A shoreline divided: Twelve-year water quality and land cover trends in Lake Ontario coastal wetlands

Water quality in Great Lakes coastal wetlands has been studied for decades, but few studies look at water quality changes in multiple sites over many years and relate that to land cover. In this study, water quality at 22 sites in two regions along the north shore of Lake Ontario (Bay of Quinte in the east and Durham Region in the west) was compared over a period of 12years (2003–2014) and related to land cover data from two time periods …