The relative importance of road density and physical watershed features in determining coastal marsh water quality in Georgian Bay
We used a GIS-based approach to examine the influence of road density and physical watershed features (watershed size, wetland cover, and bedrock type) on water quality in coastal marshes of Georgian Bay, Ontario. We created a GIS that included landscape information and water
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Coastal wetlands of Fathom Five National Marine Park: Biodiversity Values and Threats
Although the coast of Fathom Five National Marine Park (FFNMP) is mostly exposed and rocky, coastal wetlands have established in the few protected bays within the park. In the regional context, these coastal wetlands are highly productive and biologically rich areas. A
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Wetlands Status and Trends – for Coastal Wetlands
An estimate of current coastal wetlands along the shores of the southern Great Lakes (Ontario and Erie) and their connecting channels (St. Clair, Niagara, Detroit, St. Lawrence) is over 70,000 ha (Ingram et al. 2005). However, coastal wetland losses have been severe since
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Testing the transferability of a marsh-inundation model across two landscapes
The effect of water-level (WL) fluctuations on both the structure and functioning of coastal marshes is well documented, and in the past, scientists have demonstrated this by relating historical changes in the areal cover of emergent vegetation (EM) of a particular site to
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Use and development of the Wetland Macrophyte Index to detect water quality impairment in fish habitat of Great Lakes coastal marshes
Indices have been developed with invertebrates, fish, and water quality parameters to detect the impact of human disturbance on coastal wetlands, but a macrophyte index of fish habitat for the Great Lakes does not currently exist. Because wetland macrophytes are directly
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