EESA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lake Huron, Great Lakes, Lake Superior
1 Aug 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lake erie is the smallest of the great lakes in volume and is exposed to the greatest effects from urbanization and agriculture. Invasive species such as zebra mussels or sea lamprey. Maintaining water levels in the face of global warming. The pressure to export water out of the great lakes water shed: explain the demotechnic concept. The demotechnic concept is the combined effect of population as well as of production-consumption in a technological sense. Warm climates (no frosts: explain why organisms do not dominate the ecosystems in their native country. Change to ecosystem, in which even a whole food web can change. Domination of ecosystems by an introduced species is an extreme case. Lake superior to michigan connected by st. marys river. Lake huron to erie, connected by st. clair river. Lake erie to ontario, connected by niagara falls: explain the two major mechanisms of entry for invasive species. Unintentional releases like plants and smaller animals for catching fish etc.
