DEVELOPMENTS AFFECTING NORTHERN LAKES: A LITTORAL PERSPECTIVE

摘要

Aquatic effects monitoring programs for diamond mine projects in the North are required to monitor project-related changes to lake productivity. To date, these monitoring programs have focused on characterizing the chemical and biological conditions at pelagic (open-water) locations (e.g., water chemistry, chlorophyll a concentrations, phytoplank-ton, and zooplankton). Pelagic monitoring programs make sense in deep lakes, with little to no littoral zones, but the majority of small northern lakes are shallow and have extensive littoral zones.