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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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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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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