A Naturalist in the Great Lakes Region

Carbon in the Peatlands in the Great Lakes Region

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The Disjunct Coastal Plain Flora in the Great Lakes Region

Three areas in the Great Lakes region are known to harbor species whose primary range is the coastal plain: (1) the southeastern Georgian Bay region of Ontario, (2) the sandplains near Lake Michigan in southwestern Michigan and northern Indiana, and (3) the lacustrine sand deposits in central and northern Wisconsin. Secondary areas with smaller concentrations are found in the southeastern Lake ...

Confronting Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region

Many concerns over global change can be linked to the health and well-being of humans. Our welfare is intimately tied to that of our environment, resource base, and common home. Health effects can be traced from many factors, including changes in water resources, forests, agricultural production, atmosphere, and most other domains that will be affected by climate change. However, here we focus ...

Understanding Dominant Factors for Precipitation over the Great Lakes Region

Statistical modeling of local precipitation involves understanding local, regional and global factors informative of precipitation variability in a region. Modern machine learning methods for feature selection can potentially be explored for identifying statistically significant features from pool of potential predictors of precipitation. In this work, we consider sparse regression, which simul...

Terrestrial Invasive Species of the Great Lakes Region