Synthesis of limnological data from lakes and ponds across Arctic and Boreal Canada

Author:

Dranga Stefana Aurora1,Hayles Simon2,Gajewski Konrad3

Affiliation:

1. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

2. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

3. Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada.

Abstract

A compilation of published and new limnological data from 1489 shallow lakes and ponds in northern Canada, sampled between 1979 and 2009, revealed significant patterns that correlated with landscape features and climate. Lakes and ponds underlain by Archean or Proterozoic bedrock had lower specific conductivity and pH. Vegetation cover had a lesser influence on these parameters. Forested landscapes tended to have higher phosphorus and nitrogen, as did younger rock types. Dissolved organic carbon was higher, but dissolved inorganic carbon was lower in forested regions. Phytoplankton biomass of the surface waters, as estimated by chlorophyll a concentrations, was positively correlated with July air temperature and nutrients, and was higher in forested relative to polar desert regions. There were no significant differences in the measured limnological variables between shallow (<2 m depth) and deep lakes (>2 m); however, all water chemistry parameters were negatively correlated with depth. Despite large variability within and among regions, spatial trends in water chemistry were associated with geology, vegetation, and climate at a continental scale.

Publisher

Canadian Science Publishing

Subject

General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science

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