Impacts of climatic change and environmental stress on aquatic ecosystems

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To explore the potential responses of northern freshwater ecosystems and their watersheds to climate change and to place instrumental temperature records into a long-term perspective, we will use a multi-proxy paleolimnological approach to generate detailed paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental records from lake sediment archives in the eastern Canadian Arctic. These records will be synthesized and the resulting time series analyzed to allow regional comparisons with ice core data from Greenland as well as with paleoceanographic data from surrounding marine environments. Our central objective is to generate a network of decadal-millennial scale records of quantitative variations in limnological parameters that will provide a better understanding of the range of natural environmental variability in northeastern Canada, and allow us to explore fundamental questions concerning postglacial ecosystem succession in northern landscapes.