WARWICK VINCENT (Director)

Recent publications

Garneau, M.-È., Vincent, W.F., Terrado, R., Lovejoy, C., 2009. Importance of particle-associated bacterial heterotrophy in a coastal Arctic ecosystem. Journal of Marine Systems, 75: 185-197.

Vincent, W.F., Whyte, L.G., Greer, C.W., Laurion, I., Suttle, C.A., Lovejoy, C., Corbeil, J., Mueller, D.R., 2009. Arctic microbial ecosystems and impacts of climate change. Polar Science, doi:10.1016/j.polar.2009.05.004.

Bottos, E.M., Vincent, W.F., Greer, C.W., Whyte, L.G., 2008. Prokaryotic diversity of arctic ice shelf microbial mats. Environmental Microbiology, 10: 950-966.

Emmerton, C.A., Lesack, L., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Mackenzie River nutrient delivery to the Arctic Ocean and effects of the Mackenzie Delta during open water conditions. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22(GB1024, doi:10.1029/2006GB002856).

Emmerton, C.A., Lesack, L., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Nutrient and organic matter patterns across the Mackenzie River, estuary and shelf during the seasonal recession of sea-ice. Journal of Marine Systems, Special Issue, 74(3/4): 741-755.

Galand, P.E., Lovejoy, C., Pouliot, J., Garneau, M.-È., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Microbial community diversity and heterotrophic production in a coastal Arctic ecosystem: A stamukhi lake and its source waters. Limnology and Oceanography, 53: 813-823.

Galand, P.E., Lovejoy, C., Pouliot, J., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Heterogeneous archaeal communities in the particle-rich environment of an arctic shelf ecosystem. Journal of Marine Systems, Special Issue, 74(3/4): 774-782.

Garneau, M.-È., Roy, S., Lovejoy, C., Gratton, Y., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Seasonal dynamics of bacterial biomass and production in a coastal arctic ecosystem: Franklin Bay, western Canadian Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 113(doi:10.1029/2007JC004281).

Pouliot, J., Galand, P., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Separation of Archaea and ammonium monooxygenase A gene variants in two high Arctic lakes. Environmental Microbiology. (Sous presse)

Retamal, L., Bonilla, S.E., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Optical gradients and phytoplankton production in the Mackenzie River and the coastal Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology, 31(3): 363-379.

Terrado, R., Lovejoy, C., Massana, R., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Microbial food web responses to light and nutrients beneath the coastal Arctic Ocean sea during the winter spring transition. Journal of Marine Systems, Special Issue, 74(3/4): 964-977.

Tomkins, J.D., Lamoureux, S.F., Antoniades, D., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Sedimentary pellets as an ice cover proxy in a High Arctic ice-covered lake. Journal of Paleolimnology. (Sous presse)

Vallières, C., Retamal, L., Osburn, C., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Bacterial production and microbial food web structure in a large arctic river and the coastal Arctic Ocean. Journal of Marine Systems, Special Issue, 74(3/4): 756-773.

Van Hove, P., Vincent, W.F., Galand, P.E., Wilmotte, A., 2008. Abundance and diversity of picocyanobacteria in high arctic lakes and fjords. Algological Studies, 126: 209-227.

Veillette, J., Mueller, D.R., Antoniades, D., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Arctic epishelf lakes as sentinel ecosystems: past, present and future. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 113(G04014, doi:10.1029/2008JG000730).

Vincent, A., Mueller, D.R., Vincent, W.F., 2008. Simulated heat storage in a perennially ice-covered high Arctic lake: Sensitivity to climate change. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 113(C04036, doi:10.1029/2007JC004360).

Xie, H., Bélanger, S., Demers, S., Vincent, W.F., Papakyriakou, T.N., 2008. Photobiogeochemical cycling of carbon monoxide in the southeastern Beaufort Sea in spring and autumn. Limnology and Oceanography. (Sous presse)

Antoniades, D., Crawley, C., Douglas, M.S.V., Pienitz, R., Andersen, D., Doran, P.T., Hawes, I., Pollard, W., Vincent, W.F., 2007. Abrupt environmental change in Canada's northernmost lake inferred from diatom and fossil pigment stratigraphy. Geophysical Research Letters, 34(L18708): doi:10.1029/2007GL030947.

Fernandez-Valiente, E., Camacho, A., Rochera, C., Rico, E., Vincent, W.F., Quesada, A., 2007. Community structure and physiological characterization of microbial mats in Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 59(2): 377-385.

Landry, L., Vincent, W.F., Bernatchez, L., 2007. Parallel evolution of lake whitefish dwarf ecotypes in association with limnological features of their adaptive landscape. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20(3): 971-984.

Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., Bonilla, S.E., Roy, S., Martineau, M.-J., Terrado, R., Potvin, M., Massana, R., Pedros-Alio, C., 2007. Distribution, phylogeny, and growth of cold-adapted picoprasinophytes in Arctic seas. Journal of Phycology, 43(1): 78-89.

