Title
Tracking the long-term responses of diatoms and cladocerans to climate warming and human influences across lakes of the Ring of Fire in the Far North of Ontario, Canada
Author(s)
Kathryn E. Hargan, Clare Nelligan, Adam Jeziorski, Kathleen M. Rühland, Andrew M. Paterson, Wendel Keller, John P. Smol
Published
2016
Publisher
journal of paleolimnology
Abstract
The extensive peatlands and lakes of the far north of Ontario are significant carbon sinks, making this a region of increasing priority under a changing climate. However, competing economic interest has also increased within this region due to the recent discovery of vast mineral deposits, known as “the ring of fire”. Environmental monitoring to establish baseline ecological information for a vulnerable region will be imperative at a time where the impacts of future resources extraction, within the context of multiple stressors (climate warming), is unknown. To determine biotic responses to warming prior to the commencement of mining activities, this study examined core sediments from lakes (deep and shallow) located within the Ring of Fire.
Full Citation
Hargan, K.E., Nelligan, C., Jeziorski, A. et al. J Paleolimnol (2016) 56: 153. doi:10.1007/s10933-016-9901-7
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