Lake Michigan faces exotic species, dune sand mining, other challenges
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Species diversity across the dune swales of Lake Michigan at Sturgeon Bay
The dune system of Lake Michigan at Sturgeon Bay leads back thousands of years into the surrounding forest and intermittently form small pools in the swales of the dunes. Maintained by rainwater and including a unique composition of species and chemistry, the pools of the dunes and the surrounding terrestrial life show a pattern of diversity unique to dune swales. Percent cover of species at fo...
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The present recommendations for dune removal or dune retreat on the Great Lakes for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood mapping purposes are based on a simple geometric method as outlined in FEMA (2009). The simple procedure establishes a relationship between dune survival and storm intensity. The method was adopted several decades ago when numerical models were inadequate for pred...
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Restoration efforts for lake trout Salvelinus namaycush in Lake Michigan are increasingly being focused on re-establishment of the species in deep water. This focus is based in part on examination of historical records of indigenous lake trout, which suggest that offshore reefs, especially deep reefs, sustained the greatest numbers of lake trout. This focus is also based on the increasing impac...
متن کاملThe State of Lake Michigan
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عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0096-3941
DOI: 10.1029/00eo00366