Biological Response to Increasing Water Temperatures in Arctic Coastal Plain Lakes
Biological Responses to Increasing Water Temperatures in Lakes of the Barrow/Atqasuk Focus Watershed: An Interdisciplinary Bioenergetics and Contaminants StudyAbstract
We are conducting an interdisciplinary, collaborative study on several lakes in the Barrow-Atqasuk watershed to better understand how and to what extent continued changes in thermal regimes will affect fish growth, food web structure, and bioaccumulation of mercury. Our research will include both collection of empirical data and modeling, and our overall aim is to enable better predictions of broad-scale ecological and ecotoxicological consequences of climate change in shallow Arctic lakes.
Products
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| Descriptions, Depth to Refusal, and Field-Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Soils on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska, 2012-2016 | Data |
Contacts
Zimmerman, Christian , 907-786-7071Status: completed
Start Year: 2014
End Year: 2018
Project Sites
USGS Mission Area and Program
Ecosystems → Fisheries ProgramMajor Initiatives
LCC - Arctic Landscape Conservation CooperativeUSGS - Marine and Freshwater Ecology