Keller Lake is a surface water body in the

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of Canada. It is located south of the Great Bear Lake and north of Fort Simpson, at an elevation of . The lake has a triangular shape, a surface area of , and it empties through the Johnny Hoe River into the Great Bear Lake. There is a

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population in Keller Lake. On some of the plains surrounding Keller Lake,

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s have formed, the early successional stage to which often consists of pioneer

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.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

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* Bryan Robert Davies and Keith F. Walker. 1986. ''The Ecology of River Systems'', Published by Springer, , , 793 pages * C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Black Spruce: Picea mariana'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg
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