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Study of Off-Channel Waterbodies in the Middle Mississippi River data

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2017-03-01
End Date
2017-10-01

Citation

Sobotka, M. and West, J., 2018, Study of Off-Channel Waterbodies in the Middle Mississippi River data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9O6NXCQ.

Summary

Backwaters and other floodplain waterbodies are rare within the Middle Mississippi River. The lack of these habitats likely influences water quality, nutrient processing, and communities of organisms. In early 2016 a major flood event breached two levees south of Cape Girardeau, MO resulting in the creation of two new backwaters. Water quality, metabolic rate, and fish community data were collected from the new backwaters as well as an isolated floodplain lake.

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Point of Contact :
Molly Sobotka
Originator :
Molly Sobotka, John West
Metadata Contact :
Benjamin A Schlifer
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Off-channel waterbodies MMR Data.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		183.27 KB application/fgdc+xml
FloodplainWQ.csv 23.14 KB text/csv
greondat.csv 153.61 KB text/csv
FloodplainFishInvertTurtle2017.csv 604.47 KB text/csv
HOBO_Logger_Data.csv 334.17 KB text/csv
site table.csv 1.69 KB text/csv
UMRRlogo_tag_rgb300px.png thumbnail 19.51 KB image/png

Purpose

Off-channel and floodplain water bodies are important components of large river ecosystems. These habitats often take the form of side channels, backwaters, and floodplain lakes formed by meander cut-offs or extreme high flow events and can be permanently connected to the main river but may become disconnected during low flow periods. High water in 2016 created some rare back waters in the Mississippi River the data was collected to understand these new back waters in the Middle Mississippi River.
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