Use and development of the wetland macrophyte index to detect water quality impairment in fish habitat of Great Lakes coastal marshes

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 33, Issue SPEC. ISS. 3, 2007, Pages 172-197

  Croft, Melanie V ^a   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coastal wetlands; Environmental index; Great Lakes; Macrophyte; Water quality; Wetland macrophyte index

Indexed keywords

FISH; LAKES; OCEAN HABITATS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WATER QUALITY; AQUACULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MEATS; PARKS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION;

COASTAL WETLANDS; ENVIRONMENTAL INDEX; GREAT LAKES; MACROPHYTES; WETLAND MACROPHYTE INDEX; AQUATIC PLANTS; BEFORE AND AFTER; CANADIAN NATIONALS; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; COASTAL MARSH; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; ECOLOGICAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY; EXOTIC SPECIES; FISH HABITAT; HISTORICAL DATA; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; MACROPHYTE; MARINE PARK; NATIONAL PARKS; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PLANT SPECIES; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; REMEDIAL ACTIONS; TAXONOMIC COMPOSITION; WATER QUALITY GRADIENTS; WATER QUALITY IMPAIRMENT; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WETLAND ECOSYSTEM;

WETLANDS;

ACTION PLAN; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WETLAND; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; FISH; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVERTEBRATE; MACROPHYTE; MARSH; POPULATION DECLINE; WATER QUALITY; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; TAXONOMY; WETLAND;

CANADA; COOTES PARADISE MARSH; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; GREEN BAY; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; STURGEON BAY; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN; FATHOM FIVE NATIONAL MARINE PARK; POINT PELEE NATIONAL PARK;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 41749116133     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3394/0380-1330(2007)33[172:UADOTW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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