Connections between (positive) mean ergodic operators acting in Banach lattices and properties of the underlying lattice itself are well understood; see the works of Emel'yanov, Wol¤ and Zaharopol cited in the references. For Fréchet lattices (or more general locally convex solid Riesz spaces) there is virtually no information available. For a Fréchet lattice E, it is shown here (amongst other things) that every power bounded linear operator on E is mean ergodic if and only if E is re ‡exive if and only if E is Dedekind -complete and every positive power bounded operator on E is mean ergodic if and only if every positive power bounded operator in the strong dual E 0 (no longer a Fréchet lattice) is mean ergodic. An important technique is to develop criteria which detect when E admits a (positively) complemented lattice copy of c0,`1 or`1.