Wetlands
Lake Erie has lost an estimated 90% of Ohio's historic "Great Black Swamp." Remaining coastal marshes are often diked to prevent further losses to development or fluctuating lake levels. While protecting wetlands from complete loss, dikes dramatically change wetland functions in the landscape. With only a small fraction of Lake Erie's original wetlands remaining, the preservation and restoration of those that remain and the functions they provide to the Lake's biotic and human communities are essential.
Project List
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R/PS-015-PD
Started: 9/1/1996Economic and Hydrologic Analysis of Integrated Wetland Reservoir and Subirrigated Agricultural Production Systems
R/PS-022
Started: 9/1/1996, Status: CompletedPhotodegradation of Agricultural Pesticides and Herbicides in Estuarine Wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin
R/ER-039
Started: 3/1/1997, Status: CompletedStrateties to Control Exotic Invasive Plant Species in Great Lakes Wetlands: A Field Evaluation
R/ER-046-PD
Started: 3/1/1997, Status: CompletedVegetation Dynamics in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands: Toward a Field-Based Management Model
R/ER-054-PD
Started: 8/1/1999Phragmites australis: Response to Wave Exposure Gradients, Substrate Characteristics, and Its Effect on the Diversity of Shoreline Vegetation in a Lake Erie Coastal Marsh
R/ER-056-PD
Started: 3/1/2000Effects of Salt Contamination and Exotic Species Invasions on a Large, Freshwater Marsh in the Lake Erie Basin
R/GIS-002-PD
Started: 3/1/2000, Status: CompletedSpatial Modelling of the Mentor Marsh and its Watershed: Equipment Grant
R/ER-059-PD
Started: 5/24/2000, Status: CompletedPreliminary tests of seiches on plant litter decomposition and macroinvertebrates in Great Lake coastal wetlands
R/EM-025-PD
Started: 5/1/2001, Status: CompletedLarval Fish Flux between Metzger Marsh and Lake Erie
R/EM-022
Started: 3/1/2002, Status: CompletedOrigin and fate of the organic matter exchanged between coastal wetland and the Great Lakes
R/ER-063-PD
Started: 9/1/2002Wetland Renovation in East Harbor State Park, Lakeside-Marblehead, OH - Water Control
R/ER-029-PD
Started: 6/1/2003Distribution and abundance of fishes in native and non-native macrophytes in Old Woman Creek estuary
R/ER-065-PD
Started: 6/1/2003, Status: CompletedThe fish assemblage of Metzger Marsh: Continued assessment of the effects of restoration
R/EM-027
Started: 9/1/2004Large Lake Ecosystems: Modeling Interactions Among Human, Biological, and Physical Processes
