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Walleye and yellow perch resource use in large lakes invaded by spiny water fleas and zebra mussels
Walleye (Sander vitreus; WAE) and yellow perch (Perca flavescens; YEP; collectively percids) are freshwater fishes threatened by multiple stressors, including aquatic invasive species. Zebra mussels (Dreissena po...
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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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Trophic complexity of small fish in nearshore food webs
Small nearshore fishes are an important part of lacustrine and functional diversity and link pelagic and benthic habitats by serving as prey for larger nearshore and offshore fishes. However, the trophic compl...
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Macroinvertebrate and Fish Community Metrics: Confounding Effects and Consistency over Time
Macroinvertebrate and fish metrics are an essential tool in freshwater biomonitoring. Yet, many well-known stream metrics do not perform well as indicators of anthropogenic stress in lakes and wetlands, and th...
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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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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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Watershed Land Use and Local Habitat: Implications for Habitat Assessment
Our understanding of anthropogenic stressor effects on wetland biota and ecosystem processes would benefit from better defined relationships between landscape and local stressors. We assessed the connection be...
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Integrated Measures of Anthropogenic Stress in the U.S. Great Lakes Basin
Integrated, quantitative expressions of anthropogenic stress over large geographic regions can be valuable tools in environmental research and management. Despite the fundamental appeal of a regional approach,...
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Environmentally stratified sampling design for the development of Great Lakes environmental indicators
Understanding the relationship between human disturbance and ecological response is essential to the process of indicator development. For large-scale observational studies, sites should be selected across gra...
