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Valerie J. Brady
Coastal Sciences
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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 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...
