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Northern Pike abundance and natal fidelity in Lake Erie marshes

Stott, Nathan Daniel, Stott
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530892530309374

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2018, Master of Science (MS), Bowling Green State University, Biological Sciences.
Over 90 percent of the historical wetlands in the Ohio portion of Lake Erie drainage have been lost, and of those that remain many are diked wetlands that have no surface water connection to Lake Erie. Recent restoration efforts have been made to reconnect these wetlands with the focus of allowing fish species to access these productive wetland habitats. In order to quantify and model the timing of fish movement into one of these reconnected wetlands, a high frequency sonar system (DIDSON) was used during spring of 2017. While all fish entering and leaving the wetland were ensonified, analysis was focused on the highly sought after native Northern Pike and invasive Common Carp to investigate if there are temporal differences in spring spawning migrations between the two species. Additionally, to investigate how fish communities respond when given time after wetland reconnection occurs, an additional study was conducted by sampling fish communities using seine hauls in a variety of coastal Lake Erie wetlands. Wetlands selection was based on encompassing a gradient of time since they were connected to Lake Erie. Wetlands that were only periodically connected to Lake Erie or were very recently reconnected were found to have lower fish diversity.
Jeff Miner, Ph.D (Advisor)
John Farver (Committee Member)
Robert Huber (Committee Member)
Geoffrey Steinhart (Committee Member)
Dan Weigman (Committee Member)
51 p.
Ecology; Freshwater Ecology; Natural Resource Management
Northern Pike; Common Carp exclusion; Invasive fish management; Wetland; Wetland Fish Diversity;

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  • Stott, Stott, N. D. (2018). Northern Pike abundance and natal fidelity in Lake Erie marshes [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530892530309374

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stott, Stott, Nathan. Northern Pike abundance and natal fidelity in Lake Erie marshes. 2018. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530892530309374.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stott, Stott, Nathan. "Northern Pike abundance and natal fidelity in Lake Erie marshes." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1530892530309374

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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