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URBAN: Development of a Citizen Science Biomonitoring Program Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lyndsay A. Cartwright, Maja Cvetkovic, Spencer Graham, Douglas Tozer & Patricia Chow-Fraser , International Journal of Science Education, Part B (2013)

If you have used the VAPS guide to survey a wetland and would like to generate a WMI score using your vegetation data, download the WMI calculator (below) and enter “1” for every species you found in the wetland.

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The Volunteer Aquatic Plant Survey (VAPS) protocol to monitor health of Great Lakes coastal marshes

Chow-Fraser, P., Croft M., Midwood J., Cvetkovic M. Version 3, September 2011
ECOSYSTEM HEALTH INDEX EXCEL
Wetland Macrophyte Index Calculator
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Use and Development of the Wetland Macrophyte Index to Detect Water Quality Impairment in Fish Habitat of Great Lakes Coastal Marshes.

Croft, M.V. and Chow-Fraser, P. 2007. J. Great Lakes Res. 33 (Special Issue 3): 172-197.
ECOSYSTEM HEALTH INDEX EXCEL
Wetland Fish Index Calculator
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Development and use of the Wetland Fish Index to assess the quality of coastal wetlands in the Laurentian Great Lakes.

Seilheimer, T.S. and Chow-Fraser, P. 2006. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 63: 354-366
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Application of the Wetland Fish Index to Northern Great Lakes Marshes with emphasis on Georgian Bay Coastal Wetlands.

Seilheimer, T.S. and Chow-Fraser, P. 2007. J. Great Lakes Res. 33 (Special Issue 3): 154-171.
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Changes in biomass of benthic and planktonic algae along a disturbance gradient for 24 Great Lakes coastal wetlands.

McNair, S.A., and P. Chow-Fraser. (2003). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60:676-689.