New paper out: Diversity of Lakes and Ponds in the Forest-Tundra Ecozone: From Limnicity to Limnodiversity.

Lead by Pedro Freitas, this paper presents a detailed survey of the lakes and ponds of western Nunavik. The amazing lake colours have been a key focus of our curiosity and driven our research since we first visited Nunavik in 2015. Building on the field experience and data, and on the analysis of imagery from different satellites, Pedro mapped 335,281 water bodies (!) and classified their colour. The high resolution of the dataset allowed to identify the large diversity in colours and to propose the concept of limnodiversity - the spatial diversity of lake and pond colours. These are closely related to lake genesis and dynamics, with high limnodiversity especially in degrading permafrost environments associated to palsas and lithalsas.

Freitas, P., Vieira, Martins, D., Canário, J. Pina, P., Heim, B., Juhls, B. Couture, R-M., Vincent, W.F. 2024. Diversity of Lakes and Ponds in the Forest-Tundra Ecozone: From Limnicity to Limnodiversity. GIScience & Remote Sensing 61,: 2427309. https://lnkd.in/dyd8qP67