Jordan Musetta-Lambert

Independent Researcher · Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division

Water quality is of significant concern and ultimately critical to every Canadian’s quality of life and security. Canada has diverse and vast landscapes and stressors that impact various waterbodies differentially, with influencing factors including contaminant and nutrient loads from human activity (mining effluent, wastewater, agricultural runoff...

The diet of fish from Arctic tundra streams was analyzed to compare the efficacy of (1) morphological gut content analysis, (2) DNA metabarcoding, and (3) stable isotope analysis (SIA). Although pairing of morphological and stable isotope methods has become common practice, advances in DNA metabarcoding identification have the potential to improve...

This study is a meta-analysis of recent global research articles on hydrogeochemical modelling of permafrost regions to determine trends and consensus on research gaps and future research directions. The hydrogeochemical response of permafrost to climate change remains challenging to estimate and forecast despite evidence of large-scale impacts on...

ARCTIC-BIODIVER is a multidisciplinary project among collaborative research groups of Europe and North America. It aims to facilitate baseline information on freshwater biodiversity as well as development of biodiversity scenarios at national and circumpolar scales. In a multi-site space-for-time field study in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions we inve...

ARCTIC-BIODIVER is a large and multidisciplinary collaboration among research groups of Europe and North America that aims to facilitate development of biodiversity scenarios at national and circumpolar scales. In this poster, we present the extent and geographic distribution of a dataset of >100 lakes and streams covering broad latitudinal and eco...

Climate change is one of the most important threats to aquatic biodiversity worldwide, but especially in Arctic freshwaters, where it is expected to cause changes in mean water temperatures, catchment properties and water quality. Climate-driven changes in inputs of nutrients and organic matter from the catchment are expected to affect community c...

Assessments of diversity in Arctic freshwaters generally focus on structural diversity, i.e., the number and composition of taxa at local or regional scales. However, changes in community structure may not result in alterations to ecosystem function if there is strong niche overlap among taxa, leading to functional redundancy. In Arctic freshwaters...

Lake Winnipeg has undergone rapid eutrophication over the last several decades with a large portion of the associated nutrient loads delivered via the Red River. Consequently, subcatchments of the Red River Valley (RRV) are priorities for nutrient management, an aim that requires identification of key nutrient sources to stream food webs. We identi...

• We investigated how compositional differences in riparian leaf litter derived from burned and undisturbed forests influenced leaf breakdown and macroinvertebrate communities using experimental mixed‐species leaf packs in boreal headwater streams. Leaf pack mixtures simulating leaf litter from dominant riparian woody‐stem species in burned and und...

Forested headwater streams are strongly connected to their surrounding riparian areas via the transfer of energy subsidies that underpin instream food webs and, therefore, are highly sensitive to riparian disturbances that influence allochthonous inputs. We compared terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates found in drift across headwater streams in bo...

Much of Canada’s industrial sector is driven by natural resources and relies heavily on provisioning services supplied by the boreal zone. However, the sometimes intensive processes used by resource-based industries and their associated infrastructure have significantly altered the region, creating concerns over the future socio-ecological health o...

Ecosystem-level processes are increasingly used by researchers and managers as indicators of ecological integrity for bioassessment, particularly in streams. However, processes like litter breakdown integrate multiple mechanistic pathways, which can vary differentially even under natural, unim-pacted conditions. In particular, weather-driven hydrol...

Applying the emerging paradigm of emulation of natural disturbances (END) to forest management requires understanding of how the riparian-aquatic interface responds to natural forest disturbances. A comparison of riparian forest condition and stream function was conducted across boreal, headwater streams with wildfire, harvest with minimum 30 m rip...

This is the first study of the ecological significance of rocky breakwaters as habitat for intertidal biota in marine environments that freeze in winter. Percent cover of intertidal seaweeds and invertebrates was quantified on exposed (high wave action and winter ice scour) and sheltered sides of 18 breakwaters (>5 yr old) and compared with 18 natu...