Seasonal and interannual effects of hypoxia on fish habitat quality in central Lake Erie
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KRISTIN K. AREND* , , DMITRY BELETSKY , JOSEPH V. D EPINTO § , STUART A. LUDSIN , JAMES J . ROBERTS ‡, * * , , DANIEL K. RUCINSKI § , * * , DONALD SCAVIA** , , DAVID J. SCHWAB § § AND TOMAS O. HÖÖK* *Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A. School of Biological Sciences, Lake Superior State University, Sault Ste. Marie, MI, U.S.A. CILER, School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. LimnoTech, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A. SNRE, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A. Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
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