Rautio, M., Vincent, W.F., 2007. Isotopic analysis of the sources of organic carbon for zooplankton in shallow subarctic and arctic waters. Ecography, 30(1): 77-87.

Retamal, L., Vincent, W.F., Martineau, C., Osburn, C.L., 2007. Comparison of the optical properties of dissolved organic matter in two river-influenced coastal regions of the Canadian Arctic. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 72(1-2): 261-272.

Tomkins, J.D., Antoniades, D., Lamoureux, S.F., Vincent, W.F., 2007. A simple and effective method for preserving the sedimentÐwater interface of sediment cores during transport. Journal of Paleolimnology, (doi: 10.1007/s10933-007-9175-1).

Toro, M., Camacho, A., Rochera, C., Rico, E., Bañon, M., Fern‡ndez-Valiente, E., Marco, E., Justel, A., Avendaño, M.C., Ariosa, Y., Vincent, W.F., Quesada, A., 2007. Limnological characteristics of the freshwater ecosystems of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, in maritime Antarctica. Polar Biology, 30(5): 635-649.

Waleron, M., Waleron, K., Vincent, W.F., Wilmotte, A., 2007. Allochthonous inputs of riverine picocyanobacteria to coastal waters in the Arctic Ocean. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 59(2): 356-365.

Winkler, G., Martineau, C., Dodson, J.J., Vincent, W.F., Johnson, L.E., 2007. Trophic dynamics of two sympatric mysid species in an estuarine transition zone. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 332: 171-187.

Vincent, W.F., Rautio, M., Pienitz, R., 2007. Climate control of underwater UV exposure in polar and alpine aquatic ecosystems. Pages 227-249 in J.B. Orbaek, R. Kallenborn, I. Tombre, E. Hegseth, A. Falk-Petersen et A.H. Hoel (éd.). Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.

Barnard, C., Martineau, C., Frenette, J.-J., Dodson, J.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Trophic position of zebra mussel veligers and their use of dissolved organic carbon. Limnology and Oceanography, 51(3): 1473-1484.

Bélanger, S., Xie, H., Krotkov, N., Larouche, P., Vincent, W.F., Babin, M., 2006. Photomineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic matter in Arctic coastal waters from 1979 to 2003: Interannual variability and implications of climate change. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20(4): GB4005.

Galand, P.E., Lovejoy, C., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Remarkably diverse and contrasting archaeal communities in a large arctic river and the coastal Arctic Ocean. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 44: 115-126.

Garneau, M.-È., Vincent, W.F., Alonso-Saez, L., Gratton, Y., Lovejoy, C., 2006. Prokaryotic community structure and heterotrophic production in a river-influenced coastal arctic ecosystem. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 42(1): 27-40.

Mueller, D.R., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Microbial habitat dynamics and ablation control on the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf. Hydrological Processes, 20(4): 857-876.

Mueller, D.R, Vincent, W.F, Jeffries, M.O, 2006. Environmental gradients, fragmented habitats and microbiota of a northern ice shelf cryoecosystem, Ellesmere Island, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 38(4): 593-607.

Pienitz, R., Roberge, K., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Three hundred years of human-induced change in an urban lake: paleolimnological analysis of Lac Saint-Augustin, Québec City, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany, 84(2): 303-320.

Prowse, T.D., Wrona, F.J., Reist, J.D., Gibson, J.J., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Historical changes in Arctic freshwater ecosystems. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 339-346.

Prowse, T.D., Wrona, F.J., Reist, J.D., Gibson, J.J., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Climate change effects on hydroecology of Arctic freshwater ecosystems. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 347-358.

Prowse, T.D., Wrona, F.J., Reist, J.D., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. General features of the Arctic relevant to climate change in freshwater ecosystems. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 330-338.

Rautio, M., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Benthic and pelagic food resources for zooplankton in shallow high-latitude lakes and ponds. Freshwater Biology, 51: 1038-1052.

Van Hove, P., Belzile, C., Gibson, J.A.E., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Coupled landscape-lake evolution in High Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43(5): 533-546.

Villeneuve, V., Légaré, S., Painchaud, J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Dynamique et modélisation de l'oxygène dissous en rivière. Revue des Sciences de l'eau, 19(4): 259-274.

Wells, L.E., Cordray, M., Bowerman, S., Miller, L.A., Vincent, W.F., Deming, J.W., 2006. Archaea in particle-rich waters of the Beaufort Shelf and Franklin Bay, Canadian Arctic: Clues to an allochthonous origin? Limnology and Oceanography, 51(1): 47-59.

Wrona, F.J., Prowse, T.D., Reist, J.D., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Macdonald, R.W., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Effects of ultraviolet radiation and contaminant-related stressors on Arctic freshwater ecosystems. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 388-401.

Wrona, F.J., Prowse, T.D., Reist, J.D., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Climate impacts on Arctic freshwater ecosystems and fisheries: Background, rationale and approach of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 326-329.

Wrona, F.J., Prowse, T.D., Reist, J.D., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Climate change effects on aquatic biota, ecosystem structure and function. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 359-369.

