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Écoscience Volume 18, 2011 - Issue 3: From boreal forest to High Arctic Desert: A theme issue commemorating 50 years of research by the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN) in Eastern Canada
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Extreme ecosystems and geosystems in the Canadian High Arctic: Ward Hunt Island and vicinity

Warwick F. VincentCentre d'études nordiques and Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, [email protected]
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Daniel FortierCentre d'études nordiques and Département de géographie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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Esther LévesqueCentre d'études nordiques and Département de chimie-biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
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Noémie Boulanger-LapointeCentre d'études nordiques and Département de chimie-biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
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Benoît TremblayCentre d'études nordiques and Département de chimie-biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.
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Denis SarrazinCentre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
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Dermot AntoniadesSección Limnología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
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Derek R. MuellerDepartment of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Pages 236-261 | Received 06 Mar 2011, Accepted 24 May 2011, Published online: 03 Dec 2015

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Paschale N. Bégin, Yukiko Tanabe, Milla Rautio, Maxime Wauthy, Isabelle Laurion, Masaki Uchida, Alexander I. Culley & Warwick F. Vincent. (2021) Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports 11:1.
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Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier, Melissa Lafrenière & Warwick F. Vincent. (2020) Periglacial slopewash dominated by solute transfers and subsurface erosion on a High Arctic slope. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 31:4, pages 472-486.
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Jérôme Comte, Alexander I. Culley, Connie Lovejoy & Warwick F. Vincent. (2018) Microbial connectivity and sorting in a High Arctic watershed. The ISME Journal 12:12, pages 2988-3000.
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Blaire Steven, Marie Lionard, Cheryl R. Kuske & Warwick F. Vincent. (2013) High Bacterial Diversity of Biological Soil Crusts in Water Tracks over Permafrost in the High Arctic Polar Desert. PLoS ONE 8:8, pages e71489.
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