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This project addressed regional climate change effects on aquatic food webs in the Great Lakes. We sought insights by examining Lake Erie as a representative system with a high level of anthropogenic impacts, strong nutrient gradients, seasonal hypoxia, and spatial overlap of cold- and cool-water fish guilds. In Lake Erie and in large embayments throughout the Great Lakes basin, this situation is a concern for fishery managers, as climate change may exacerbate hypoxia and reduce habitat volume for some species. We examined fish community composition, fine-scale distribution, prey availability, diets, and biochemical tracers for dominant fishes from study areas with medium-high nutrient levels (mesotrophic, Fairport...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2012,
CASC,
Climate Change,
Completed,
FY 2012, All tags...
Fish,
Fish,
Great Lakes,
Hydroacoustics,
Lake Erie,
Northeast,
Northeast CASC,
Northeast Climate Science Center,
Projects by Region,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Rivers, Streams and Lakes,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Water, Coasts and Ice,
Wildlife and Plants,
Wildlife and Plants,
climate change impacts,
emerald shiner,
fish populations,
food web dynamics,
hypoxia,
light stable isotope analysis,
rainbow smelt,
round goby,
white perch,
yellow perch, Fewer tags
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