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Silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) is a fast-growing, flood-tolerant species common in bottomland forests of eastern North America. Tree-ring research on silver maple is limited due to the species’ relatively short lifespan and reputation for indistinct rings. The wood anatomy of silver maple is characterized by a diffuse-porous ring structure with small, uniformly distributed vessels...

The Illinois River receives nutrients from point and non-point runoff from upstream urban and agricultural areas. These excess nutrients could be contributing to harmful algal blooms in the Illinois River and its tributaries. The Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program has been monitoring water quality on the La Grange Pool in the Illinois River since 1993. The data collected from...

This data release includes 1) results from intact sediment core experiments to measure nutrient release and uptake from sediments in the Maumee River mouth and adjacent nearshore areas. 2) physical and chemical properties of sediments sampled at the same sites where sediments were collected for intact core experiments, plus additional sites in the area. 3) Results of water column...

Estimating individual age is important for defining the structure of fish populations (i.e., recruitment, growth, and mortality), including the assessment of many management objectives. Knowledge of the relative precision of age estimates using standard calcified structures is required to estimate the age of Grass Carp. Therefore, our objective was to evaluate the precision of annuli...

This study aimed to assess the toxicity of a commercially available pyrethrum pesticide to virile crayfish (Faxonius virilis, Hagen 1870), which were exposed for 24-h intervals during 96-h tests at two different temperatures. Adult virile crayfish were used in trials as proxy for red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii, Girard 1852) to represent a conservative estimate of potency of...

This dataset represents elevation data of the beach topography and near-shore bathymetry before placing dredge spoils on the beach at Minnesota Point near the Duluth Entry of Lake Superior, Duluth, Minnesota. The data was acquired using a lidar sensor, single-beam and multibeam sonars. The dataset includes DEMs of the terrestrial beach areas and topobathy (combined terrestrial and...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, 2010, caused extensive injury to natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico, and Gavia immer (common loon) were negatively affected from the spill. The Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group funded the project Restoration of Common Loons in Minnesota to restore common loons lost to the spill. In 2020–2021, study lakes in a seven-county region in...

The data includes 1) results of a preliminary pilot study to evaluate six materials for use as benthic mats in open water control of invasive mussels and 2) a definitive study to evaluate the effects of 10-, 20-, and 30-day treatment with plastic and polyvinyl benthic mats on zebra mussel and native juvenile mussel survival and benthic macroinvertebrate diversity and abundance. The study...

The study compared the survival of quagga mussels after a 4 to 5-day treatment with carbon dioxide infusion under a mat and a 30-day treatment under canvas and polyvinyl benthic mats. The study was conducted in Good Harbor Bay, Leelanau County, Michigan. The data include water quality (dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, conductivity) and water chemistry (alkalinity and hardness), quagga...

This dataset accompanies the article "Estimating seasonal and monthly movement rates of invasive silver carp with a temporally variable hidden Markov model". The data come from the experimental capture and tagging of invasive silver carp with acoustic transmitters. These transmitters emit signals that are detected and recorded on receivers that are strategically placed above, within, and...

The data were collected as part of a study using underwater cameras to describe fish habitat preferences under the ice in four backwaters located in Pools 7 and 8 on the Upper Mississippi River. The dataset contains both environmental data and fish abundance data. The environmental data were collected at each site to describe the conditions and water quality at the time of sampling. The...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission sea lamprey program is concerned with the risk of lampricide applications to non-target animals, especially those of conservation concern. Conneaut Creek (Ohio and Pennsylvania) is routinely treated for larval sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) and contains a population of salamander mussels, which has been proposed for listing as federally endangered by...