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Macroinvertebrate And Bacteria Community Responses To Tributary Inputs At Coastal Wetlands Of The Detroit River, Ontario, Canada, Jessica Robson
Macroinvertebrate And Bacteria Community Responses To Tributary Inputs At Coastal Wetlands Of The Detroit River, Ontario, Canada, Jessica Robson
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The Detroit River is a Great Lakes Area of Concern with five monitored wetlands in the Canadian jurisdiction. Habitat assessments have indicated possible stress at wetlands receiving inflow from Turkey Creek and River Canard tributaries. These assessments are made within the tributaries. Yet, macrophyte beds extend into the river upstream and downstream and are important biodiversity habitats. This thesis examines benthic macroinvertebrate and sediment bacteria community compositions for differences with respect to tributaries by two means. First, we examine inter-wetland differences for resemblance to water quality. We had found by NMDS and PERMANOVA that neither taxonomic group resembled water quality …