Lake Communities and Ecosystems Vital Sign for Alaska's Arctic Inventory & Monitoring Network
O'Donnell J. Lake Communities and Ecosystems Vital Sign for Alaska's Arctic Inventory & Monitoring Network. 2015. National Park Service
Lakes are an important component of the Arctic, playing a significant role in biogeochemical cycling and serving as critical habitat for fish and wildlife. Recent climate change in the Arctic has altered lake ecosystems, both through the direct effects of warming on surface water and by altering ecosystem processes and disturbance within lake basins. Large uncertainties exist regarding the spatial extent of these changes and the timing of lake-ecosystem responses to projected climate change. The Lake Communities and Ecosystems vital sign is one of 19 vital signs within the National Park Service’s (NPS) Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN). The ARCN is comprised of five NPS park units, including Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve. The Lake Communities and Ecosystems vital sign focuses primarily on large, deep lakes (generally >5 meters), complementing the ARCN Shallow Lakes vital sign.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- O'Donnell, Jon
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- ARCN , BELA , CAKR , GAAR , KOVA , NOAT
- Keywords
- Alaska, Algae, Bering Land Bridge, Cape Krusenstern, Chemistry, Community, diatom, Erosion, Fish, Gates of the Arctic, Hydrocarbons, Kobuk, LAKE, Macroinvertebrate, macrophytes, Methane, National Park, Noatak, Nutrient, Permafrost, photosynthetically-active radiation, Pond, Productivity, Shorelines, Species Richness, surface area, Temperature, Vegetation, Water Levels, Water Quality, Zooplankton
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Geology and Soils | Geomorphology | Lake Features and Processes , Ecological Framework: Water | Hydrology | Surface Water Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Water Chemistry , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Nutrient Dynamics , Ecological Framework: Water | Water Quality | Aquatic Macroinvertebrates and Algae , Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Freshwater Communities
Program
Products
- The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)
- Lake communities and ecosystems monitoring protocol for the Arctic Network, Alaska
- Data quality standards for lake communities and ecosystems monitoring in Alaska’s Arctic Network
- Standard Operating Procedure: Chemical Characterization of Surface Water
- Standard Operating Procedure: Continuous Lake Temperature Monitoring
- Standard Operating Procedure: Data Management
- Standard Operating Procedure: Data Quality Assurance and Quality Control
- Standard Operating Procedure: Field Measurements
- Standard Operating Procedure: Instrument Calibration for Water Quality Monitoring
- Arctic Network Large Lakes Natural Resource Brief
- Chemical Composition of Large Lakes in Alaska’s Arctic Network, 2013-2014
- Chemical composition of large lakes in Alaska’s Arctic Network: 2013-2014
- Phytoplankton Communities and Biomass in Lakes in the Noatak National Preserve July 2006
- Group I alkenones and Isochrysidales in the world's largest maar lakes and their potential paleoclimate applications
- Lake Chemistry Data for Alaska's Arctic Network, 2013-2018
- Sedimentary biomarkers reaffirm human impacts on northern Beringian ecosystems during the Last Glacial period
- New evidence for a 179 ka age of the Old Crow tephra
- Physical and chemical characteristics of lakes across heterogeneous landscapes in arctic and subarctic Alaska