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Mercury and water level fluctuations in lakes of northern Minnesota - sampling site land cover and inundated area data

August 23, 2021

These data tables summarize land cover classifications, slope measurements, and inundated area estimates for several lakes in northern Minnesota, as part of a larger project seeking to identify associations between young-of-year Yellow Perch mercury content and water level metrics, temperature, and annual deposition data in a multivariate analysis. One table presents inundated area estimates for a range of water surface elevations in 0.1 meter increments between a range of seasonal minimum and maximum water surface elevation values. The other table summarizes the percent cover and number of hectares of each land cover class within a specified buffered area around each study sampling site, along with a measure of the overall net change and standard deviation of slope within the buffered area.

Publication Year 2021
Title Mercury and water level fluctuations in lakes of northern Minnesota - sampling site land cover and inundated area data
DOI 10.5066/P96TWNJL
Authors Enrika J Hlavacek, James H Larson
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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