“This State of Lake Ontario volume reflects the breadth of scientific inquiry, the wealth of information on the past and present, and the future of this large ecosystem. The luxury of knowledge and understanding of the LakeOntario ecosystem speaks volumes to its uniqueness as a long term ecological site and, more importantly, as a barometer of ecological change globally.”
– Ed Mills, Professor. Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University Biological Field Station.
Table of Contents
Editorial
M. Munawar
Preface
E. Mills
Foreword
J. Leach
Physical and Chemical Regime
Physical limnology and hydrometeorological characteristics of Lake Ontario with consideration of climate impacts
W.M. Schertzer
Sedimentary environment of Lake Ontario: Geologic setting, sediment processes, and related environmental issues
J.P. Coakley, C.F.M. Lewis
Long-term seasonal and spatial trends in nutrients, chlorophyll a and light attenuation in Lake Ontario
E.S. Millard, O.E. Johannsson, M.A. Nielson, A.H. El-Shaarawi
Base of the Food-web
Assessing the microbial food web structure in Lake Ontario
M. Munawar, M. Legner, I.F. Munawar
Abundance, biomass, and diversity of planktonic ciliates (Ciliophora) in Lake Ontario
D.H. Lynn, M. Munawar, S. Carou, H. Niblock, P. Humby-Searle
Changes in phytoplankton biomass, composition and primary production of Lake Ontario
M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar
A history of changes in zooplankton community structure and function in Lake Ontario: Responses to whole-lake remediation and exotic invasions
O.E. Johannsson
Mysis relicta in Lake Ontario: Population dynamics, trophic linkages and further questions
O.E. Johannsson, L.G. Rudstam, G. Gal, E.L. Mills
A comparison of egg ratio and optical plankton counter methodologies for estimating zooplankton production: Spatial and temporal trends in Lake Ontario 1991-1997
T.J. Morris, W.G. Sprules
Disruption of the benthic community in Lake Ontario
S.J. Lozano, T.F. Nalepa
Changes in the benthic fauna of Lake Ontario 1990-1995, with local trends after 1981
R. Dermott, M. Geminiuc
Fish Community dynamics
Fish community dynamics of Lake Ontario: Long term trends in the fish populations of eastern Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte
J.M. Casselman, K.A. Scott
Spatial and temporal structure in fish distributions: A Lake Ontario case study
L.M. Kracker, L. Zhou, J.M. Jech, J.K. Horne, J.A. Tyler, S.B. Brandt
The offshore fish community in southern Lake Ontario, 1972-1998
R.W. Owens, R. O’Gorman, T.H. Eckert, B.F. Lantry
Biological structure and dynamics of fish assemblages in tributaries of eastern Lake Ontario
J.E. McKenna, Jr.
Resurgence and decline of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) stocks in eastern Lake Ontario, 1972 to 1999
J.A. Hoyle, J.M. Casselman, R. Dermott, T. Schaner
A review of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) restoration in Lake Ontario from an early life history perspective
J. Fitzsimons, B. Lantry, R. O’Gorman
The recreational boat fishery for salmonids in Lake Ontario 1985-1995
T.J. Stewart, J.R. Bowlby, M. Rawson, T.H. Eckert
Invasion of Exotics
Biological invasions in Lake Ontario: Past, present and future
I.C. Duggan, S.A. Bailey, R.I. Colautti, D.K. Gray, J.C. Makarewicz, H.J. MacIsaac
The ecology and impact of the invasion of Lake Ontario by the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussel (D. bugensis)
T.L. Negley, E.L. Mills, B. Baldwin, R. O’Gorman, R.W. Owens
Influence of Dreissena on the benthos and primary production in Lakes Ontario and Erie
R. Dermott, M. Munawar
Contaminants
Monitoring Lake Ontario’s waterbirds: contaminants in Herring Gull eggs and population changes in the Lake’s nearly 1,000,000 colonial waterbirds
D.V.C. Weseloh, C. Pekarik, R. Joos, J.F. Farquhar, J.L. Shutt, T. Havelka, I. Mazzocchi, G. Barrett, R. McCollough, R.L. Miller, A. Mathers