Lakes in hot water: the impacts of a changing climate on aquatic ecosystems

RI Woolway, S Sharma, JP Smol - BioScience, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Our planet is being subjected to unprecedented climate change, with far-reaching social and
ecological repercussions. Below the waterline, aquatic ecosystems are being affected by …

Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

The influence of global climate change on accumulation and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants and chemicals of emerging concern in Arctic food webs

K Borgå, MA McKinney, H Routti, KJ Fernie… - … Science: Processes & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
This review summarizes current understanding of how climate change-driven physical and
ecological processes influence the levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and …

Climate change influence on the levels and trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and chemicals of emerging Arctic concern (CEACs) in the Arctic physical …

H Hung, C Halsall, H Ball, T Bidleman… - … Science: Processes & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Climate change brings about significant changes in the physical environment in the Arctic.
Increasing temperatures, sea ice retreat, slum** permafrost, changing sea ice regimes …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and mercury in the Arctic: Abiotic interactions

J Chételat, MA McKinney, M Amyot, A Dastoor… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dramatic environmental shifts are occuring throughout the Arctic from climate change, with
consequences for the cycling of mercury (Hg). This review summarizes the latest science on …

Earlier ice loss accelerates lake warming in the Northern Hemisphere

X Li, S Peng, Y **, RI Woolway, G Liu - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
How lake temperatures across large geographic regions are responding to widespread
alterations in ice phenology (ie, the timing of seasonal ice formation and loss) remains …

Emerging unprecedented lake ice loss in climate change projections

L Huang, A Timmermann, SS Lee, KB Rodgers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Seasonal ice in lakes plays an important role for local communities and lake ecosystems.
Here we use Large Ensemble simulations conducted with the Community Earth System …

[HTML][HTML] Levels and trends of poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances in the Arctic environment–An update

D Muir, R Bossi, P Carlsson, M Evans, A De Silva… - Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are important environmental contaminants
globally and in the early 2000s they were shown to be ubiquitous contaminants in Arctic …

Inland water greenhouse gas emissions offset the terrestrial carbon sink in the northern cryosphere

C Song, S Liu, G Wang, L Zhang, JA Rosentreter… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Climate-sensitive northern cryosphere inland waters emit greenhouse gases (GHGs) into
the atmosphere, yet their total emissions remain poorly constrained. We present a data …

Six decades of thermal change in a pristine lake situated north of the Arctic Circle

R Noori, RI Woolway, M Saari… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The majority of lake temperature studies have investigated climate‐induced changes
occurring at the lake surface, primarily by analyzing detailed satellite images of surface …