Vegetation, bathymetry, and light attenuation surveys in selected Great Lakes coastal wetlands

Coastal wetlands are valued for their diversity of wildlife, habitats, and functions. The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) conducted vegetation and elevation surveys between 2009 and 2019, and bathymetric and light attenuation surveys between 2018 and 2019 in coastal wetlands across the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Superior, and the head of the St. Lawrence River. These datasets were used, in part, to predict the spatial and temporal response of coastal wetland vegetation to climate change as part of the Great Lakes Protection Initiative (GLPI). The goals of this project were to provide insight into climate change impacts by assessing the vulnerability of Great Lakes coastal wetlands, identify adaptive measures to increase the resilience of coastal wetlands, assess wetland vegetation response to physical variables (e.g., Great Lakes water levels), and inform the adaptive management of water-level regulation on Lake Ontario.

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File Identifier
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Date Stamp
2024-03-25T17:18:36
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Wildlife Service
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2022-03-18
Date (Creation)
2022-03-18
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Environment
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Not planned
Point of contact
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Wildlife Service

Keywords

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Wetlands

  • Aquatic plants

  • Plants

  • Digital elevation data

Business Functions

  • Oversee and Manage Site Conditions

  • Expand Scientific Knowledge / Develop New Methodologies for Assessing Site Conditions
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
2009-09-16
End Date
2019-09-20

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Ref. system Reference Systems

Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:4326 /
 

Distribution

Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Wildlife Service
 
 

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Keywords

Business Functions
Expand Scientific Knowledge / Develop New Methodologies for Assessing Site Conditions Oversee and Manage Site Conditions
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Aquatic plants Digital elevation data Plants Wetlands

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