and Limnological Characteristics in Shallow Ponds Located in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL), near Churchill, Manitoba |
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within pond variations of gas fluxes and the spatio-temporal variations of benthic algae and limnological characteristics in shallow ponds located in the hudson bay lowlands (hbl), near churchill, manitoba |
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Churchill Hudson Bay permafrost Subarctic |
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