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Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change.

Bégin, Paschale-Noël; Tanabe, Yukiko; Rautio, Milla; Wauthy, Maxime; Laurion, Isabelle; Uchida, Masaki; Culley, Alexander I. et Vincent, Warwick (2021). Water column gradients beneath the summer ice of a High Arctic freshwater lake as indicators of sensitivity to climate change. Scientific Reports , vol. 11 , nº 1. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-82234-z.

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Résumé

Ice cover persists throughout summer over many lakes at extreme polar latitudes but is likely to become increasingly rare with ongoing climate change. Here we addressed the question of how summer ice-cover affects the underlying water column of Ward Hunt Lake, a freshwater lake in the Canadian High Arctic, with attention to its vertical gradients in limnological properties that would be disrupted by ice loss. Profiling in the deepest part of the lake under thick mid-summer ice revealed a high degree of vertical structure, with gradients in temperature, conductivity and dissolved gases. Dissolved oxygen, nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane rose with depth to concentrations well above air-equilibrium, with oxygen values at > 150% saturation in a mid-water column layer of potential convective mixing. Fatty acid signatures of the seston also varied with depth. Benthic microbial mats were the dominant phototrophs, growing under a dim green light regime controlled by the ice cover, water itself and weakly colored dissolved organic matter that was mostly autochthonous in origin. In this and other polar lakes, future loss of mid-summer ice will completely change many water column properties and benthic light conditions, resulting in a markedly different ecosystem regime.

Type de document: Article
Mots-clés libres: changements climatiques; Arctique; lacs;
Centre: Centre Eau Terre Environnement
Date de dépôt: 28 mars 2022 21:09
Dernière modification: 13 juin 2023 21:36
URI: https://espace.inrs.ca/id/eprint/11976

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