Prolonged Ice Cover Dampens Diatom Community Responses to Recent Climatic Change in High Arctic Lakes

References Cited

• ACIA 2004. Impacts of a warming Arctic. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 140 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Antoniades, D. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2005. Quantitative estimates of recent environmental changes in the Canadian High Arctic inferred from diatoms in lake and pond sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 33:349–360.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Antoniades, D. , P. B. Hamilton , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2008. Diatoms of North America: the freshwater floras of Prince Patrick, Ellef Ringnes and Northern Ellesmere Islands from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Iconographica Diatomologica 17:1–649.
   Google Scholar
• Bindler, R. , I. Renberg , N. J. Anderson , P. G. Appleby , O. Emteryd , and J. Boyle . 2001a. Pb isotope ratios of lake sediments in West Greenland: inferences on pollution sources. Atmospheric Environment 35:4675–4685.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bindler, R. , I. Renberg , P. G. Appleby , N. J. Anderson , and N. L. Rose . 2001b. Mercury accumulation rates and spatial patterns in lake sediments from West Greenland: A coast to ice margin transect. Environmental Science & Technology 35:1736–1741.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Binford, M. W. 1990. Calculation and uncertainty analysis of 210Pb dates for PIRLA project lake sediment cores. Journal of Paleolimnology 3:253–267.
   Google Scholar
• Braun, C. , D. R. Hardy , and R. S. Bradley . 2004. Mass balance and area changes of four High Arctic plateau ice caps, 1959–2002. Geografiska Annaler Series A–Physical Geography 86A:43–52.
   Google Scholar
• Christie, R. L. 1964. Geological reconnaissance of northeastern Ellesmere Island, District of Franklin Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 331:. 79 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Doubleday, N. C. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 1995. Paleoenvironmental studies of black carbon deposition in the High Arctic—A case-study from northern Ellesmere Island. Science of the Total Environment 161:661–668.
   Google Scholar
• Douglas, M. S. V. and J. P. Smol . 1999. Freshwater diatoms as indicators of environmental change in the High Arctic. In Stoermer, E. F. and J. P. Smol , editors. The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 227–244.
   Google Scholar
• Douglas, M. S. V. , J. P. Smol , and W. Blake Jr . 1994. Marked post-18th century environmental change in high-arctic ecosystems. Science 266:416–419.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Douglas, M. S. V. , P. B. Hamilton , R. Pienitz , and J. P. Smol . 2004. Algal indicators of environmental change in Arctic and Antarctic lakes and ponds. In Pienitz, R. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol , editors. Long-Term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes Dordrecht Springer. 117–158.
   Google Scholar
• Environment Canada 1994. Manual of Analytical Methods Burlington, Canada National Laboratory for Environmental Testing, Canadian Centre for Inland Waters. 2 vols. 1097 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Glew, J. R. 1988. A portable extruding device for close interval sectioning of unconsolidated core samples. Journal of Paleolimnology 2:241–243.
   Google Scholar
• Glew, J. R. 1989. A new trigger mechanism for sediment samplers. Journal of Paleolimnology 2:241–243.
   Google Scholar
• Heiri, O. , A. F. Lotter , and G. Lemcke . 2001. Loss on ignition as a method for estimating organic and carbonate content in sediments: reproducibility and comparability of results. Journal of Paleolimnology 25:101–110.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hill, M. O. 1973. Diversity and evenness: a unifying notation and its consequences. Ecology 54:427–432.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Karst-Riddoch, T. L. 2004. Sedimentary diatoms from sensitive alpine (northwest Canada) and subarctic (Iceland) lakes as indicators of environmental and climatic conditions Ph.D. thesis. Kingston, Canada Department of Biology, Queen's University. 194 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Keatley, B. E. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2007. Limnological characteristics of a high Arctic oasis and comparisons across northern Ellesmere Island. Arctic 60:294–308.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Koerner, R. M. and D. A. Fisher . 1990. A record of Holocene summer climate from a Canadian High-Arctic ice core. Nature 343:630–631.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Krammer, K. 2002. Diatoms of Europe: Cymbella Ruggell A.R.G. Gantner Verlag. 584 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Krammer, K. and H. Lange-Bertalot . 1986–1991. Bacillariophyceae Stuttgart Gustav Fisher Verlag. 2485 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Lepš, J. and P. Šmilauer . 2003. Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data using CANOCO Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 269 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Lim, D. S. S. , C. Kwan , and M. S. V. Douglas . 2001. Periphytic diatom assemblages from Bathurst Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic: An examination of community relationships and habitat preferences. Journal of Phycology 37:379–392.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lotter, A. F. and C. Bigler . 2000. Do diatoms in the Swiss Alps reflect the length of ice-cover. Aquatic Sciences 62:125–141.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meteorological Service of Canada 2006. Monthly Climate Data Environment Canada (http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/climateData/monthlydata_e.html). Accessed July 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Michelutti, N. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2003a. Diatom response to recent climatic change in a High Arctic lake (Char Lake, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut). Global and Planetary Change 38:257–271.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Michelutti, N. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2003b. Periphytic diatom assemblages from ultra-oligotrophic and UV transparent lakes and ponds on Victoria Island and comparisons with other diatom surveys in the Canadian Arctic. Journal of Phycology 39:465–480.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oliver, D. R. and P. S. Corbet . 1966. Operation Hazen: Aquatic Habitats in a High Arctic Locality: the Hazen Camp Study Area, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T Ottawa Department of National Defence. 126 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Parr, J. F. , K. H. Taffs , and C. M. Lane . 2004. A microwave digestion technique for the extraction of fossil diatoms from coastal lake and swamp sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 31:383–390.
