The Lake Sturgeon as Survivor and Integrative Indicator of Changes in Stressed Aquatic Systems in the Laurentian Basin
Our Laurentian Basin is ancient geologically, and the lake sturgeon lineage in our basin is ancient biologically. During the last five centuries, much of the southerly half of this basin’s waters has been transformed—mostly by humans of European origin—from a vast, clean, cascading “riverine system”...
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Published in | The Great Lake Sturgeon p. 27 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Michigan State University Press
01.06.2013
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Summary: | Our Laurentian Basin is ancient geologically, and the lake sturgeon lineage in our basin is ancient biologically. During the last five centuries, much of the southerly half of this basin’s waters has been transformed—mostly by humans of European origin—from a vast, clean, cascading “riverine system” to clotted strings of confined and dirty reservoirs and lakes with deformed tributaries and “connecting channels,” that is, into what we may term a “reservoirine system” (see box 1).
The living part of the ecosystem in most of the southerly waters has changed from intricately organized and elaborately choreographed systems of native, freshwater, |
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ISBN: | 1611860784 9781611860788 |