Importance of long-term intensive monitoring programs for understanding multiple drivers influencing Lake Ontario zooplankton communities

KL Bowen, WJ Currie, H Niblock, CL Ward… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2022 - Elsevier
Drivers of lower food web composition and productivity in Lake Ontario have undergone
extensive changes in the last 40 years, including nutrient abatement, fluctuations in …

Balancing boat‐electrofishing sampling effort against costs for nearshore fish communities in the Toronto waterfront, Lake Ontario

S Theis, A Wallace, B Graham, B Coey… - Fisheries …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To enhance management of aquatic systems, long‐term monitoring programs are crucial.
However, managers often lack sufficient guidance in decision‐making. In this study, we …

Nearshore fish community changes along the Toronto waterfront in accordance with management and restoration goals: Insights from two decades of monitoring

S Theis, A Chreston, A Wallace, B Graham, B Coey… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Aquatic habitat in the Greater Toronto Area has been subject to anthropogenic stressors.
The subsequent aquatic habitat degradation that followed led to the Toronto and Region …

Balancing prey availability and predator consumption: a multispecies stock assessment for Lake Ontario

KB Fitzpatrick, BC Weidel, MJ Connerton… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Trophic interactions are drivers of ecosystem change and stability, yet are often excluded
from fishery assessment models, despite their potential capacity to improve estimates of …

A multi‐metric index for assessing two decades of community responses to broad‐scale shoreline enhancement and restoration along the Toronto waterfront

S Theis, L Cartwright, A Chreston… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity and habitat loss due to historical and continued urbanization and anthropogenic
development require continuous efforts to abate ongoing environmental decline. Restoration …

Great Lakes Lake Trout Thiamine Status and Influencing Factors in Lake Ontario

TM Blowers - 2024 - soar.suny.edu
hapter 1: Though stocking lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in the Great Lakes has found
success in establishing some self-sustaining populations, a return of consistent natural …