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1 Pine River Mismer Mackinac Golf Course Mckay Cedarville Port Dolomite St. Martin s Duck 10 km Lake Huron Voight Peck Prentiss Almeda Wigwam Saginaw Bay Cotter Road Vanderbilt Park 25 km Wildfowl Bay/ Maisou Islands Low Disturbance Site Intermediate Disturbance Site High Disturbance Site

2 Escanaba R. Ogontz Bay Nahma Point St. Ignace (Bridge) Ludington Park Low Disturbance Site Intermediate Disturbance Site High Disturbance Site

3 Correspondence Analysis Using 1999 Taa Inner Scirpus 2.0 Nect Atr Orth Dimension 2 (17%) Gyrin Oce Ena Chir Daph Cae Tany Dip Hyd Mes Total Aes Bae HyaIsh Nai Ost Gyr Tub Sph Hir Lib gyr Bez Fpss PseuDeca Hal Drei Tri -0.5 Amn Cran Tanyp Gam Mys Turb Sty He Cori Anc Cae -1.0 Sig Lir Cop -1.5 Low Disturbance Site Intermediate Disturbance Site High Disturbance Site Dimension 1 (20%)

4 Correspondence Analysis Using 1999 Taa Inner Scirpus (2nd Run) 2 Dimension 2 (21%) 1 0 Cop Anc Cae TurbMys Gam HeCran Sty Gyr Hir Hya IshBae Bez Total Nai Sph Dip Tub Daph Mes Chir Tany Orth Hyd -1 Tanyp Aes Ost Cae Nect Cori Low Disturbance Site Intermediate Disturbance Site High Disturbance Site Lir Dimension 1 (24%)

5 + + Simpson Diversity Adjacent Agriculture (or Inverse of Forest) Relative Wetland Chemistry: ph, Temperature, Turbidity, Alkalinity, DO (daytime), Redo (daytime) SO 4 Shrubs Turbidity Urban and Roads (or Inverse of Forest) Relative Wetland Chemistry: Cl, Sp. Cond., NO3, NH4 - Crustacea + Mollusca and Odonata Richness - - % Isopoda Genera Richness - + % Sphaeriidae % Crustacea + Mollusca % Gastropoda Shannon Diversity Evenness % Odonata + Ephemeroptera + Trichoptera Richness Swamps Relative Wetland Chemistry: Alkalinity, SpCond., DO (daytime) SO 4 Redo (daytime), Turbidity, SRP % Amphipoda Simpson Diversity -

6 3 Inner Scirpus Principal Component Analysis Using 1999 Chemical/Physical data SRP Turbidity SO 4 DO 2 Chloride Principal Component 2 (29%) NH 4-2 Conductivity Alkalinity Low Disturbance Site Intermediate Disturbance Site Principal Component 1 (39%) High Disturbance Site

7 1999 Inner Scirpus Sites Principal Component Analysis Using 1978 Landuse Data 3 Urban Swamp Agricultural 2 Principal Component 2 (27%) Roads Shrub Low Disturbance Site Principal Component 1 (41%) Intermediate Disturbance Site High Disturbance Site

8 Relative abundance of Isopoda vs. Principal Component 2 (Pearson correlation r = , p = 0.024) 50 Relative Abundance of Isopoda (%) Principal Component 2 - Chemical/Physical ("Productivity" SRP, Alk, Turbidity, Silica)

9 Site Duck, Peck & Voight Bays Mackinac, Mismer, & Prentiss Bays Northern Lake Huron Site Descriptions Major Disturbance Some dwellings adjacent to the bay (Marquette Island) Some dwellings, highway across upper wet meadow zone St. Martin s Bay Limited sediment from the Pine R. Pine River Golf Course Port Dolomite Cedarville Bay Substantial sediment from Pine R. (St. Martin s Bay) Adjacent golf course (Mackinac Bay) Dolomite [(Ca,Mg)CO 3 ] mining Sewage effluent, urban runoff, marine traffic Saginaw Bay Site Descriptions Wildfowl Bay Wigwam Bay Vanderbilt Park Almeda Near intense agriculture and small town of Sebewaing (Island near r outer bay) North Branch of the Pine R. draining agricultural land (40% Forested,outer bay) Near Quanicassee River draining intensely farmed region Adjacent to intense agriculture Cotter Road Adjacent to intense agriculture; Near Saginaw R.

