Chronicles of hypoxia: Time-series buoy observations reveal annually recurring seasonal basin-wide hypoxia in Muskegon Lake – A Great Lakes estuary

Biddanda, Bopaiah A.; Weinke, Anthony D.; Kendall, Scott T.; Gereaux, Leon C.; Holcomb, Thomas; Snider, Michael J.; Dila, Deborah K.; Long, Stephen A.; VandenBerg, Chris; Knapp, Katie Lynn; Koopmans, Dirk; Thompson, Kurt; Vail, Janet H.; Ogdahl, Mary E.; Liu, Qianqian; Johengen, Thomas H.; Anderson, Eric J.; Ruberg, Steven A.

doi:10.1016/j.jglr.2017.12.008

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“…This timing of the migration may reflect when environmental conditions in deep-DRM habitats match the conditions of Lake Michigan (Altenritter et al, 2013;Biddanda et al, 2018). For instance, dissolved oxygen concentrations often become lower in the deepest parts of DRMs during summer when the water is thermally stratified ( Figure S3; see Altenritter et al, 2013;Biddanda et al, 2018). Future studies implementing telemetry (Hayden et al, 2014) could elucidate the timing and duration of DRM use by Lake Michigan yellow perch, which may facilitate accounting for the harvest of Lake Michigan fish in DRMs.…”

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Yellow perch genetic structure and habitat use among connected habitats in eastern Lake Michigan

Chorak

Ruetz

Thum

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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Maintenance of genetic and phenotypic diversity is widely recognized as an important conservation priority, yet managers often lack basic information about spatial patterns of population structure and its relationship with habitat heterogeneity and species movement within it. To address this knowledge gap, we focused on the economically and ecologically prominent yellow perch (Perca flavescens). In the Lake Michigan basin, yellow perch reside in nearshore Lake Michigan, including drowned river mouths (DRMs)—protected, lake‐like habitats that link tributaries to Lake Michigan. The goal of this study was to examine the extent that population structure is associated with Great Lakes connected habitats (i.e., DRMs) in a mobile fish species using yellow perch as a model. Specifically, we tested whether DRMs and eastern Lake Michigan constitute distinct genetic stocks of yellow perch, and if so, whether those stocks migrate between the two connected habitats throughout the year. To do so, we genotyped yellow perch at 14 microsatellite loci collected from 10 DRMs in both deep and littoral habitats during spring, summer, and autumn and two nearshore sites in Lake Michigan (spring and autumn) during 2015–2016 and supplemented our sampling with fish collected in 2013. We found that yellow perch from littoral‐DRM habitats were genetically distinct from fish captured in nearshore Lake Michigan. Our data also suggested that Lake Michigan yellow perch likely use deep‐DRM habitats during autumn. Further, we found genetic structuring among DRMs. These patterns support hypotheses of fishery managers that yellow perch seasonally migrate to and from Lake Michigan, yet, interestingly, these fish do not appear to interbreed with littoral fish despite occupying the same DRM. We recommend that fisheries managers account for this complex population structure and movement when setting fishing regulations and assessing the effects of harvest in Lake Michigan.

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Yellow perch genetic structure and habitat use among connected habitats in eastern Lake Michigan

Chorak

Ruetz

Thum

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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“…Ekman transport, which is the balance between the Coriolis and turbulent drag force that causes surface currents that are perpendicular (to the right in the northern hemisphere) to the wind direction, can drive surface water away from shore and thus lead to the upwelling of deeper hypolimnetic water. In connected large waterbodies, this mechanism can result in interbasin exchange flows such as those observed in the transport of hypolimnetic water from Lake Michigan into Muskegon Lake (Biddanda et al ; Liu et al ) and from Lake Huron into Georgian Bay (Plattner et al ; Nguyen et al ). In Lake Erie, prevailing winds from the south and southwest in the south‐western part of the central basin can lead to upwelling of the thermocline in the northern part of the central basin (e.g., Bartish ; Bouffard et al ; Rao et al ).…”

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“…Low Bu may be found in waterbodies with interbasin exchange flows (e.g., Lake Geneva, Bu ≈ 0.0469; Bouffard et al ; Lake Michigan, Bu ≈ 0.07; Bouffard et al ; Lake Huron, Bu ≈ 0.021; Anderson and Schwab ; Mediterranean Sea, Bu ≈ 0.02; Pinardi and Masetti ) as well as Lake Erie (Bu ≈ 0.06; Bouffard et al ) examined in this study. In addition to the rapid changes in water temperature, nutrient concentration, and DO (Umlauf and Lemmin ; Plattner et al ; Biddanda et al ), interbasin exchange flows can lead to instantaneous hypoxia in the receiving basin. Instantaneous hypoxia may occur multiple times annually and was the dominant form (i.e., 63% of cases) of hypoxia in the study area over the past 30 yr.…”

