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Toxaphene in the Great Lakes
Toxaphene is a major persistent organic contaminant in air, water and fish in the Great Lakes. The story of toxaphene in the Great Lakes, like that...
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Pesticides in the Great Lakes
Pesticides have been widely and heavily used in agriculture in the Great Lakes Basin (approximately 93000 tons were used in 1995 alone). Herbicides...
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls in the Great Lakes
This chapter reviews the scientific understanding of the concentrations, trends, and cycling of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Great...
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Polychlorinated Naphthalenes in the Great Lakes
This review examines the sources and occurrence of polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in the Great Lakes environment and summarizes current...
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Perfluorinated Compounds in the Great Lakes
Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAs) are released to the environment via their manufacturing processes, their use in commercial products, or indirectly via...
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Brominated Flame Retardants in the Great Lakes
Brominated flame retardants in the Great Lakes have not been as well studied as many of the polychlorinated pollutants, especially PCBs, but in the...
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Great Lakes
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are produced during the incomplete combustion of organic material. They can also be produced through...
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Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Great Lakes: An Overview
This chapter presents background information on the Great Lakes and summarizes the content of each chapter of this book.
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Invasion dynamics of New Zealand mud snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in the Laurentian Great Lakes
The New Zealand mud snail ( Potamopyrgus antipodarum ) is an invasive mollusk that was first reported in Lake Ontario, a Laurentian Great Lake, in...
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Characterization of Vernal Pools Across National Parks in the Great Lakes Region
Vernal pools are small, ephemeral wetlands that become inundated each spring and provide many ecosystem services, including providing critical...
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Relationships Between Muskrat Density and Avian and Anuran Richness in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
Wetlands in southern Ontario are at risk of degradation and alteration due to human activities. This is a concern because wetlands provide essential...
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Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans in the Great Lakes
The history of “dioxin”, PCDD/F, contamination in the Great Lakes is reviewed. Occurrence, geographical distribution, and temporal trends in air,...
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Island characteristics and species traits predict mammal diversity across islands of the great lakes of North America
Island biogeography theory states biodiversity increases with island size and decreases with distance from mainland source populations; however, the...
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Could quagga mussels impact offshore benthic community and surface sediment-bound nutrients in the Laurentian Great Lakes?
Dreissenids have greatly altered ecosystem function within the Great Lakes, but their effects on offshore surface sediments and infaunal communities...
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Ballast water management systems protect the Great Lakes from secondary spread of non-indigenous species
Approximately 65% of established non-indigenous species (NIS) identified in the Great Lakes–Saint Lawrence River basin (GLSLR) since 1959 were...
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Dreissena in the Great Lakes: what have we learned in 30 years of invasion
We summarized over 30 years of research on zebra and quagga mussels in the Laurentian Great Lakes and compared with data from European and North...
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Diversity of Chironomidae (Diptera) along a salinity gradient in lakes of the endorheic Great Lakes region of western Mongolia
The Great Lakes region of western Mongolia includes a diversity of lake ecosystems, from alpine freshwater to lowland, saline lakes, which...
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Support for a radiation of free-living flatworms in the African Great Lakes region and the description of five new Macrostomum species
BackgroundThe African Great Lakes have long been recognized as an excellent location to study speciation. Most famously, cichlid fishes have radiated...
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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...
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Lipid Profile of the Great Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Lakes with Different Degrees of Anthropogenic Pollution
AbstractThe relationship between the ecological conditions in water bodies experiencing varying degrees of anthropogenic impact and the composition...
