Change detection of wetland vegetation under contrasting water-level scenarios in coastal marshes of eastern Georgian Bay
Prabha Amali Rupasinghe,
Patricia Chow-Fraser
Abstract:Context
Global climate change has resulted in extreme water-level (WL) fluctuations in Eastern Georgian Bay (EGB) and has affected its high-quality wetlands. Beginning in 1999, EGB experienced 14 years of extremely low water levels (Period 1), followed by 6 years of rapidly increasing water levels starting from 2014 (Period 2). During Period 1, trees and shrubs invaded the high marsh, but with inundation, they died out and transitioned into the novel Dead Tree (DT) Zone (DTZ) during Period 2.
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