Freshwater Ecosystems

The Arctic contains an abundant and wide range of freshwater ecosystems, including lakes, ponds, rivers and streams and a complex array of wetlands and deltas. This broad range of freshwater ecosystem types contains a multitude of habitats of varying ecological complexity and supports a diversity of permanent and transitory organisms adapted to living in an often highly variable and extreme environment. Moreover, these habitats and species provide important ecological and economic services to northern peoples through the provision of subsistence foods (fish, aquatic birds and mammals), serve as seasonally important transportation corridors (e.g. ice roads), and are ecologically and culturally important habitat for resident and migratory aquatic species. (Arctic Biodiversity Assessment 2013.)

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Sampling Coverage by FEC

FEMG points 

Current and Historical Sampling Coverage by Focal Ecosystem Component (FEC).

 

Zip file includes 2 shapefiles (lakes and rivers)

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity Monitoring Plan

CAFF Monitoring Series Report No. 7. December 2012

The proportion (%) of peatland within Arctic Russia

peat map

The proportion (%) of peatland within Arctic Russia, after 

Vompersky S.E., Sirin A., Tsyganova, O.P., Valyaeva, N.A. &
Maikov, D.A. 2005. Peatland and paludified lands of Russia:
attempt at analysis of spatial distribution and diversity:
Izvestia RAS: Geography. 5:39–50.

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

Total lake abundance and inundation area have declined since 1973 including permanent drainage and revegetation of former lakebeds

permafrost cd

Total lake abundance and inundation area have declined since 1973 including permanent drainage and revegetation of former lakebeds (the arrow and oval show representative areas).

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

 

Percentage change in surface water area for ponds and lakes, 1951–1972 and 1972–2001 in Old Crow Basin, Canada

lakes oldcrowflats

Percentage change in surface water area for ponds and lakes, 1951–1972 and 1972–2001 in Old Crow Basin, Canada

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

Time series of freeze-up and break-up dates from northern hemisphere rivers and lakes, 1846–1995.

icecovertrends

Time series of freeze-up and break-up dates from northern hemisphere rivers and lakes, 1846–1995. Data were smoothed with a 10-year moving average

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

Permafrost decay rates for frozen peatlands in northen Quebec

peatloss

Permafrost decay rates for frozen peatlands in northen Quebec

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

 
 

Net increases in lake abundance and area have occurred in continuous permafrost, suggesting an initial but transitory increase in surface ponding

permafrost b ot

Net increases in lake abundance and area have occurred in continuous permafrost, suggesting an initial but transitory increase in surface ponding

 

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF)

www.caff.is 

The data can be downloaded freely.

Users are requested to reference it source.

i.e. Arctic Biodiversity Trends 2010.

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