| Abstract: | Mark Twain raved about the Mississippi River basin as, ‘the body of the Nation‘. The ‘upper body‘, upstream of the confluence with the Ohio River, includes commercially navigable reaches and branching tributaries that are recreationally and environmentally important. Together they feed and shelter an array of fish and wildlife in their flowing channels, floodplain lakes, backwaters, wetlands, and floodplain forests. Effective river management requires knowledge about factors controlling the dynamics and interactions of important ecosystem components. The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) is the prized diagnostic tool in the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System that provides critical information about the status and trends of key environmental resources. |
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| ProdID: | 97652 |
| Citation Author: | Sauer, Jennifer; Johnson, Barry |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | 4 p. |
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| Citation Public Comments: | A product of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2009-3045 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Taking the Pulse of a River System: Research on the Upper Mississippi River System; 2009; FS; 2009-3045; Sauer, Jennifer; Johnson, Barry |
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| Citation Year: | 2009 |
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| Text: | Taking the Pulse of a River System: Research on the Upper Mississippi River System; 2009; FS; 2009-3045; Sauer, Jennifer; Johnson, Barry |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_2009_3045.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3045/ |
| Date Other: | Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
