Cumulative Effects of Incremental Shoreline Habitat Modification on Fish Assemblages in North Temperate Lakes

Emulation of natural disturbance (END) for riparian forest management: synthesis and recommendations

“…The Stand and Site Guide requires retention of 10 dominant or codominant trees/100 m of clearcut shoreline to provide future inputs of coarse woody (Christensen et al 1996, Jennings et al 1999, Mallory et al 2000, Steedman et al 2004, Sass et al 2006, 2) estimates of the annual input of coarse wood required to balance losses to decay based on mean residence time of coarse wood (Tyrrell andCrow 1994, Guyette et al 2002), and 3) estimates of the volume of wood that may actually fall into water from trees retained along shorelines based on distance from shore and the likelihood that trees fall toward the water (Robison and Beschta 1990, Bragg et al 2000, Welty et al 2002. The Stand and Site Guide specifies that, ideally, retained trees should be within ½ tree height of water and leaning toward the water.…”

Natural and Human Influences on Fish Species Richness in Small North Temperate Lakes: Implications for Bioassessment

“…All sampling stations were randomly selected. The data approximate a presence/absence census of community composition for each lake (Jennings et al 1999). …”

“…Adjustments are required to account for differences expected among groups of lakes defined by characteristics such as size, depth, water chemistry, and landscape position . One of the principal challenges to successful application of a lake IBI is documenting and accounting for the strong influence of these natural features on assemblage structure (Jennings et al 1999, Whittier and Hughes 1998, Drake 2007. Successful application of the IBI model to lakes requires a clear understanding of processes structuring lake assemblages, and specifically, an understanding of how natural processes and anthropogenic processes interact.…”

Integrating applied lake ecology into spatial planning: towards a socially acceptable lakeshore restoration at Lake Velence (Hungary)

“…hydromorphological changes, artificial shoreline stabilization, urban development, sediment removal, waterlevel control), on one biological taxonomic group. The shoreline stabilization of different types (mainly reinforced concrete structures, and/or using rip rap stones) are typically colonised with new vegetation-and animalspecies, their diversity fall often short of that on natural shores (Entz -Sebestyén, 1942;Gabriel -Bodensteiner, 2012;Jennings et al 1999). In some cases the artificial shoreline stabilization works when assessed separately, may as well provide advantageous habitat conditions for some animal species, in other cases, however, when evaluating shore regulation at lake-wide scales, the reduced biodiversity of habitats tends towards a disadvantageous process for the total ecosystem (Brauns et al, 2007;Lange, 1999).…”