Fire in the Arctic: The effect of wildfire across diverse aquatic ecosystems of the Northwest Territories

differentiate the effects of wildfire from other landscape variables that cumulatively impact aquatic ecosystem health. While wildfire had a clear effect on the chemical composition of pore waters, this effect was diminished at the stream outlet and at the landscape scale. Rather than having an overriding effect on water quality, wildfire appears to be one of many landscape variables that act in concert to determine water quality in the southern NWT.

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