- Define historical baselines for restoration of coastal Great Lakes pine forests
- Evaluate the necessity for restoration of composition and structure in modern coastal forests
- Assess the impact of historical legacies on modern composition and structure of coastal pine forest
Sea Grant Illinois-Indiana
Results
Developing functional indicators of coastal wetlands health
- Develop a suite of candidate functional indicators to identify human impacts to Great Lakes wetlands and characterize the functional nature of these systems
Impacts of invasive Asian carp on native food webs
- Determine the impacts of invasive Asian carps on native fishes and aquatic food webs
Assessing Nearshore-Offshore Connectivity in the Lake Michigan Food Web Using Multiple Trophic Indicators
- Investigate how ecosystem-wide changes to Lake Michigan affect prey utilization by top predators, using stomach content, fatty acid profiles, and stable isotope ratios
A web-based tool to measure environmental quality standards for phosphorus in water at Lake Erie
- Enhance the NAPRA online web-based decision support tool and update the soil database using SSURGO soils data suitable for field and county level evaluation
- Assess the level of phosphorus reaching water with existing cropping management systems and assess the change in phosphorus level due to increases in biofeedstock production and intensive livestock production
Nutrient fluxes in tile drains and ditches draining Midwestern agriculture fields fertilized with manure
- Calculate the loads of 17α- and 17β-estradiol, estrone, and estriol, nitrate, and dissolved reactive phosphorus exported from a subsurface tile drain and a receiving ditch
- Compare the export dynamics of nutrients and hormones in response to animal waste applications
- Assess the potential for nutrient best management practices (e.g., no-till, buffer strips, wetlands, etc.) to reduce hormone export from tile-drained agroecosystems
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