

Author: Michelutti Neal Smol John P. Douglas Marianne S.V.
Publisher: NRC Research Press
ISSN: 1480-3305
Source: Canadian Journal of Botony, Vol.84, Iss.11, 2006-11, pp. : 1695-1713
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Abstract
Relationships between modern surface sediment diatom assemblages and measured water chemistry variables were examined from 30 lakes and ponds on Axel Heiberg Island (Nunavut) in the Canadian High Arctic. Canonical correspondence analysis with forward selection and Monte Carlo permutation tests identified dissolved organic carbon, dissolved inorganic carbon, specific conductance, and pH as the measured environmental variables explaining significant proportions of the diatom variance. Canonical correspondence analysis axis 1 represented a gradient of specific conductance, and axis 2 was influenced primarily by pH. To increase the signal-to-noise ratio in our reconstructions, the species data sets were refined to include only taxa that had significant responses to either conductivity or pH, as determined by Huisman Olff Fresco models of species–environment relationships. Diatom-based inference models were subsequently developed for both lakewater specific conductance (
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