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State of Lake Superior /

Lake Superior was saved from the extremes felt elsewhere because it is the top of the drainage landscape. Superior offered the prospects of greatest success because it was, in general, least altered. Many decades later, Superior serves as the best example of success in recovering from environmental...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Munawar, M. (Editor ), Munawar, I. F. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canada : Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society, 2009.
Colección:Ecovision world monograph series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / H.A Regier
  • Preface / J.F. Kitchell
  • Editorial / M. Munawar and I.F. Munawar
  • Dedication
  • Physical and chemical regimes
  • An overview of the characteristics of Lake Superior meteorology, hydrology and physical limnology / W. Schertzer, Y.R. Rao
  • Contemporary Lake Superior ice cover climatology / R.A. Assel
  • The effects of isostatic rebound and lake level on Lake Superior revealed through GIS : visualizing landscape evolution / K.P. Norton
  • Nutrient cycling in Lake Superior : a Retrospective and Update / N.R. Urban
  • Carbon cycling in Lake Superior : a regional and ecosystem perspective / N.R. Urban
  • Lake Superior mining and the proposed mercury zero-discharge region / W.C. Kerfoot, J. Jeong, J.A. Robbins
  • Nutrient variability in Lake Superior coastal wetlands : the role of land use and hydrology / J.A. Morrice, A.S. Trebitz, J.R. Kelly, A.M. Cotter, M.L. Knuth
  • Modeling contaminant behaviour in Lake Superior : a comparison of PCBs, PBDEs and mercury / M.D. Rowe, J.A. Perlinger, N.R. Urban
  • Food web dynamics.
  • The base of the food web at the top of the Great Lakes : structure and function of the microbial food web of Lake Superior / M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar, M. Fitzpatrick, H. Niblock, J. Lorimer
  • Phytoplankton communities of Lake Superior, 2001 : changing species composition and biodiversity of a pristine ecosystem / I.F. Munawar, M. Munawar
  • Metacommunity perspective on zooplanktonic communities in Lake Superior / W.C. Kerfoot, J.W. Budd, J.H. Churchill, C. Chen
  • Trends in spring crustacean zooplankton communities of Lake Superior : Evidence of planktivory by lake herring / O.T. Gorman, L.M. Evrard, M.H. Hoff, J.H. Selgeby
  • Spatial patterns of water quality and plankton from high-resolution continuous in situ sensing along a 537-km nearshore transect of western
  • Lake Superior, 2004 / P.M. Yurista, J.R. Kelly
  • Status of benthic macroinvertebrates in southern nearshore Lake Superior, 1994-2003 / J. Scharold, S.J. Lozano, T.D. Corry
  • Changes in the Lake Superior fish community during 1978-2003 : chronicling the recovery of a native fauna / O.T. Gorman, M.H. Hoff
  • Western Lake Superior benthic fish community structure during the summers of 1972-1995 / M.H. Hoff
  • Community structure and trends in abundance of breeding birds in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin / M.H. Hoff, J. Van Stappen
  • Colonial nesting waterbirds in the Canadian and U.S. waters of Lake Superior : patterns in colony distribution and breeding population numbers (1976-2000) / R.D. Morris, D.V.C. Weseloh, C. Pekarik
  • Trophic linkages in the Lake Superior food web : a synthesis of empirical and modelling studies 1970-2003 / T.B. Johnson
  • Fish fauna of Lake Superior : past, present and future / N.E. Mandrak.