The Nature Conservancy’s Emiquon Preserve Fish and Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring 2017 Field Report

Mendenhall, Olivea M.; Solomon, Levi E.

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Description

Title

The Nature Conservancy’s Emiquon Preserve Fish and Aquatic Vegetation Monitoring 2017 Field Report

Author(s)

• Mendenhall, Olivea M.
• Solomon, Levi E.

Issue Date

2018-10-03

Keyword(s)

• Floodplain Restoration
• Illinois River
• Backwater
• Fish
• Vegetation

Geographic Coverage

Emiquon Preserve, Illinois

Abstract

For the 2017 field season, The Emiquon Preserve continues to maintain a healthy population of fish with a continual dominance of native fish. Native submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) is still abundant even though non-nati ve SAV exceeds the established goal. There is little indication currently that non-native species are becoming dominant or degrading environmental conditions. Of 19 relevant Key Ecological Attributes (KEA), 15 were evaluated and four were not measured. Of the 15 KEA’s measured, ten goals were met and five were not met in 2017 through standardized monitoring of the fish and aquatic vegetation communities.

Publisher

Illinois Natural History Survey

Series/Report Name or Number

Technical Report INHS 2018 (33)

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

The Nature Conservancy contract number CO7-33

Copyright and License Information

This document is a product of the Illinois Natural History Survey, and has been selected and made available by the Illinois Natural History Survey and the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is intended solely for noncommercial research and educational use, and proper attribution is requested.

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