Wrona, F.J., Prowse, T.D., Reist, J.D., Hobbie, J.E., Lévesque, L.M.J., Vincent, W.F., 2006. Key findings, science gaps and policy recommendations. Ambio Special Issue, 35(7): 411-415.

Bonilla, S.E., Villeneuve, V., Vincent, W.F., 2005. Benthic and planktonic algal communities in a High Arctic lake: Pigment structure and contrasting responses to nutrient enrichment. Journal of Phycology, 41(6): 1120-1130.

Mueller, D.R., Vincent, W.F., Bonilla, S.E., Laurion, I., 2005. Extremotrophs, extremophiles and broadband pigmentation strategies in a high arctic ice shelf ecosystem. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 53: 73-87.

Vincent, W.F., Mueller, D.R., Van Hove, P., Howard-Williams, C., 2004. Glacial periods on early Earth and implications for the evolution of life. Pages 481-501 in J. Seckbach (éd.). Origins: Genesis, Evolution and Diversity of Life. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Vincent, W.F., 2004. Microbial Ecosystems of Antarctica (paperback reprinting of Vincent 1988). Cambridge University Press. 318 p.

Frenette, J.-J., Vincent, W.F., 2003. Bio-optical variability in the littoral zone: local heterogeneity and implications for water quality monitoring. Pages 41-59 in Kumagai, M. & Vincent, W.F. (éd.). Freshwater Management - Global versus Local Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, Japon.

Kumagai, M., Vincent, W.F., Ishikawa, K., Aota, Y., 2003. Lessons from Lake Biwa and other Asian lakes: global and local perspectives. Pages 1-22 in Kumagai, M. & Vincent, W.F. (éd.). Freshwater Management - Global versus Local Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, Japon.

Pienitz, R., Vincent, W.F., 2003. Generic approaches towards water quality monitoring based on paleolimnology. Pages 61-82 in Kumagai, M. & Vincent, W.F. (éd.). Freshwater Management - Global versus Local Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, Japon.

Vincent, W.F., Belzile, C., 2003. Biological UV exposure in the polar oceans: Arctic-Antarctic comparisons. Pages 176-181 in A.H.L. Huiskes, W.W.C. Gieskes, J. Rozema, R.M.L. Schorno, S.M. van der Vies & W.J. Wolff (éd.). Antarctic Biology in a Global Context. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Vincent, W.F., Kumagai, M., 2003. Global and local approaches to freshwater management: the way ahead. Pages 217-228 in Kumagai, M. & Vincent, W.F. (éd.). Freshwater Management - Global versus Local Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, Japon.

Kumagai, M., Vincent, W.F., (éd.) 2003. Freshwater Management: Global versus Local Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, 233 p.

CEN Students

Bourget, Sébastien (M.Sc.). Towards assessing the risk of noxious cyanobacterial blooms: Observations from an urban water supply

Harding, Tommy (M.Sc.). Microbial content in the Canadian High Arctic annual snow cover

Rolland, Delphine (Ph.D.). 0

Veillette, Julie (Ph.D.). Aquatic indicators of environmental changes in the Canadian Arctic.

Watanabe, Shohei (Ph.D.). Impacts of climate change on the optical properties of aquatic ecosystems.

Recent CEN's theses

Garneau, Marie-Ève (Ph.D.) 2008. Structure et dynamique du réseau microbien dans des écosystèmes côtiers arctiques sous l'influence d'apport riverains. Université Laval.

Breton, Julie (M.Sc. - Co-supervision) 2007. Caractérisation limnologique et réactivité de la matière organique dissoute des mares de thermokarst. INRS-ETE.

Retamal, Leira (Ph.D.) 2007. Effet optique de la matière organique dissoute colorée sur la production primaire dans des systèmes d'estuaires nordiques. Qualité, quantité et changements climatiques. Université Laval.

Vallières, Catherine (M.Sc.) 2007. Production bactérienne et structure du réseau alimentaire microbien dans le fleuve Mackenzie et l'océan Arctique côtier. Université Laval.

Roy, Sébastien (M.Sc.) 2006. Écologie hivernale du réseau alimentaire microbien dans le Haut Arctique canadien, Baie de Franklin. Université Laval.

Mueller, Derek (Ph.D.) 2005. Structure et dynamique des cryo-écosystèmes : Plates-formes de glace nordiques. Université Laval.

Van Hove, Patrick (Ph.D.) 2005. Limnologie du nord de l'ïle d'Ellesmere : Réponse et sensibilité aux changements de climat dans les environnements extrêmes. Université Laval.

Other theses

Ishikawa, Kanako (Ph.D. - Co-supervision) 2002. Ecology of Microcystis blooms in Lake Biwa, Japan.

Martineau, Christine (M.Sc.) 2003. Influence des moules zebrées sur la chaine alimentaire dans le fleuve St-Laurent. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

Research Chair

Aquatic Ecosystem Studies

IPY (International Polar Year) Project

MERGE - Arctic Microbial Ecosystems