Coastal Wetland Support of Great Lakes Fisheries: Progress from Concept to Quantification

摘要: AbstractFishery support is recognized as a valuable ecosystem service provided by aquatic systems, but it harder to quantify than describe conceptually. In this paper, we combine data on fish inhabiting Great Lakes coastal wetlands (GLCWs) with information commercial and recreational harvest the piscivore forage base develop quantitative understanding of multiple species involved in direct indirect fishery complex fishery. We then examine patterns co-occurrence life history relationships GLCW conditions order identify metrics useful aggregating evaluating management outcomes. Our criteria for wetland prevalence (≥10% occurrence) importance (≥1% or one more having major role) yielded 21 wetland-using, fishery-relevant representing taxonomic groups attributes. Wetland-using specie...