Glacially mediated impacts of climate warming on alpine lakes of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Abstract

Climate warming is having a more pronounced impact ontemperature change in alpine and polar regions than on aglobal scale (Beniston 2006, Lemke et al. 2007). For theCordillera region of North America, climate models predictthat warming will increase with elevation, reaching its maxi-mum at mid-northern latitudes (Bradley et al. 2004). Den-drochronological models have already shown that summertemperatures in the Canadian Rockies were anomalouslywarm during the 20