   Google Scholar
• Paterson, A. M. , A. A. Betts-Piper , J. P. Smol , and B. A. Zeeb . 2003. Diatom and chrysophyte algal response to long-term PCB contamination from a point-source in northern Labrador, Canada. Water Air and Soil Pollution 145:377–393.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Perren, B. B. , R. S. Bradley , and P. Francus . 2003. Rapid lacustrine response to recent High Arctic warming: a diatom record from Sawtooth Lake, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35:271–278.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pienitz, R. , M. S. V. Douglas , and J. P. Smol . 2004. Long-Term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes Dordrecht Springer. 550 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Rühland, K. , A. Priesnitz , and J. P. Smol . 2003. Paleolimnological evidence from diatoms for recent environmental changes in 50 lakes across Canadian Arctic treeline. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35:110–123.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Saros, J. E. , S. J. Interlandi , A. P. Wolfe , and D. R. Engstrom . 2003. Recent changes in the diatom community structure of lakes in the Beartooth Mountain Range, USA. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35:18–23.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith, I. R. 2002. Diatom-based Holocene paleoenvironmental records from continental sites on northeastern Ellesmere Island, High Arctic, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:9–28.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith Jr, S. V. , R. S. Bradley , and M. B. Abbott . 2004. A 300 year record of environmental change from Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 32:137–148.
   Google Scholar
• Smol, J. P. 1983. Paleophycology of a High Arctic lake Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island. Canadian Journal of Botany 61:2195–2204.
   Google Scholar
• Smol, J. P. 1988. Paleoclimate proxy data from freshwater Arctic diatoms. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 23:837–844.
   Google Scholar
• Smol, J. P. 2008. Pollution of Lakes and Rivers: a Paleoenvironmental Perspective Second edition. Oxford Blackwell Publishing. 383 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Smol, J. P. , A. P. Wolfe , H. J. B. Birks , M. S. V. Douglas , V. J. Jones , A. Korhola , R. Pienitz , K. Ruhland , S. Sorvari , D. Antoniades , S. J. Brooks , M. A. Fallu , M. Hughes , B. E. Keatley , T. E. Laing , N. Michelutti , L. Nazarova , M. Nyman , A. M. Paterson , B. Perren , R. Quinlan , M. Rautio , E. Saulnier-Talbot , S. Siitoneni , N. Solovieva , and J. Weckstrom . 2005. Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102:4397–4402.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Solovieva, N. , V. J. Jones , L. Nazarova , S. J. Brooks , H. J. B. Birks , J. A. Grytnes , P. G. Appleby , T. Kauppila , B. Kondratenok , I. Renberg , and V. Ponomarev . 2005. Palaeolimnological evidence for recent climatic change in lakes from the northern Urals, Arctic Russia. Journal of Paleolimnology 33:463–482.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Soper, J. H. and J. M. Powell . 1985. Botanical Studies in the Lake Hazen Region, Northern Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Canada Ottawa Publications in Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada. 67 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Sorvari, S. , A. Korhola , and R. Thompson . 2002. Lake diatom response to recent Arctic warming in Finnish Lapland. Global Change Biology 8:171–181.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stoermer, E. F. and J. P. Smol . 1999. The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 469 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Thompson, R. , D. Price , N. Cameron , V. Jones , C. Bigler , P. Rosen , R. I. Hall , J. Catalan , J. Garcia , J. Weckstrom , and A. Korhola . 2005. Quantitative calibration of remote mountain-lake sediments as climatic recorders of air temperature and ice-cover duration. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 37:626–635.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thompson, W. 1994. Climate. In . Resource Description and Analysis: Ellesmere Island, National Park Reserve Winnipeg National Resource Conservation Section, Prairie and Northern Region, Parks Canada, Department of Canadian Heritage. 78 pp.
   Google Scholar
• Wolfe, A. P. 2000. A 6500-year record from southwestern Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. In Garneau, M. and B. T. Alt , editors. Environmental Response to Climate Change in the Canadian High Arctic Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 529,. 249–256.
   Google Scholar
• Wolfe, A. P. , J. S. Baron , and R. J. Cornett . 2001. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition induces rapid ecological changes in alpine lakes of the Colorado Front Range (USA). Journal of Paleolimnology 25:1–7.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wolfe, A. P. , C. A. Cooke , and W. O. Hobbs . 2006. Are current rates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition influencing lakes in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 38:465–476.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar