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State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference 1998
he third State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference was held on October 21, 22 and 23, 1998 in Buffalo, New York.Two themes discussed at the conference were:
SOLEC Indicator List - a list of indicators is currently being pulled together (from many sources) to be used in determining the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. The indicators will cover a broad spectrum of subject areas such as open waters, near shore waters, coastal wetlands, land by the lakes, socio-economics/land use, stewardship, and human health. The list will be discussed at length at the conference and will continue to be reviewed/modified for a period after SOLEC 98.
Biodiversity Investment Areas - areas that should be protected (or at least increase the awareness of them) because of their unique properties or because of high biodiversity. Three separate regions will be examined: aquatics, coastal wetlands, and land by the lakes.
Final Reports
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State of the Great Lakes -1999 PDF (51 pp., 2.6mb)
Background Papers
- Aquatic Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (51 pp., 1.1mb)
- Coastal Wetlands Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (106pp., 5.7mb)
- Land by the Lakes: Nearshore Terrestrial Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (111pp., 3.9mb)
- Selections of Indicators for Great Lakes Ecosystem Health - Version 3 PDF (221pp., 722kb)
Background Papers by Chapter
- Selections of Indicators for Great Lakes Ecosystem Health - Version 3 PDF (221 pp., 722kb)
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Conference Proceedings PDF (87 pp., 1.0mb)
- The Parties' Perspective PDF (27 pp., 2.7mb) (MP3 audio portions: Mills1 & 2, and Ullrich) (MP3audio portions: Wise 1 & 2, Shimizu)
- Introduction to SOLEC Indicators Process PDF (30 pp., 2.2mb) (MP3audio portions: Bertram)
- Nearshore and Offshore Waters Indicators PDF (32 pp., 3.5mb) (Edsall
- Coastal Wetlands Indicators PDF (30 pp.,2.7mb) (Patterson)
- Nearshore Terrestrial Indicators PDF (33 pp., 2.8mb) (Reid)
- Land use Indicators PDF (23 pp., 217kb) (Rivers)
- Human Health Indicators PDF (21 pp., 1.9mb) (Haines)
- Stewardship Indicators PDF (15pp., 1.6mb) (Baba)
- Shoreline Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (95 pp., 9.7mb) (Rodriguez)
- Coastal Wetland Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (11 pp., 2.8mb) (Chow-Fraser)
- Aquatic Biodiversity Investment Areas PDF (24 pp., 1.1mb) (Morrison)
- Checklist for Biodiversity Areas: Preliminary Selection PDF (27pp., 1mb) (Dodge)
- Newsletter Day 2 PDF (12 pp., 1.4mb)
- Newsletter Day 3 PDF (9pp., 1.7mb)
- Review of the State of the Lakes Ecosystem Conference: 1998, 1999, 1994 PDF (31pp., 410kb)
- 1998 Indicator Project Description PDF (5 pp., 36kb)