We conducted a six-week field experiment under low food conditions typical of Canadian Shield lakes, using four calcium concentrations (0.6 mg/L, 1.0 mg/L, 1.4 mg/L, and 2.4 mg/L) and zooplankton ...

Boreal Shield lakes are widespread across the Boreal Shield, the largest of the Canadian ecozones, which extends across more than 20 per cent of Canada's land mass. Similar lakes are found in ...

The Boreal Shield is the the largest of Canada’s 15 terrestrial ecozones, where boreal forests overlap the Canadian Shield. It stretches almost 4,000 kilometres from Newfoundland to Alberta.

Scientists say they have found lakes in Canada that are losing some of the calcium dissolved in their waters, a condition they're likening to an aquatic version of osteoporosis. The drop in ...

The Canadian Shield only came into terminological being in the 1880s. Its name combines two ideas. The first was colonial politician Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s vision, articulated in 1860, of “one great ...