Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Subject Waterfowl -- Utah -- Great Salt Lake -- Food

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
Historic attempts to cope with level variability of Great Salt Lake, Utah: a case study in social and environmental relationships

Creator:

Richards, Paul C.

Abstract:

The Great Salt Lake is typical of Great Basin and other arid land saline lakes in morphological and chemical characteristics. As with other terminal lakes, the level of Great Salt Lake is determined by the variable weather patterns that are typical of arid and semi-arid regions. Because of it's flat,...

Resource Type:

Capstone Project

Full Text:

complex on the Great Salt Lake. Master of Architecture Thesis. University of Utah. Arnow, Ted. 1980
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

Full Text:

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