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“…For example, episodic internal waves force hypolimnetic waters from the side to main basin of Lake Geneva (Umlauf and Lemmin ), whereas Ekman flow driven upwelling forces cold hypolimnetic waters from Lake Huron into Georgian Bay (Plattner et al ; Nguyen et al ). Episodic upwelling of cold and deeper waters from Lake Michigan into Muskegon Lake (Biddanda et al ; Liu et al ) and from Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea (Glazer et al ; Falina et al ) can generate floating hypoxic zones in the smaller receiving basin by propagating under existing hypoxic waters. Despite the negative implications of hypoxia, there are a limited number of studies on the hydrodynamic mechanisms leading to hypoxia through interbasin exchange‐flow processes (e.g., Biddanda et al ), as in the case of the western basin of Lake Erie.…”

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“…Episodic upwelling of cold and deeper waters from Lake Michigan into Muskegon Lake (Biddanda et al ; Liu et al ) and from Mediterranean Sea into the Black Sea (Glazer et al ; Falina et al ) can generate floating hypoxic zones in the smaller receiving basin by propagating under existing hypoxic waters. Despite the negative implications of hypoxia, there are a limited number of studies on the hydrodynamic mechanisms leading to hypoxia through interbasin exchange‐flow processes (e.g., Biddanda et al ), as in the case of the western basin of Lake Erie. The purpose of this study is, therefore, to examine the nature of hypoxia in the western basin of Lake Erie through field measurements that will allow us to quantify the relationship between hydrodynamics and mass transfer of DO within the hypolimnion and through the sediment–water interface under different meteorological conditions.…”

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Episodic hypoxia in the western basin of Lake Erie

Jabbari

Ackerman

Boegman

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Limnology & Oceanography

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Hypoxic conditions continue to be an environmental concern in lakes, including those with shallow and well‐mixed basins, such as the western basin of Lake Erie, in which hypoxia is not anticipated. We investigated the dynamics and causes of hypoxia using field measurements at two locations in the western basin during the late summer of 2017. Two hypoxic events (dissolved oxygen [DO] concentrations < 2 mg L−1) were recorded that were caused by upwelling of hypolimnetic water from the central basin of the lake following winds from the south and southwest. In this case, instantaneous stratification occurred when cool central basin water (i.e., 15.7°C) intruded as a 2.5‐m‐thick layer above the bottom under the warm western basin waters (i.e., 23.9°C). A third hypoxic event, which was associated with more typical thermal stratification from atmospheric warming, occurred during a calm and warm period near the end of the deployment. In this case, we observed a continuous decline in hypolimnetic DO from ≈ 8 to < 5 mg L−1, which likely declined to < 2 mg L−1 in 14 d using a one‐dimensional model. Interbasin exchange flows generated instantaneous hypoxia multiple times within a year and were the dominate cause (63% of 11 cases) of hypoxia identified during August fishing trawls in the study area over the past 30 yr. Results of this work should help with the prediction and understanding of hypoxia in lakes with multiple basins, which will be informative for water quality and fisheries management.

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Quantification of Anoxia and Hypoxia in Water Bodies

Nürnberg¹

2019

Encyclopedia of Water

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Anoxia and hypoxia are wide‐spread in freshwater systems and have been increasing in response to anthropogenic disturbances and climate change with biological and chemical implications. The concept of the anoxic factor to quantify anoxia and of the hypoxic factor for higher levels of dissolved oxygen concentration (DO) in lakes, reservoirs, and river sections has facilitated the exploration of hypoxia in a number of applications. This method condenses information from numerous individual DO profiles into annual values or factors that are comparable between and within lakes and hence invites the formulation and testing of hypotheses related to the DO status in water bodies. Besides the definition of the factors, proven and potential applications are described. They include the description of annual and spatial trend in anoxia or hypoxia, the evaluation of restoration techniques with respect to hypolimnetic oxygen depletion, the determination of internal phosphorus loading in stratified and polymictic lakes, the exploration of habitat constraints of fish due to hypoxia, and the examination of potential effects of climatic change on DO content and internal phosphorus loading.

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Chronicles of hypoxia: Time-series buoy observations reveal annually recurring seasonal basin-wide hypoxia in Muskegon Lake – A Great Lakes estuary

Cited by 44 publications

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Yellow perch genetic structure and habitat use among connected habitats in eastern Lake Michigan

Yellow perch genetic structure and habitat use among connected habitats in eastern Lake Michigan

Episodic hypoxia in the western basin of Lake Erie

Quantification of Anoxia and Hypoxia in Water Bodies

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