Winter Limnology: How do Hydrodynamics and Biogeochemistry Shape Ecosystems Under Ice?

Using untapped telemetry data to explore the winter biology of freshwater fish

(2021) J. E. Marsden et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Continuous dynamics of dissolved methane over two years and its carbon isotopes (δ13C, Δ14C) in a small Arctic lake in the Mackenzie Delta In preparation for: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

(2021) Hadley A. McIntosh Marcek et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Under Ice and Early Summer Phytoplankton Dynamics in Two Arctic Lakes with Differing DOC

(2021) V. Hazuková et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Efficiency of crustacean zooplankton in transferring allochthonous carbon in a boreal lake

(2020) Guillaume Grosbois et al.   ECOLOGY

The dependence of the consumption of dissolved oxygen on lake morphology in ice covered lakes

(2020) Lars Bengtsson et al.   HYDROLOGY RESEARCH

Winter in water: differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity

(2020) Bailey C. McMeans et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Remote sensing northern lake methane ebullition

(2020) M. Engram et al.   Nature Climate Change

Mixing, stratification, and plankton under lake‐ice during winter in a large lake: Implications for spring dissolved oxygen levels

(2020) Bernard Yang et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Integrating Perspectives to Understand Lake Ice Dynamics in a Changing World

(2020) Sapna Sharma et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Under‐ice mesocosms reveal the primacy of light but the importance of zooplankton in winter phytoplankton dynamics

(2020) Allison R. Hrycik et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Fasting or feeding: A planktonic food web under lake ice

(2020) Marie‐Elodie Perga et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Under-ice convection dynamics in a boreal lake

(2019) Damien Bouffard et al.   Inland Waters

Widespread loss of lake ice around the Northern Hemisphere in a warming world

(2019) Sapna Sharma et al.   Nature Climate Change

Influence of water column stratification and mixing patterns on the fate of methane produced in deep sediments of a small eutrophic lake

(2019) Dominic Vachon et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Diurnal variation in the convection-driven vertical distribution of phytoplankton under ice and after ice-off in large Lake Onego (Russia)

(2019) Ena Lucia Suarez et al.   Inland Waters

Differing responses in milk composition from introducing rapeseed and naked oats to conventional and organic dairy diets

(2019) Gillian Butler et al.   Scientific Reports

Life under ice in Lake Onego (Russia) – an interdisciplinary winter limnology study

(2019) Alfred Wüest et al.   Inland Waters

Swimming eukaryotic microorganisms exhibit a universal speed distribution

(2019) Maciej Lisicki et al.   eLife

Contrasting Winter Versus Summer Microbial Communities and Metabolic Functions in a Permafrost Thaw Lake

(2019) Adrien Vigneron et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Climate‐Sensitive Controls on Large Spring Emissions of CH 4 and CO 2 From Northern Lakes

(2019) J. Jansen et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Mixing processes in small arctic lakes during spring

(2019) Alicia Cortés et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Under‐ice salinity transport in low‐salinity waterbodies

(2019) Jason Olsthoorn et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Internal waves pump waters in and out of a deep coastal embayment of a large lake

(2019) Bryan Flood et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A rotiferan version of the punishment of Sisyphus?

(2019) M.E. Perga et al.   ECOLOGY

Giant ice rings on lakes and field observations of lens‐like eddies in the Middle Baikal (2016–2017)

(2019) Alexei V. Kouraev et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Winter nitrification in ice-covered lakes

(2019) Emily Cavaliere et al.   PLoS One

Dynamic changes in dissolved organic matter composition in a Mountain Lake under ice cover and relationships to changes in nutrient cycling and phytoplankton community composition

(2019) Garrett P. Rue et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Differential Heating Drives Downslope Flows that Accelerate Mixed‐Layer Warming in Ice‐Covered Waters

(2019) Hugo N. Ulloa et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Microbial life under ice: Metagenome diversity and in situ activity of Verrucomicrobia in seasonally ice-covered lakes

(2018) Patricia Tran et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Effects of Climate Variability on Snowmelt and Implications for Organic Matter in a High-Elevation Lake

(2018) Steven Sadro et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Carbon Dioxide and Methane Dynamics in a Small Boreal Lake During Winter and Spring Melt Events

(2018) B. A. Denfeld et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

The unique methodological challenges of winter limnology

(2018) Benjamin D. Block et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

The effects of salt exclusion during ice formation on circulation in lakes

(2017) Cynthia E. Bluteau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL FLUID MECHANICS

Total mercury concentrations in liver and muscle of European whitefish ( Coregonus lavaretus (L.)) in a subarctic lake - Assessing the factors driving year-round variation

(2017) Ossi Keva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

High-Frequency Observations of Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen Reveal Under-Ice Convection in a Large Lake

(2017) Bernard Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Scaling oxygen microprofiles at the sediment interface of deep stratified waters

(2017) Robert Schwefel et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Increasing frequency and duration of Arctic winter warming events

