Forty Years of Northern Natural Science

Abstract

ABSTRACT. In a review of some of the research activities in the North over the past 40 years, with special reference to the arctic areas of Canada and Alaska, we find that most of the objectives outlined in the early 1950s have been achieved. We now know much more about the plants, terrestrial arthropods, freshwater ecology, marine ecology and terrestrial vertebrates. We have at least a conceptual view of how the different organisms fit together in the natural arctic ecosystem. The ecosystems appear to be rather simple and relatively stable, but do not have unlimited resilience.

Life history of the northern mayfly Baetis bundyae in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, with updates to the list of mayflies of Nunavut

“…Little is known about the insect fauna of the Canadian north, mainly because of difficulty in access and sampling in far northern Canada (Scudder 1987;Danks et al 1997;Currie et al 2000). This is especially true for the central and eastern portions that make up the newly formed territory of Nunavut, and for nonbiting aquatic insects such as mayflies (Ephemeroptera).…”