TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jones, Benjamin M.
A1  - Arp, Christopher D.
A1  - Whitman, Matthew S.
A1  - Nigro, Debora
A1  - Nitze, Ingmar
A1  - Beaver, John
A1  - Gadeke, Anne
A1  - Zuck, Callie
A1  - Liljedahl, Anna
A1  - Daanen, Ronald
A1  - Torvinen, Eric
A1  - Fritz, Stacey
A1  - Grosse, Guido
T1  - A lake-centric geospatial database to guide research and inform management decisions in an Arctic watershed in northern Alaska experiencing climate and land-use changes
T2  - AMBIO
N2  - Lakes are dominant and diverse landscape features in the Arctic, but conventional land cover classification schemes typically map them as a single uniform class. Here, we present a detailed lake-centric geospatial database for an Arctic watershed in northern Alaska. We developed a GIS dataset consisting of 4362 lakes that provides information on lake morphometry, hydrologic connectivity, surface area dynamics, surrounding terrestrial ecotypes, and other important conditions describing Arctic lakes. Analyzing the geospatial database relative to fish and bird survey data shows relations to lake depth and hydrologic connectivity, which are being used to guide research and aid in the management of aquatic resources in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Further development of similar geospatial databases is needed to better understand and plan for the impacts of ongoing climate and land-use changes occurring across lake-rich landscapes in the Arctic.
KW  - Arctic
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - GIS
KW  - Lakes
KW  - Land-use change
KW  - Watershed
Y1  - 2017
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/52189
SN  - 0044-7447
SN  - 1654-7209
VL  - 46
SP  - 769
EP  - 786
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht
ER  -