Application of the Wetland Fish Index to northern Great Lakes marshes with an emphasis on Georgian Bay coastal wetlands
The wetland fish index (WFI), a published indicator of wetland condition that ranks wet- lands based on tolerance of fish species to degraded water-quality conditions, had been developed with data from 40 wetlands located exclusively in the southern portion of the Great Lakes
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Forcasting the response of coastal wetlands to declining water levels and environmental disturbances in the Great Lakes
The overall purpose of this study was to examine the impact of increasing human-induced and natural stresses on the distribution of aquatic vegetation and fish along the Great Lakes shoreline.
The first part of the dissertation proposes a predictive model to examine the effect
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Impact of urbanization on the water quality, fish habitat, and fish community of a Lake Ontario marsh, Frenchman’s Bay
Frenchman’s Bay is a barrier beach wetland with a highly urbanized watershed located east of Toronto, along the north shore of Lake Ontario. Degradation of water quality has reduced the historically large stand of emergent vegetation to fringe emergent beds to the north and
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Influence of shoreline features on fish distribution in the Laurentian Great Lakes
In this paper, we used assembled fish distributions (over 9500 field observations) and correlated them with 11 categories of the Great Lakes shoreline (i.e., bedrock, bluff, coarse beach, sandy beach – dune, sandy–silty bank, clay bank, low riverine – coastal plain,
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