“My hope is that we will not forget the lessons of three critical decades –the 1960s to the 1980s– when science based information, an ethic of concern for our shared environment and progressive bipartisan politics arrested and reversed a century of Great Lakes deterioration. This volume, cataloguing and analyzing the current science on the state of Lake Michigan, is an important part of that remembrance. It carries forward the singular contribution that the binational Great Lakes scientific community has made not only to restoring the Great Lakes, but also to the world’s body of knowledge about large lake ecology, the long-range transport of pollutants, and the importance of habitat in assuring ecosystem health. It is a valuable addition to the Great Lakes literature.”
– Lana Pollack, President, Michigan Environmental Council.
Table of Contents
Editorial
T. Edsall, M. Munawar
Foreword
L. Pollack
Physical and chemical regimes:
Physical, limnological and hydrological characteristics of Lake Michigan
D.J. Schwab, T.E. Croley II, and W.M. Schertzer
Lake Michigan paleolimnology
E.F. Stoermer
Composition and Accumulation of Recent Sediments in Lake Michigan
B. Eadie, J.A. Robbins
Submerged terra incognita: Lake Michigan’s abundant but unknown rocky zones
J. Janssen, M.B. Berg, S.J. Lozano
Recent and Long-term nutrient trends in Lake Michigan
G.J. Warren, R.G. Kreis
Atrazine in the Lake Michigan ecosystem: Monitoring results from the Lake Michigan mass balance study
R.N. Brent and G.J.Warren
Food-web
A preliminary assessment of the planktonic food web in Lake Michigan
M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar, M. Fitzpatrick, D. Lynn
The pelagic phytoplankton community of Lake Michigan, 1983 to 1999
J.C. Makarewicz
Crustacean Zooplankton Communities in Lake Michigan
R.P.Barbiero, L.L. Schacht, R.E. Little and M.L. Tuchman
Recent trends in benthic macroinvertebrate communities in Lake Michigan
T.F. Nalepa, D.L. Fanslow, G.A. Lang and S.A. Ruberg
Role of a lake-wide prey fish survey in understanding ecosystem dynamics and managing fisheries of Lake Michigan
C.P. Madenjian
The uncoupling of trophic food webs by invasive species in Lake Michigan
D. Jude, J. Janssen, E. Stoermer
Waterbirds
The Double-crested Cormorant in Lake Michigan: A review of population trends, ecology and current management
N. Seefelt and J. Gillingham
Bald eagles of Lake Michigan: Ecology and Contaminants
C.R.Dykstra, M.W. Meyer, S. Postupalsky, K.L. Stromborg, D.K. Warnke and R.G. Eckstein
Temporal and spatial trends of organochlorine contaminants in Herring gull eggs from Lake Michigan, 1976-2002.
D.V. Chip Weseloh, R.A. Faber, and C. Pekarik
Wetlands
Lake Michigan wetlands: Classification, concerns and Management opportunities
D.A. Wilcox
Lake Michigan’s coastal wetlands: Distribution, biological components with emphasis on fish and threats
D. Jude, D. Albert, D.G. Uzarski, J. Brazner
Distribution, Classification and selection rationale of coastal wetlands in Lake Michigan
T. P. Simon, R.L. Dufour, P.M. Stewart, and M. Moffett
Management and Initiatives
Developing indicators of ecosystem health
P.Bertram, C. Forst, and P. Horvatin
The state of Lake Michigan in 2000 and its linkage to the joint strategic plan for management of the Great Lakes fisheries
T.N. Trudeau
A review of Sea Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) Control in Lake Michigan, 1960-2001
D. S. Lavis
An initial, landscape-based information system for ecological assessment of Lake Michigan Tributaries
P.W. Seelbach and M. J. Wiley
Protecting visitor health in beach waters in Lake Michigan: Problems and opportunities
M.B. Nevers and R.L. Whitman
Summary and synthesis
Epilogue
T. Edsall, M. Munawar