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dc.contributor.authorKeough, Janet R.
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Todd A.
dc.contributor.authorGuntenspergen, Glenn R.
dc.contributor.authorWilcox, Douglas A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T17:41:09Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T17:41:09Z
dc.date.issued1999-12-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/2299
dc.descriptionWETLANDS, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 1999, pp. 821-834 © 1999, The Society of Wetland Scientists --- This article is contribution 1033 of the USGS Great Lakes Science Center.
dc.description.abstractGauging the impact of manipulative activities, such as rehabilitation or management, on wetlands requires having a notion of the unmanipulated condition as a reference. An understanding of the reference condition requires knowledge of dominant factors influencing ecosystem processes and biological communities. In this paper, we focus on natural physical factors (conditions and processes) that drive coastal wetland ecosystems of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Great Lakes coastal wetlands develop under conditions of largelake hydrology and disturbance imposed at a hierarchy of spatial and temporal scales and contain biotic communities adapted to unstable and unpredictable conditions. Coastal wetlands are configured along a continuum of hydrogeomorphic types: open coastal wetlands, drowned river mouth and Hooded delta wetlands, and protected wetlands, each developing distinct ecosystem properties and biotic communities. Hydrogeomorphic factors associated with the lake and watershed operate at a hierarchy of scales: a) local and short-term (seiches and ice action), b) watershed /lakewide /annual (seasonal water- level change), and c) larger or year-to-year and longer (regional and/or greater than one-year). Other physical factors include the unique water quality features of each lake. The aim of this paper is to provide scientists and managers with a framework for considering regional and site-specific geomorphometry and a hierarchy of physical processes in planning management and conservation projects.
dc.subjectCoastal Wetlands
dc.subjectEcosystem Response
dc.subjectGeomorphology
dc.subjectGreat Lakes
dc.subjectHydrology
dc.subjectIce
dc.subjectReference Condition
dc.subjectSeiche
dc.subjectWater Level
dc.subjectWater Quality
dc.subjectSWRA
dc.titleHydrogeomorphic Factors and Ecosystem Responses in Coastal Wetlands of the Great Lakes
dc.typearticle
dc.source.journaltitleWetlands
dc.source.volume19
dc.source.issue4
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-07T17:41:09Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Brockport
dc.source.peerreviewedTRUE
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.description.publicationtitleEnvironmental Science and Ecology Faculty Publications
dc.contributor.organizationIndiana University - Bloomington
dc.contributor.organizationThe College at Brockport
dc.contributor.organizationU.S. Geological Survey
dc.languate.isoen_US


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