(2017) Robert M. Graham et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Abundant carbon substrates drive extremely high sulfate reduction rates and methane fluxes in Prairie Pothole Wetlands

(2017) Paula Dalcin Martins et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Flowpath and retention of snowmelt in an ice-covered arctic lake

(2017) Alicia Cortés et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Winter weather and lake-watershed physical configuration drive phosphorus, iron, and manganese dynamics in water and sediment of ice-covered lakes

(2017) DongJoo Joung et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

In the cold light of day: the potential importance of under-ice convective mixed layers to primary producers

(2017) P. Pernica et al.   Inland Waters

Mixotrophic Phytoflagellate Bacterivory Field Measurements Strongly Biased by Standard Approaches: A Case Study

(2017) Ruth Anderson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Seasonal Variation in Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial Methanotrophs in Five Temperate Lakes

(2017) Md Sainur Samad et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Under-ice availability of phytoplankton lipids is key to freshwater zooplankton winter survival

(2017) Guillaume Grosbois et al.   Scientific Reports

Changing Arctic snow cover: A review of recent developments and assessment of future needs for observations, modelling, and impacts

(2016) Stef Bokhorst et al.   AMBIO

Ecology under lake ice

(2016) Stephanie E. Hampton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ice-covered Lake Onega: effects of radiation on convection and internal waves

(2016) Damien Bouffard et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Autotrophic and heterotrophic plankton under ice in a eutrophic temperate lake

(2016) Krystyna Kalinowska et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Temporal plasticity in thermal-habitat selection of burbotLota lotaa diel-migrating winter-specialist

(2016) P. M. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Winter–spring diatom production in Lake Erie is an important driver of summer hypoxia

(2016) Euan D. Reavie et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Giant ice rings on lakes Baikal and Hovsgol: Inventory, associated water structure and potential formation mechanism

(2016) Alexei V. Kouraev et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Fall Composition of Storage Lipids is Associated with the Overwintering Strategy of Daphnia

(2016) Heather L. Mariash et al.   LIPIDS

Unanticipated Geochemical and Microbial Community Structure under Seasonal Ice Cover in a Dilute, Dimictic Arctic Lake

(2016) Ursel M. E. Schütte et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Variable sediment oxygen uptake in response to dynamic forcing

(2016) Lee D. Bryant et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Allochthonous carbon is a major regulator to bacterial growth and community composition in subarctic freshwaters

(2016) Toni Roiha et al.   Scientific Reports

The mobility of phosphorus, iron, and manganese through the sediment–water continuum of a shallow eutrophic freshwater lake under stratified and mixed water-column conditions

(2015) Courtney D. Giles et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

(2015) Christopher T. Solomon et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Dynamic Coupling of Iron, Manganese, and Phosphorus Behavior in Water and Sediment of Shallow Ice-Covered Eutrophic Lakes

(2015) Andrew W. Schroth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Axisymmetric circulation driven by marginal heating in ice-covered lakes

(2015) G. B. Kirillin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Winter severity determines functional trait composition of phytoplankton in seasonally ice-covered lakes

(2015) Deniz Özkundakci et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A fish-eye view on the new Arctic lightscape

(2015) Øystein Varpe et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Evidence for internal phosphorus loading in a large prairie reservoir (Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan)

(2015) Rebecca L. North et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Heating up a cold subject: prospects for under-ice plankton research in lakes

(2015) S. E. Hampton et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Regular build-up of the spring phytoplankton maximum before ice-break in a boreal lake

(2015) Pauliina Salmi et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

The “Melosira years” of Lake Baikal: Winter environmental conditions at ice onset predict under-ice algal blooms in spring

(2015) Stephen L. Katz et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Oxygen dynamics in permafrost thaw lakes: Anaerobic bioreactors in the Canadian subarctic

(2015) Bethany N. Deshpande et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Large methane emissions from a subarctic lake during spring thaw: Mechanisms and landscape significance

(2015) Mathilde Jammet et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Stable isotopes track biogeochemical processes under seasonal ice cover in a shallow, productive lake

(2014) Christopher H. Gammons et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Cyclical size change and population dynamics of a planktonic diatom,Aulacoseira baicalensis, in Lake Baikal

(2014) David H. Jewson et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Effects of light and prey availability on Arctic freshwater protist communities examined by high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing

(2014) Sophie Charvet et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Numerical investigation of internal wave-induced sediment motion: Resuspension versus entrainment

(2014) Jason Olsthoorn et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Dual fuels: intra-annual variation in the relative importance of benthic and pelagic resources to maintenance, growth and reproduction in a generalist salmonid fish

(2014) Brian Hayden et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Basin-scale circulation and heat fluxes in ice-covered lakes

(2014) William Rizk et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Interannual variability of circulation under spring ice in a boreal lake

(2014) Kalevi Salonen et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Massive Regime Shifts and High Activity of Heterotrophic Bacteria in an Ice-Covered Lake

(2014) Mina Bižić-Ionescu et al.   PLoS One

The under-ice microbiome of seasonally frozen lakes

(2013) Stefan Bertilsson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A cyclonic gyre in an ice-covered lake

