A 4-minute thesis summary presented by W. Garfield Weston Fellow, Alyssa Murdoch (York University), during the Peter A. Larkin Award Ceremony at AFS 2020. 

Northern regions are warming at rates two to three times global levels and there is an urgent need to document, predict, and mitigate the resulting impacts on northern environments and people before it is too late. In addition, mounting local human development pressures (e.g., new roads, oil and gas, forestry) may combine and interact with co-occurring climate change pressures, leading to unexpected impacts on northern biodiversity. Watch this four-minute overview of my PhD research to discover how northern fish, and the people that depend on them, may be influenced by rapid cumulative environmental changes.