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Key environmental problems in the Great Lakes region are (i) reductions of the water levels from withdrawals and human-caused climate change; (ii) pollution from point-source, nonpoint-source, and atmospheric sources; (iii) the introduction of invasive species; and (iv) degradation of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (Smith et al. 2015).
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Bockheim, J.G. (2021). Protection of Great Lakes Soils. In: Soils of the Laurentian Great Lakes, USA and Canada. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52425-8_13
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