Environmental Assessment and Habitat Evaluation of the Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels

ISBN-13: 9789401053860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 361 str.

M. Munawar; T. Edsall

Spis treści

Biota of the St. Marys River: habitat evaluation and environmental assessment.- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surficial sediments and caged mussels of the St. Marys River, 1985.- Effects of pollution on benthic invertebrate communities of the St. Marys River, 1985.- Use of a geographic information system data base to measure and evaluate wetland changes in the St. Marys River, Michigan.- Limnological aspects of the St. Clair River.- Distribution and abundance of young fish in the St. Clair River and associated waters, Ontario.- Distribution and abundance of young fish in Chenal Ecarte and Chematogen Channel in the St. Clair River delta, Ontario.- Environmental quality assessment of the St. Clair River as reflected by the distribution of benthic macroinvertebrates in 1985.- Growth and overwinter survival of the Asiatic clam, Corbicula fluminea, in the St. Clair River, Michigan.- Deformities in larval Procladius spp. and dominant Chironomini from the St. Clair River.- Biota of Lake St. Clair: habitat evaluation and environmental assessment.- The plankton ecology of Lake St. Clair, 1984.- Plankton community structure in Lake St. Clair, 1984.- Phosphorus cycling by mussels (Unionidae: Bivalvia) in Lake St. Clair.- Biology of the exotic zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, in relation to native bivalves and its potential impact in Lake St. Clair.- The Detroit River: effects of contaminants and human activities on aquatic plants and animals and their habitats.- Response of bacteria and phytoplankton to contaminated sediments from Trenton Channel, Detroit River.- Tumors in fish from the Detroit River.- Heavy metal contamination of sediments in the Upper Connecting Channels of the Great Lakes.- Application of a microcomputer-based algal fluorescence technique for assessing toxicity: Lake St. Clair and St. Clair River examples.- A method for evaluating the impact of navigationally induced suspended sediments from the Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels on the primary productivity.- Heavy metals in aquatic macrophytes drifting in a large river.- Distribution of Hexagenia nymphs and visible oil in sediments of the Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels.- Production of Hexagenia limbata nymphs in contaminated sediments in the Upper Great Lakes Connecting Channels.