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Published on: July 24, 2016
Historical watershed stressors for the Laurentian Great Lakes
Euan D Reavie1, Meijun Cai1, Terry N Brown2
1Natural Resources Research Institute University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth Minnesota.
Abstract:
This report provides a detailed set of historical stressor data for 60 watersheds comprising the Laurentian Great Lakes basin. Archival records were transcribed from public records to create quantitative data on human activities: population, mining, deforestation, and agriculture. Yearly records of stressors are provided from 1780 through 2010. These data may be used to track historical impacts on Great Lakes coastal and open water conditions. They may further be used to examine corresponding effects on response variables such as biological communities quantified during monitoring and palaeoecological programmes.
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