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- Title
Hydrologic variability and the application of Index of Biotic Integrity metrics to wetlands: a Great Lakes evaluation.
- Authors
WILCOX, DOUGLAS A.; MEEKER, JAMES E.; HUDSON, PATRICK L.; ARMITAGE, BRIAN J.; BLACK, M. GLEN; UZARSKI, DONALD G.
- Abstract
Studies barrier beach wetlands in western Lake Superior, drowned-river-mouth wetlands along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, and open shoreline wetlands in Saginaw Bay of Lake Huron. Results of sampling suggesting that the metrics proposed as potential components of an Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI) for barrier beach wetlands of Lake Superior held promise; Results of sampling with respect to Lake Michigan drowned-river-mouth wetlands and Lake Huron open embayment wetlands; Conclusion that an IBI for use in Great Lakes wetlands would not be valid unless separate scoring ranges were derived for each of several sequences of water-level histories; Evaluation of conclusions with respect to hydrologic variability suggesting that after segregation of wetland types by geographic, geomorphic, and hydrologic features, a functional IBI may be possible for wetlands with relatively stable hydrology.
- Subjects
LAKE Huron (Mich. &; Ont.); LAKE Michigan; LAKE Superior; GREAT Lakes (North America); WETLANDS; BIOINDICATORS; BIOLOGICAL monitoring; HYDROLOGY; WATER levels
- Publication
Wetlands, 2002, Vol 22, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0277-5212
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0588:HVATAO]2.0.CO;2