Fish activity and movement information derived from acoustic monitoring of a restored Lake Erie coastal wetland from 2011-2014

Description

These data describe estimates of large-bodied fish activity and their direction of movement with respect to a restored wetland located in Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA. Acoustic sonar technology was used to monitor fish activity following restoration and reconnection of a hydrologically isolated wetland pool to the wider Lake Erie system. Fish activity was measured during 56 multi-day observational events spanning four years following reconnection (2011-2014). Each hour of acoustic data was processed as an observational unit using a combination of commercial and purpose-built software. The resulting dataset quantifies fish activity and characterizes this movement as immigration into or emigration out of the restored area for 2,022 hours of observation.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P1NBW3ZR
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6740a4a7d34e565ca5dd5cd2.xml

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  • usgs-6740a4a7d34e565ca5dd5cd2
  • environment
  • multibeam-sonar
  • ottawa-national-wildlife-refuge
  • wetland-ecosystems
  • fish
  • freshwater-ecosystems
  • sonar-methods
  • inlandwaters
  • lake-erie
  • laurentian-great-lakes
  • farming

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