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Nordicana
D92 / DOI :
10.5885/45741CE-38138EC6C8E849AD
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Limnological and pigment data from the Great Whale River and surrounding surface waters.
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Marie-Amélie Blais1,2,
Alex Matveev1,2,
Warwick F. Vincent1,2
1Département de Biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
2Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Abstract
Northern terrestrial ecosystems are undergoing rapid transformation, potentially affecting the chemistry and microbial community structure in rivers flowing through them. From 2 to 10 August 2018, we sampled surface waters from the Great Whale River (GWR), three of its tributaries (Coats, Denys, and Kwakwatanikapistikw rivers), the GWR plume flowing into Hudson Bay, and the Sasapimakwananistikw River. This limnological and pigment dataset is complementary to an amplicon dataset (prokaryotes and microbial eukaryotes) available at the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (BioProject: PRJNA744875). It includes data for nutrients (total nitrogen and phosphorus, total dissolved nitrogen), carbon (dissolved organic and inorganic), dissolved organic carbon characterization (SUVA254, SR, a320, S289), cell abundance measured by flow cytometry, salinity, total suspended sediment concentration, and pigments determined by high-performance liquid chromatography.
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Blais, M.A., Matveev, A., Vincent, W.F. 2021. Limnological and pigment data from the Great Whale River and surrounding surface waters., v. 1 (2018-2018). Nordicana D92, doi: 10.5885/45741CE-38138EC6C8E849AD.
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Blais, M.-A., Matveev, A., Lovejoy, C, and Vincent, W.F. 2021. Microbiome structure in subarctic rivers passing through degrading permafrost catchments to the sea. (under review). |
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Nozais, C., Vincent, W.F., Belzile, C., Gosselin, M., Blais, M-A, Canário, J. and Archambault, P. 2021. The Great Whale River ecosystem: Ecology of a subarctic river and its receiving waters in coastal Hudson Bay, Canada. Ecoscience. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2021.1926137.
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We thank the communities of Kuujjuarapik and Whapmagoostui, Sydney Arruda for the help at the field station, Marc-Antoine Bansept for his assistance in the field, Marie-Josée Martineau for technical assistance with the HPLC analysis, Aurélie Rivard for HPLC chromatogram analysis, our helicopter pilot Yancy Yergeau, Lise Rancourt and the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Eau-Terre-Environnement (INRS-ETE) for chemical analyses. Finally, we thank Sentinel North (CFREF), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Canada Research Chair program, the Canada Network of Excellence ArcticNet, and the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN) for funding and support.
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Version 1
(2018-2018) - Updated August 3, 2021
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Longitude |
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Great Whale River
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55.266178 |
-77.779794 |
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Coats River
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55.389333 |
-77.054444 |
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Denys River
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55.100694 |
-77.284083 |
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Kwakwatanikapistikw River
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55.293667 |
-77.542528 |
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Sasapimakwananistikw River
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55.256984 |
-77.810833 |
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Great Whale River Plume into Hudson Bay
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55.287333 |
-77.891333 |
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