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Food abundance and energetic carrying capacity for wintering waterfowl in the Great Salt Lake wetlands

Creator:

Johnson, Amber Marie

Abstract:

Great Salt Lake (GSL), Utah, is surrounded by 191,884 hectares of wetlands. These wetlands provide critical habitat for hundreds of thousands of breeding, migrating and wintering waterfowl each year. As the human population around GSL increases, government officials have proposed to divert more water from the Jordan, Ogden, and Bear...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Selenium and trace metal accumulation in detrital-benthic food webs of lotic and lentic wetlands, Utah, USA

Creator:

Hillwalker, Wendy E.

Abstract:

Concentrations of selenium (Se), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) were measured in the water column, sediment and biota, in conjunction with selected physicochemical data, from representative wetland types at a mining site within Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. The selected field sites included Oolitic...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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representative wetland types at a mining site within Salt Lake County, Utah, USA. The selected field sites