Covering 55% of Canada's total surface area and stretching from coast to coast to coast, the
Canadian boreal zone is crucial to the nation's economic and ecological integrity. Although …

This study investigates regional changes in primary producers in boreal head-water lakes
during the warmer early-to-mid-Holocene (EMH) period, across the present-day boreal …

Boreal regions and their freshwater ecosystems may be susceptible to future climate change
under projected warmer conditions. Northwest Ontario is a boreal region adjacent to the …

The island syndrome hypothesis (ISH) stipulates that, as a result of local selection pressures
and restricted gene flow, individuals from island populations should differ from individuals …

Records of century-scale climate variability in the Upper Midwest generally agree that
moisture availability increased between 4000 and 3000 cal. yr BP (calendar years before …

Palaeolimnological reconstruction of the aquatic environment in Lake Komořany, based on
sedimentology, geochemistry, and diatom and macrofossil analyses in the littoral part of the …

We investigated the modern distribution of fossil midges within a dimictic lake and explored
downcore patterns of inferred lake depths over the last 2000 years from previously …

Lake sediments provide an unparalleled source of proxy records of Holocene climate
change and landscape response. Existing studies show overall synchrony in the upper …

(TITLE OF THE THESIS)* Page 1 IMPORTANCE OF CLIMATE ON BOREAL LAKES FROM
NORTHWEST ONTARIO OVER MILLENNIA: A PALEOLIMNOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by …