The ecological impacts of lakewater calcium decline on softwater boreal ecosystems

A Jeziorski, JP Smol - Environmental Reviews, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
In recent decades, marked declines in calcium (Ca) concentrations have been noted in
many softwater boreal lakes, and are believed to be a long-term consequence of acid …

Aquatic organisms research with DNA barcodes

M Elias-Gutierrez, N Hubert, RA Collins… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Since their inception, DNA barcodes have become a powerful tool for understanding the
biodiversity and biology of aquatic species, with multiple applications in diverse fields such …

A new set of primers for COI amplification from freshwater microcrustaceans

S Prosser, A Martínez‐Arce… - Molecular ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the contribution of DNA barcoding towards understanding the biodiversity and
distribution of species, the success of COI amplification has been quite variable when it …

The noncosmopolitanism paradigm of freshwater zooplankton: insights from the global phylogeography of the predatory cladoceran Polyphemus pediculus (Linnaeus …

S Xu, PDN Hebert, AA Kotov, ME Cristescu - Molecular ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A major question in our understanding of eukaryotic biodiversity is whether small bodied
taxa have cosmopolitan distributions or consist of geographically localized cryptic taxa …

An illustrated guide to the identification of cladoceran subfossils from lake sediments in northeastern North America: part 1—the Daphniidae, Leptodoridae …

JB Korosi, JP Smol - Journal of paleolimnology, 2012 - Springer
Cladocera identifications based on subfossil remains differ considerably from identifications
based on whole animals, yet despite this very few subfossil Cladocera identification guides …

Species diversity and phylogeographical affinities of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada

NW Jeffery, M Elias-Gutierrez, SJ Adamowicz - PLoS One, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The region of Churchill, Manitoba, contains a wide variety of habitats representative of both
the boreal forest and arctic tundra and has been used as a model site for biodiversity studies …

The jellification of north temperate lakes

A Jeziorski, AJ Tanentzap, ND Yan… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Calcium (Ca) concentrations are decreasing in softwater lakes across eastern North
America and western Europe. Using long-term contemporary and palaeo-environmental …

Improved protocols to accelerate the assembly of DNA barcode reference libraries for freshwater zooplankton

M Elías‐Gutiérrez, M Valdez‐Moreno… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, freshwater zooplankton sampling and identification methodologies have
remained virtually unchanged since they were first established in the beginning of the XX …

Effects of road-salt application on Cladocera assemblages in shallow Precambrian Shield lakes in south-central Ontario, Canada

RE Valleau, AM Paterson, JP Smol - Freshwater Science, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Road-salt application is an integral part of winter road maintenance and safety in many cold
regions. However, chloride (Cl−) runoff from salting activities may have adverse ecological …