Title: Water chemistry and sediment core data from small, shallow lakes of the Taiga Plains (Northwest Territories, Canada)
Citation: Korosi, J., Coleman, K., Palmer, M., Thienpont, J. (2025). Water chemistry and sediment core data from small, shallow lakes of the Taiga Plains (Northwest Territories, Canada). YorkSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42896
Study Site: Northwest Territories
Purpose: Lake browning has been widely projected for northern lakes affected by permafrost thaw, but the inherent heterogeneity in permafrost landscapes coupled with a paucity of data for many regions makes it challenging to develop circumpolar-scale assessments.
Abstract: This dataset provides surface water chemistry from 35 small, shallow (0.5-3 m) lakes in discontinuous permafrost peatlands of the Taiga Plains (Northwest Territories, Canada), which were distributed across two Level IV ecoregions (Cameron Uplands, Tathlina Plain). This dataset also provides a comparison subfossil diatom assemblages between present-day (2012-2018) and ~1850 in 23 Taiga Plains lakes distributed across three Level IV ecoregions (Cameron Uplands, Tathlina Plain, South Mackenzie Plain).
Supplemental Information Summary:
Research:
Further Info: Kristen A. Coleman, Michael J. Palmer, William L. Quinton, Joshua R. Thienpont, Jennifer B. Korosi,
Spatiotemporal variability in chromophoric dissolved organic carbon in small, shallow lakes from discontinuous permafrost peatlands (Taiga Plains, Northwest Territories, Canada), Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Volume 82, 2025, Pages 1-12, ISSN 0706-652X, https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0339
Status: Complete
Keywords:
peat properties,
permafrost,
dissolved organic carbon,
Geographical coordinates: North: 61.58, South: 60.38 East: -116.63 West: -121.70
Bounding Temporal Extent: Start Date: 2012-03-01, End
Date: 2018-06-30
