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Influences of seasonality and habitat quality on Great Lakes coastal wetland fish community composition and diets
Great Lakes coastal wetlands (GLCW) have been severely degraded by anthropogenic activity over the last several decades despite their critical role in fish production. Many Great Lakes fish species use coastal...
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Open AccessA Basin-Wide Survey of Coastal Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes: Development and Comparison of Water Quality Indices
Coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes are vital habitats for biota of ecological and economic importance. These habitats are susceptible to water quality impairments driven by runoff from the landscap...
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Open AccessLeveraging a Landscape-Level Monitoring and Assessment Program for Develo** Resilient Shorelines throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes
Traditionally, ecosystem monitoring, conservation, and restoration have been conducted in a piecemeal manner at the local scale without regional landscape context. However, scientifically driven conservation a...
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Relationships between the distribution and abundance of the invasive faucet snail (Bithynia tentaculata) and environmental factors in Laurentian Great Lakes coastal wetlands
The faucet snail (Bithynia tentaculata) was introduced to the Great Lakes region in the late 1800s. Faucet snails alter native community dynamics and are an intermediate host for multiple trematode parasites that...
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Open AccessAn expanded fish-based index of biotic integrity for Great Lakes coastal wetlands
Biotic indicators are useful for assessing ecosystem health because the structure of resident communities generally reflects abiotic conditions integrated over time. We used fish data collected over 5 years fo...
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Open AccessStandardized Measures of Coastal Wetland Condition: Implementation at a Laurentian Great Lakes Basin-Wide Scale
Since European settlement, over 50 % of coastal wetlands have been lost in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin, causing growing concern and increased monitoring by government agencies. For over a decade, monitori...
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Species turnover drives β-diversity patterns across multiple spatial and temporal scales in Great Lake Coastal Wetland Communities
β dissimilarity indices have described community variation occurring from unique structuring processes: species turnover and nestedness. However, the importance of scale definition remain...
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Invertebrates in Great Lakes Marshes
Marshes of the Laurentian Great Lakes are important habitats for fish, amphibians, reptiles, wading birds, and waterfowl, which all utilize invertebrates for food. Surveys have identified over 300 macroinverte...
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Dispersal Mode and Ability Affect the Spatial Turnover of a Wetland Macroinvertebrate Metacommunity
Dispersal limitation is an important element of metacommunity dynamics, but measuring dispersal is complicated because many communities are composed of species that vary in dispersal strategy and ability We ex...
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Influence of water-level fluctuation duration and magnitude on sediment–water nutrient exchange in coastal wetlands
This study examined the influence of water-level fluctuation (WLF) on sediment–water nutrient exchange in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Water levels in the Laurentian Great Lakes have been below the long-term m...
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Impacts of Agricultural Drainage Outlets on Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
Great Lakes coastal wetlands are subject to many types of anthropogenic disturbances. Agricultural non-point source pollution is a major contributor to the eutrophication of coastal aquatic systems and agricul...
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Chemical and physical factors associated with yellow perch abundance in Great Lakes coastal wetlands: patterns within and among wetland types
Great Lakes coastal wetlands provide important spawning and nursery habitat as well as abundant food resources for yellow perch (Perca flavescens). We examined multiple years of fyke-net data from wetlands along ...
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Great Lakes coastal wetland habitat use by seven turtle species: influences of wetland type, vegetation, and abiotic conditions
Great Lakes coastal wetlands are important habitats for turtles but few studies have looked at factors driving community structure in these systems. We evaluated the effects of wetland type, vegetation, and ab...
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Macroinvertebrate community composition in relation to anthropogenic disturbance, vegetation, and organic sediment depth in four Lake Michigan drowned river-mouth wetlands
Lake Michigan drowned river-mouth wetlands have a unique geomorphology and hydrology. Macroinvertebrate communities in these systems respond to multiple biotic and abiotic factors that are not well understood....
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Influence of cattle grazing and pasture land use on macroinvertebrate communities in freshwater wetlands
Responses of wetland abiotic variables and aquatic invertebrate community structure to cattle stocking density, pasture type, and dominant vegetation were evaluated in subtropical pastures. Cattle were stocked...
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Hydrologic variability and the application of Index of Biotic Integrity metrics to wetlands: A great lakes evaluation
Interest by land-management and regulatory agencies in using biological indicators to detect wetland degradation, coupled with ongoing use of this approach to assess water quality in streams, led to the desire...
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The impact of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields on stream periphyton: an eleven-year study
Potential effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields on periphyton were studied from 1983 to 1993 using a Before, After, Control and Impact design. The study was conducted at two sites on ...
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Development of a preliminary invertebrate index of biotic integrity for Lake Huron coastal wetlands
The biota of aquatic systems are integrators of overall habitat quality, revealing both episodic as well as cumulative disturbance, and therefore are able to serve as natural monitors of the systems they inhab...
