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

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 6 PART 2, 2009, Pages 2371-2385

  Mueller, Derek R ^a,d   Van Hove, Patrick ^b,e   Antoniades, Dermot ^b   Jeffries, Martin O ^c   Vincent, Warwick F ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e GreenFacts   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRYOSPHERE; ICE COVER; MIXING; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; STRATIFICATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER COLUMN;

CANADA; ELLESMERE ISLAND; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 70649092574     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.54.6_part_2.2371     Document Type: Article

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