10 Northern Lake Huron Sites Duck Bay Peck Bay Voight Bay Mackinac Bay Mismer Bay Prentiss Bay St. Martin s Bay Pine River Golf Course Port Dolomite Cedarville Bay Saginaw Bay Sites Low Impact Intermediate Impact Wildfowl Bay Wigwam Bay Vanderbilt Park Almeda Cotter Road Intense Impact

11 Northern Lake Michigan Site Descriptions Site Major Disturbance Ogontz Nahma Pt. St. Ignace Bridge Escanaba Ludington Park Some dwellings adjacent to the site with an adjacent boat launch. A golf course and some dwellings adjacent to the site with an adjacent rural road. Adjacent to a major highway and urbanization. Near urban and industrial area of Escanaba MI. Near urban and industrial area of Escanaba MI. with heavy boat traffic.

12 Northern Lake Michigan Sites Ogontz Nahma Low Impact Pt. St. Ignace Bridge Escanaba Intermediate Impact Ludington Park

13 Taa from the Inner Scirpus zone responsible for ecoregional inertia Taa from the Outer Scirpus zone responsible for ecoregional inertia Crustacea Decapoda Mollusca Bivalvia Dreissena polymorpha Mollusca Gastropoda Lymnaeidae Fossaria Mollusca Gastropoda Lymnaeidae Pseudosuccinea columella Mollusca Gastropoda Physidae Physa gyrina Mollusca Gastropoda Hydrobiidae Amnicola Diptera Ceratopogonidae Atrichopogon Odonata Libellulidae Libellula Odonata Coenagrionidae Enallagma Hemiptera Coriidae Trichocoria Coleoptera Halipidae Halipus Coleoptera Gyrinidae Gyrinus Trichoptera Leptoceridae Oecetis Amphipoda Gammarid Gammarus Amphipoda Crangonctidae Crangony Gastopoda Lymnaeidae Fossaria Tricoptera Leptoceridae Mystacides Tricoptera Leptoceridae Nectopsyche Hemiptera Coriidae Sigara Hemiptera Coriidae Trichoria Tubificidae

14 Site WM OS IS E. Degraded Degraded Mod.Degraded Mod. Impacted Mild. Impacted Reference Mackinac Duck Mismer WildFowl Cotter Road Vanderbilt Peck Duck Mismer Mackinac St. Martins Prentiss Voight Cedarville Wildfowl Duck Bay Mismer Mackinac Port Dolomite Prentiss St. Martins Wigwam Golf Course Wildfowl Vanderbilt Almeda Cedarville Mismer Duck Mackinac Pine River Cedarville

15 Wilcoon Signed Ranks Tests Inner Scirpus Metrics:1998 vs.1999 (Water Level was 46cm lower in 1999 than in 1998) Metric (Inner Scirpus) Odonata Richness % Odonata Crustacea + Mollusca Richness Genera Richness % Gastropoda % Sphaeriidae Ephem + Trichop Richness % Isopoda Evenness Shannon Diversity Simpson Inde p Duck, Mackinac,, Prentiss, Mismer, St. Martin s, and Cedarville (n = 6) *Note: Similar results for using Duck, Mackinac, Mismer (n = 3)*

16 Site WM OS IS E. Degraded Degraded Mod.Degraded Mod. Impacted Mild. Impacted Reference Mackinac Duck 2001 Nahma Ogontz Escanaba Bridge Cedarville Port Dolomite McKay Pine River Ludington Park

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