Application of the index of marsh bird community integrity to coastal wetlands of Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario, Canada

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1482-1486

  Smith Cartwright, Lyndsay A ^a   Chow Fraser, Patricia ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Indicator; Land use; Laurentian Great Lakes; Water quality; Wetland birds; Wetland vegetation

Indexed keywords

BIRD COMMUNITIES; COASTAL MARSH; COASTAL WETLANDS; ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GREAT LAKES; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; INDICATOR; LAKE ONTARIO; LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SPECIES RANGES; TAXONOMIC GROUPS; WETLAND BIRDS; WETLAND VEGETATION;

BIRDS; LAND USE; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

LAKES;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; COASTAL WETLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVERTEBRATE; LAND USE CHANGE; MARSH; MONOCOTYLEDON; TAXONOMY; WATER QUALITY; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; GEORGIAN BAY; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; SCHOENOPLECTUS; TYPHA;

EID: 79955850929     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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