Open AccessHistorical watershed stressors for the Laurentian Great Lakes
Author(s) -
Reavie Euan D.,
Cai Meijun,
Brown Terry N.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
geoscience data journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 11
ISSN - 2049-6060
DOI - 10.1002/gdj3.53
Subject(s) - watershed , stressor , deforestation (computer science) , geography , population , open data , environmental resource management , environmental science , computer science , world wide web , medicine , clinical psychology , demography , machine learning , sociology , programming language
This report provides a detailed set of historical stressor data for 60 watersheds comprising the Laurentian Great Lakes basin. Archival records were transcribed from public records to create quantitative data on human activities: population, mining, deforestation, and agriculture. Yearly records of stressors are provided from 1780 through 2010. These data may be used to track historical impacts on Great Lakes coastal and open water conditions. They may further be used to examine corresponding effects on response variables such as biological communities quantified during monitoring and palaeoecological programmes.