Total phosphorus and water flux at a restored hydrologic connection at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in 2013 and 2014

Publication Date

2019-12-18

Start Date

2013-01-01

End Date

2014-12-31

Carter, G.S., Kowalski, K.P., and Eggleston, M.R., 2019, Total phosphorus and water flux at a restored hydrologic connection at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in 2013 and 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71V5C3B.

Type: Related Primary Publication

Nearly all of the coastal wetlands of Lake Erie have been drained for agriculture. Those that remain have been separated from their watersheds by earthen dikes. The hydrologic isolation of these wetlands disrupts ecosystem services typical to Great Lakes coastal wetlands, particularly the ability to remove nutrients by intercepting surface runoff and lake water. High-frequency measurements of discharge and turbidity were used to estimate total phosphorus and water flux of a hydrologically reconnected diked wetland pool in the Crane Creek-Lake Erie wetland complex in 2013 and 2014. The data support that there is a reduction of loading and altered timing of delivery of phosphorus to Lake Erie in wetland pools that have reestablished lake hydrology via reconnecting structures.

• Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC)
• USGS Data Release Products

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