HIGH ARCTIC PONDS RECEIVING BIOTRANSPORTED NUTRIENTS FROM A NEARBY SEABIRD COLONY ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY TOXIC LOADINGS OF ARSENIC, CADMIUM, AND ZINC

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (11) ◽  
pp. 2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha K. Brimble ◽  
Karen L. Foster ◽  
Mark L. Mallory ◽  
Robie W. Macdonald ◽  
John P. Smol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Seabird Colony ◽  
Arctic Ponds

Limnology of high arctic ponds (Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, N. W. T.)

1994 ◽  
Vol 131 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-434
Author(s):  
Marianne S. V. Douglas ◽  
John P. Smol
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Arctic Ponds

Rotifers from five high arctic ponds (Cape Herschel, Ellesmere Island, N.W.T.)

Hydrobiologia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 173 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nogrady ◽  
John P. Smol
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Arctic Ponds

Contrasting the effects of climatic, nutrient, and oxygen dynamics on subfossil chironomid assemblages: a paleolimnological experiment from eutrophic High Arctic ponds

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Stewart ◽  
Neal Michelutti ◽  
Jules M. Blais ◽  
Mark L. Mallory ◽  
Marianne S. V. Douglas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Chironomid Assemblages ◽  
Arctic Ponds ◽  
Subfossil Chironomid ◽  
Oxygen Dynamics

A test of the possible influence of seabird activity on the 210Pb flux in high Arctic ponds at Cape Vera, Devon Island, Nunavut: implications for radiochronology

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 783-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Michelutti ◽  
J. M. Blais ◽  
H. Liu ◽  
B. E. Keatley ◽  
M. S. V. Douglas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Devon Island ◽  
Arctic Ponds

Chironomid assemblages from seabird-affected High Arctic ponds

Polar Biology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 799-812 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal Michelutti ◽  
Mark L. Mallory ◽  
Jules M. Blais ◽  
Marianne S. V. Douglas ◽  
John P. Smol
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Chironomid Assemblages ◽  
Arctic Ponds

scholarly journals Sustainability of High Arctic Ponds in a Polar Desert Environment

ARCTIC ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Abnizova ◽  
Kathy L. Young
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Desert Environment ◽  
Polar Desert ◽  
Arctic Ponds

Hillslope hydrological linkages: importance to ponds within a polar desert High Arctic wetland

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Abnizova ◽  
Kathy L. Young
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Patterned Ground ◽  
Polar Desert ◽  
Hydrologic Processes ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Arctic Ponds ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
Somerset Island

Arctic wetland environments are considered to be sensitive to ongoing climate change but they have received limited attention despite their ecological importance. To understand and quantify better the hydrologic processes which are leading to the sustainability and demise of High Arctic ponds, a water balance framework was employed on several ponds situated in two broad geomorphic areas near Creswell Bay, Somerset Island (72°43′N, 94°15′W). These ponds are also linked to an upland area through a range of linear features: stream, late-lying snowbeds and frost cracks. This study assesses the importance of these features with respect to the sustainability of these wetland ponds. A pond's position in the moraine landscape was important in determining its connectivity to a nearby stream and late-lying snowbed. Close proximity to a stream draining a large upland snow-covered catchment ensures steady water levels during the snowmelt period. Once discharge slows, a late-lying snowbed continues to supply the pond and others nearby with meltwater. The deeply thawed, sandy coastal zone is characterized by frost cracks, which contribute to the patterned ground of this wetland zone. These cracks, when situated downslope of ponds, function primarily as ‘sinks’ and serve to deprive small and medium-sized ponds of water during dry periods, often leading to their desiccation.

An ~1100 yr record of human and seabird occupation in the High Arctic inferred from pond sediments

Geology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhan Cheng ◽  
Linda E. Kimpe ◽  
Mark L. Mallory ◽  
John P. Smol ◽  
Jules M. Blais
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Population Expansion ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Biological Productivity ◽  
Devon Island ◽  
Seabird Colony ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Δ15n And Δ13c

Seabirds in the Canadian Arctic congregate in large colonies, producing oases of biological productivity and diversity in coastal regions. Here, we examined sterols, stanols, and stable isotopes (δ15N and δ13C) in three 14C-dated pond sediment cores near a large seabird colony and archaeological site on Devon Island (Nunavut, Canada), showing historical occupation by the seabirds and an ancient human (Thule or Norse) settlement over an ~1100 yr time period. Coprostanol in the sediment records captures the presence of humans at ca. 1150 CE, followed by their abandonment of the site by ca. 1300 CE. Increased seabird presence at this site after ca.1200 CE is indicated by increases in δ15N and cholesterol/sitosterol. Seabird population expansion is observed after ca. 1600 CE in δ15N and cholesterol/sitosterol profiles, coinciding with European whaling activities that expanded in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Our study provides insights into human and seabird occupation in the High Arctic to inform archaeological and conservation efforts.

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