Shallow freshwater ecosystems of the circumpolar Arctic

M Rautio, F Dufresne, I Laurion, S Bonilla… - Ecoscience, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This review provides a synthesis of limnological data and conclusions from studies on ponds
and small lakes at our research sites in Subarctic and Arctic Canada, Alaska, northern …

Ace Lake: three decades of research on a meromictic, Antarctic lake

J Laybourn-Parry, EM Bell - Polar Biology, 2014 - Springer
Abstract Ace Lake (Vestfold Hills, Antarctica) has been investigated since the 1970s. Its
close proximity to Davis Station has allowed year-long, as well as summer only …

Break‐up of the largest Arctic ice shelf and associated loss of an epishelf lake

DR Mueller, WF Vincent… - Geophysical Research …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Field observations and RADARSAT imagery of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf (lat. 83° N, long. 74°
W), Nunavut, Canada, show that it broke in two over the period 2000 to 2002, with additional …

High Arctic lakes as sentinel ecosystems: Cascading regime shifts in climate, ice cover, and mixing

DR Mueller, P Van Hove, D Antoniades… - Limnology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Climate and cryospheric observations have shown that the high Arctic has experienced
several decades of rapid environmental change, with warming rates well above the global …

Bio-optical characteristics of the snow, ice, and water column of a perennially ice-covered lake in the High Arctic

C Belzile, WF Vincent, JAE Gibson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2001 - cdnsciencepub.com
Lake A is a meromictic, perennially ice-covered lake located at the northern limit of North
America (latitude 83° N, Ellesmere Island, Canada). In early June 1999, only 0.45% of …

Pyrosequencing analysis of the protist communities in a High Arctic meromictic lake: DNA preservation and change

S Charvet, WF Vincent, A Comeau… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
High Arctic meromictic lakes are extreme environments characterized by cold temperatures,
low nutrient inputs from their polar desert catchments and prolonged periods of low …

Extreme ecosystems and geosystems in the Canadian High Arctic: Ward Hunt Island and vicinity

WF Vincent, D Fortier, E Lévesque… - Ecoscience, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Global circulation models predict that the strongest and most rapid effects of global warming
will take place at the highest latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Consistent with this …

Ice characteristics and processes, and remote sensing of frozen rivers and lakes

MO Jeffries, K Morris, N Kozlenko - Remote Sensing in Northern …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter is a broad overview of ice characteristics and processes on northern rivers and
lakes in the time between initial ice formation in autumn and final melt-out in spring. Using …

Limnology of two Antarctic epishelf lakes and their potential to record periods of ice shelf loss

JA Smith, DA Hodgson, MJ Bentley, E Verleyen… - Journal of …, 2006 - Springer
Abstract George VI Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf on the western side of the Antarctic
Peninsula and its northern margin marks the southern most latitudinal limit of recent ice shelf …

Distribution, diversity and biomass of summer zooplankton from the coastal Canadian Beaufort Sea

W Walkusz, JE Paulić, S Kwaśniewski, WJ Williams… - Polar Biology, 2010 - Springer
Composition, abundance, biomass and distribution of zooplankton in the coastal Canadian
Beaufort Sea were studied in the summer of 2005 and 2006. Data were collected from two …