Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
PREFACE
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
COASTAL WETLANDS CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTICIPANTS
Table of Contents
1: The Effects of Water Level Fluctuations on Great Lakes Coastal Marshes
2: Environmental Influences on the Distribution and Composition of Wetlands in the Great Lakes Basin
Discussion
3: Vegetation Dynamics, Buried Seeds, and Water Level Fluctuations on the Shorelines of the Great Lakes
Discussion
4: Preliminary Observations on the Flux of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus in a Great Lakes Coastal Marsh
Discussion 5: Nutrient Cycling by Wetlands and Possible Effects of Water LevelsDiscussion
6: Avian Wetland Habitat Functions Affected by Water Level Fluctuations
Discussion
7: Avian Response to Wetland Vegetative Cycles
8: Relationships of Water Level Fluctuations and Fish
Discussion
9: Simplified Computation of Wetland Vegetation Cycles
10: Wetland Valuation: Policy versus Perceptions
11: Ontario's Wetland Evaluation System with Reference to Some Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
12: Significant Wetlands in Southern Ontario: Interim Provicial Report --
1984 13: Wetland Threats and Losses in Lake St. Clair14: Human Interference with Natural Water Level Regimes in the Context of Other Cultural Stresses on Great Lakes Wetlands
Discussion
15: Control of Cattail and Bulrush by Cutting and Flooding
16: Marsh Management by Water Level Manipulation or Other Natural Techniques: A Community Approach
Discussion
INDEX