Connections between river runoff and limnological conditions in adjacent high arctic lakes: Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut

Arctic

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-182

  Stewart, Kailey Amanda ^a   Lamoureux, Scott Fraser ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aquatic productivity; Climate change; Freshwater; Hydroclimate; Ice cover; Lake; Limnology; Runoff; Snowmelt; Water chemistry

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GROWING SEASON; ICE COVER; LIMNOLOGY; MIXING; MORPHOLOGY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; RUNOFF; SNOWMELT; VOLUME; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; CAPE BOUNTY; MELVILLE ISLAND [QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS]; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS;

EID: 79958137960     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic4097     Document Type: Article

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