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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Lake Erie"”.
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Migratory Stopover of Songbirds in the Western Lake Erie Basin
… migrant density during stopover in the Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) of Ohio was influenced by local- and broad-scale habitat variables, specifically: patch vegetation composition and structure, patch size and isolation, patch distance from the Lake Erie shoreline, patch distance from a river …
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REMOTE SENSING OF WATER QUALITY IN LAKE ERIE USING MODIS IMAGERY DATA
<p>The Great Lakes, as the largest fresh surface water system on earth, greatly affects the quality of life and many aspects of the natural environment from weather and climate to wildlife and habitat. Lake Erie was declared as the first Great Lake that demonstrated a lake-wide eutrophic imbalance …
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A study of the effect of Lake Erie on deep convective systems
This study examines the effect that Lake Erie, and its corresponding marine boundary layer (MBL), have on pre-existing convective storms which propagate over the water surface. To do this, data collected from the 2001-2007 period was analyzed to identify trends in storm behavior over Lake Erie …
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Spatial and temporal population dynamics of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Erie
Yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in Lake Erie support valuable commercial and recreational fisheries critical to the local economy and society. The study of yellow perch's temporal and spatial population dynamics is important for both stock assessment and fisheries management. I explore the spatial …
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Effects of Low Bioavailable Nitrogen and Phosphorus on Cyanobacteria Dynamics in Eutrophic Lake Erie
… and abundance of phytoplankton in freshwater lakes has long been attributed to the concentration of phosphorus (P), and this idea of P-limitation has been a paradigm accepted by limnologists. Hence, lake managers have relied on the strategy of reducing P to restore water quality of eutrophic …
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Patterns in the Variation of CDOM Spectral Slopes in the Western Lake Erie Basin
<p>In recent decades, Western Basin of Lake Erie has been beset by various episodes of dense and sometimes harmful algal blooms. The federal government has mandated that jurisdictions have plans in place to predict and respond to harmful algal concentration explosions. In very large lakes like Lake …
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Investigating ecosystem-level effects of gillnet bycatch in Lake Erie: implications for commercial fisheries management
Lake Erie supports one of the world's largest freshwater commercial fisheries. Bycatch has become a concern in current fisheries management. This study focused on four species in Lake Erie that include two major commercial and recreational species, walleye (Sander vitreus) and yellow perch (Perca …
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Lake Erie coastal marsh aquatic invertebrate community structure across habitats dominated by two different emergent macrophytes
… locations. Sampling took place at Lake Erie Metropark in southeast Michigan during the summer of 2013. Invertebrates were collected using Hester-Dendy samplers and identified in the laboratory. Invertebrates were assessed using the Shannon-Wiener Index, taxon richness, and abundance …
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Characteristics of the Unionid Community and Habitat in a Power Plant Thermal Plume in Western Lake Erie
… unionids are endangered in the Laurentian Great Lakes due to habitat degradation and biofouling by dreissenids. However, a robust community was discovered living within the thermal discharge of a power plant at Oregon, Ohio, on the south shore of Lake Erie. Chapter 1 describes comparisons of the …
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Pathological characterization of natural Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola infection in wild-caught Lake Erie watersnakes: A standardized approach to documentation of disease
… lesions of SFD in a cohort of wild-caught Lake Erie water snakes, 2) as the number of survey sections affected by SFD increases, so too will the overall cutaneous severity score, 3) histopathological examination will allow for detection of subclinical lesions that are not associated with …
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The influence of spatiotemporal variation in food web models
… of temporal and spatial trends in a large lake ecosystem can improve our understanding of the mechanisms and drivers of spatial and temporal variation in food web structure and function. Lake Erie, the smallest of the Laurentian Great Lakes by volume, is divided into three bathymetrically …
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A Mathematical Model of a Denitrification Metabolic Network in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes in North America, has witnessed recurrent summertime low oxygen dead zones for decades. This is a yearly phenomenon that causes microbial production of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide from denitrification. Complete denitrification is a microbial process of …
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Climate Change in Buffalo, NY
… New York, located along the eastern shore of Lake Erie. My hypotheses are that average winter temperatures and snowfall should be increasing, Lake Erie should be freezing at a later date, and Lake Erie’s ice cover should affect snowfall amounts. The warmer temperatures would lead to Lake …
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Effect of Increased Temperature and Nitrogen on the Non-N-fixing vs. N-fixing Cyanobacteria in Western Lake Erie: Implications for Competition and Climate Change
… and most-important water bodies, including Lake Erie in North America. HABs are the result of complex and synergistic environmental factors, though N (nitrogen) or P eutrophication is a leading cause of HABs. With global mean temperatures expected to increase an 2–5¿¿C by 2100, cyanoHABs are …
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The Lake is History: Photographic Archives and the Black Atlantic in Essex County
This dissertation situates Lake Erie and its environs as part of the Black Atlantic. Specifically, it maps the complex portrait of those environs as they emerge within the photographic archive of the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds. This dissertation follows the flow of vernacular photographs across Lake …
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