Fish Utilization of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands

Jude, David J.; Pappas, Janice L.

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“…First, it is widely accepted that juvenile fish use macrophytes to hide from piscivores (Scott and Crossman 1998). Second, macrophytes provide shelter for plankton and benthic invertebrates, which are essential prey items for both juvenile fish and benthivores (Jude and Pappas 1992). Increased water turbidity can also affect the acuity of visual feeders and make it more difficult for them to forage.…”

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Development and use of the Wetland Fish Index to assess the quality of coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Seilheimer¹,

Chow‐Fraser²

2006

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Abstract:We use fish and environmental data from 40 wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes to develop the Wetland Fish Index (WFI), a tool that can be used to assess the quality of coastal marshes. A partial canonical correspondence analysis was used to ordinate fish species along multidimensional environmental axes that accounted for anthropogenic disturbance based on temperature, conductivity, and the presence of pollutants (e.g., suspended solids and primary nutrients). Compared with other measures of fish habitat quality (e.g., Shannon-Wiener diversity index and species richness), the WFI was the only index that was significantly related to the degree of water quality degradation and wetlands condition, as indicated by an independent index of wetland quality, the Water Quality Index (WQI). WQI ranks sites according to deterioration in water quality and is statistically related to the degree of land-use alteration in wetland watersheds. We demonstrate the usefulness of the WFI for detecting intrawetland variation between two sites in a degraded urban wetland, Frenchman's Bay, Lake Ontario, and to distinguish the heavily impacted wetlands in lower Green Bay from the less-impacted marshes in middle and upper Green Bay, Lake Michigan. This was accomplished by using only published fish data without corresponding environmental variables.Résumé : Nous avons utilisé des données sur les poissons et sur le milieu provenant de 40 terres humides des Grands Lacs laurentiens afin de mettre au point un indice ichtyologique des terres humides (WFI, Wetland Fish Index), un outil qui peut permettre d'évaluer la qualité des marais côtiers. Une analyse partielle des correspondances canoniques a servi à ordonner les espèces de poissons le long d'axes environnementaux multidimensionnels qui expliquent les perturbations anthropiques d'après la température, la conductivité et la présence de polluants (par exemple, de solides en suspension et de nutriments primaires). Par comparaison à d'autres mesures de la qualité de l'habitat des poissons (par exemple, l'indice de diversité de Shannon-Wiener et la richesse spécifique), le WFI est le seul qui soit relié significativement à l'importance de la dégradation de la qualité de l'eau et à l'état des terres humides, tel qu'indiqué par un indice indépendant de la qualité des terres humides, l'indice de qualité de l'eau (WQI, Water Quality Index). Le WQI ordonne les sites d'après la détérioration de la qualité de leur eau et montre une corrélation significative avec les modifications associées à l'utilisation des terres dans le bassin versant des terres humides. Nous montrons l'utilité de WFI pour détecter la variation dans un même système entre deux sites dans Frenchman's Bay, lac Ontario, une terre humide urbaine et dégradée; il peut aussi distinguer les terres humides fortement modifiées de la partie inférieure de Green Bay. lac Michigan, des régions moins affectées des parties moyennes et supérieures de la baie. Cela a pu être réalisé à partir seulement des données publiées sur les poiss...

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“…Hydrologically connected either seasonally or permanently, these shallow marshes have diverse emergent and submergent vegetation that provide important spawning habitat for many species of the Great Lakes fish community (Jude and Pappas 1992).…”

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Development and use of the Wetland Fish Index to assess the quality of coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Seilheimer¹,

Chow‐Fraser²

2006

Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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“…This classification was based on a correspondence analysis by Jude and Pappas (1992), which separated species along an environmental gradient or according to habitat type. Any species that was recognized by Jude and Pappas (1992) as a marsh species was classified as a resident species of the wetland; all others were classified as nonresident species.…”

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Effects of flow modification on a cattail wetland at the mouth of Irondequoit Creek near Rochester, New York: Water levels, wetland biota, sediment, and water quality

Coon¹

2004

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“…Also the increased population, together with a change in recreational habits, has led to an increase in boating and associated construction of jetties and marinas, as well as dredging to gain access by boat to shallow shores. Recreational boating and ferry traffic have been shown to lead to a decrease in vegetation cover and change in the composition of the submerged vegetation community (Eriksson et al 2004), which can adversely affect the juvenile fish community that utilizes these shallow, sheltered areas for reproduction, i.e., as spawning and nursery areas (Jude and Pappas 1992;Sandström et al 2005).…”

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Shoreline development and degradation of coastal fish reproduction habitats

Sundblad

Bergström

2014

AMBIO

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Coastal development has severely affected habitats and biodiversity during the last century, but quantitative estimates of the impacts are usually lacking. We utilize predictive habitat modeling and mapping of human pressures to estimate the cumulative long-term effects of coastal development in relation to fish habitats. Based on aerial photographs since the 1960s, shoreline development rates were estimated in the Stockholm archipelago in the Baltic Sea. By combining shoreline development rates with spatial predictions of fish reproduction habitats, we estimated annual habitat degradation rates for three of the most common coastal fish species, northern pike (Esox lucius), Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) and roach (Rutilus rutilus). The results showed that shoreline constructions were concentrated to the reproduction habitats of these species. The estimated degradation rates, where a degraded habitat was defined as having C3 constructions per 100 m shoreline, were on average 0.5 % of available habitats per year and about 1 % in areas close to larger population centers. Approximately 40 % of available habitats were already degraded in 2005. These results provide an example of how many small construction projects over time may have a vast impact on coastal fish populations.

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Fish Utilization of Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands

Cited by 210 publications

References 46 publications

Development and use of the Wetland Fish Index to assess the quality of coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Development and use of the Wetland Fish Index to assess the quality of coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Effects of flow modification on a cattail wetland at the mouth of Irondequoit Creek near Rochester, New York: Water levels, wetland biota, sediment, and water quality

Shoreline development and degradation of coastal fish reproduction habitats

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