Recent climate warming favours more specialized cladoceran taxa in western Canadian Arctic lakes

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1553-1565

  Thienpont, Joshua R ^a,b   Korosi, Jennifer B ^a,c   Cheng, Elisa S ^a   Deasley, Kayla ^a   Pisaric, Michael F J ^b   Smol, John P ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; Canada; Cladocera; Climate change; Lakes; Mackenzie Delta; Palaeolimnology; Sediments; Warming; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ALGAL COMMUNITY; ALTITUDE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FILTER FEEDING; HABITAT SELECTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBFOSSIL; TROPHIC LEVEL; WARMING;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; MACKENZIE DELTA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; NOVA SCOTIA;

ACROPERUS HARPAE; ALGAE; ALONA CIRCUMFIMBRIATA; BOSMINA; BRANCHIOPODA; CHYDORUS BREVILABRIS; CLADOCERA; CRUSTACEA; EURYCERCUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84936985051     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12519     Document Type: Article

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