Protist enumerations from lakes and fiords along the northern coastline of Ellesmere Island (Ward Hunt Island observatory)

This dataset present phytoplankton and other protist enumerations of Lake A, Lake B, Lake C1, Lake C2, Ward Hunt Lake and Milne Fiord at several depths in 2007 and 2008. The objective of this data was to evaluate the abundance and community composition of the phytoplankton by microscopy. This dataset is also useful to assess the implications for ecosystem structure and function of the increasingly observed loss of perennial lake ice.