(2013) Alexander L. Forrest et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Density- and Size-Dependent Winter Mortality and Growth of Late Chaoborus flavicans Larvae

(2013) Arne Schröder   PLoS One

Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession

(2012) Ulrich Sommer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The role of winter phenology in shaping the ecology of freshwater fish and their sensitivities to climate change

(2012) B. J. Shuter et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

Physics of seasonally ice-covered lakes: a review

(2012) Georgiy Kirillin et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

The influence of bacteria-dominated diets on Daphnia magna somatic growth, reproduction, and lipid composition

(2012) Sami J. Taipale et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Diatoms abound in ice-covered Lake Erie: An investigation of offshore winter limnology in Lake Erie over the period 2007 to 2010

(2012) M.R. Twiss et al.   JOURNAL OF GREAT LAKES RESEARCH

Methane Carbon Supports Aquatic Food Webs to the Fish Level

(2012) Angela M. Sanseverino et al.   PLoS One

Fluid circulation and seepage in lake sediment due to propagating and trapped internal waves

(2012) Jason Olsthoorn et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Vertical distribution of microbial communities in a perennially stratified Arctic lake with saline, anoxic bottom waters

(2012) André M. Comeau et al.   Scientific Reports

Preconditioning of an underflow during ice-breakup in a subarctic lake

(2011) Alexander L. Forrest et al.   AQUATIC SCIENCES

River and lake ice thickening, thinning, and snow ice formation

(2011) George D. Ashton   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Simulation of North American lake-ice cover characteristics under contemporary and future climate conditions

(2011) Yonas Dibike et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Effects of permafrost and hydrology on the composition and transport of dissolved organic carbon in a subarctic peatland complex

(2011) David Olefeldt et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Effect of salt exclusion from lake ice on seasonal circulation

(2011) Roger Pieters et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Mineralization pathways in lake sediments with different oxygen and organic carbon supply

(2011) Martin Maerki et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Seasonal shifts between autochthonous and allochthonous carbon contributions to zooplankton diets in a subarctic lake

(2011) Milla Rautio et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Relating sediment phosphorus mobility to seasonal and diel redox fluctuations at the sediment-water interface in a eutrophic freshwater lake

(2011) Lydia Smith et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Seasonal and hydrologic drivers of dissolved organic matter and nutrients in the upper Kuparuk River, Alaskan Arctic

(2010) Amy Townsend-Small et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

A parameterized model of heat storage by lake sediments

(2010) Sergey Golosov et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Modelling circulation in an ice-covered lake

(2010) T Huttula et al.   Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences

Biogenic methane in freshwater food webs

(2010) ROGER I. JONES et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Larger zooplankton in Danish lakes after cold winters: are winter fish kills of importance?

(2010) D. Balayla et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Winter respiration of allochthonous and autochthonous organic carbon in a subarctic clear-water lake

(2010) Jan Karlsson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Convectively driven transport in temperate lakes

(2010) Alexander L. Forrest et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Estimating methane emissions from northern lakes using ice-bubble surveys

(2010) Katey M. Walter Anthony et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

The response and role of ice cover in lake-climate interactions

(2010) Laura C. Brown et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Perspectives in winter limnology: closing the annual cycle of freezing lakes

(2009) K. Salonen et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Development of phytoplankton in Lake Pääjärvi (Finland) during under-ice convective mixing period

(2009) Anu Vehmaa et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Radiation transfer and heat budget during the ice season in Lake Pääjärvi, Finland

(2009) Juho Jakkila et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Effect of winter conditions on distributions of anoxic phototrophic bacteria in two meromictic lakes in Siberia, Russia

(2009) D. Y. Rogozin et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Distribution and development of under-ice phytoplankton in 90-m deep water column of Lake Päijänne (Finland) during spring convection

(2009) Mari Kiili et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Some features of the thermal and dissolved oxygen structure in boreal, shallow ice-covered Lake Vendyurskoe, Russia

(2009) A. Terzhevik et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Effect of snow depth on under-ice irradiance and growth of Aulacoseira baicalensis in Lake Baikal

(2009) David H. Jewson et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Basin-scale internal waves in the bottom boundary layer of ice-covered Lake Müggelsee, Germany

(2009) Georgiy Kirillin et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Seasonal habitat selection by lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in a small Canadian shield lake: constraints imposed by winter conditions

(2009) Paul J. Blanchfield et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Climate Change and the World's “Sacred Sea”—Lake Baikal, Siberia

(2009) Marianne V. Moore et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Benthic algae support zooplankton growth during winter in a clear-water lake

(2009) Jan Karlsson et al.   OIKOS

The Influence of Dissolved Oxygen on Winter Habitat Selection by Largemouth Bass: An Integration of Field Biotelemetry Studies and Laboratory Experiments

(2009) C. T. Hasler et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY

Zooplankton feeding on algae and bacteria under ice in Lake Druzhby, East Antarctica

(2009) Christin Säwström et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY