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Fish Spawning Locations, Great Lakes Region 2019

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Fish Spawning Locations, Great Lakes Region 2019
Description
The atlas contains information on all of the commercially and recreationally important species that use the tributaries, littoral and open-water areas of the Great Lakes as spawning and nursery habitats. Close to 9500 geo-referenced data records (occurrences of fish species) were imported into ArcView GIS. The 139 fish taxa reported in the Atlas had to be grouped into fewer broad categories to produce meaningful distribution maps. We chose three functional classification schemes. Jude and Pappas (1992) used Correspondence Analysis to partition fish species associated with the open water of each of the five Great Lakes and nine coastal wetlands. Three species complexes were suggested: a Great Lakes taxocene; a transitional taxocene, which utilized open water, near-shore, and wetlands; and a wetland taxocene. We chose this as one of the classification schemes because we are particularly interested in identifying the distribution pattern of fish with coastal wetlands; for clarity sake, we have renamed these taxocenes coastal, intermediate and open-water, respectively. For comparison, we also used Coker et al.??s (2001) classification based on temperature preferenda (5 classes) and Balon??s (1975) reproductive guild classification (32 guilds).
Creator
Great Lakes Commission
Subject
Biota
Temporal Coverage
2019
Access Rights
Public
Format
Geodatabase
Language
English
Date Added
June 17, 2024

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    Great Lakes Commission (n.d.). Fish Spawning Locations, Great Lakes Region 2019. . https://www.glc.org/greatlakesgis (dataset)
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