Whole-ecosystem Restoration Through Liming of Acidified Tributary Streams in the Honnedaga Lake Basin in the Adirondack Mountains

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Fuller will collaborate with six other scientists to study the levels of acidity of five tributary streams to Honnedaga Lake in the Adirondack Mountains, and the effects on reproduction of a heritage strain of brook trout in New York. The research team, which includes Cliff Kraft and Don Josephson from Cornell University, Colin Beier and Mark Dovciak of SUNY-ESF, and Barry Baldigo and Greg Lawrence of the US Geological Survey, will characterize soil and stream-water chemistry in the watershed of each stream, along with their plant and animal communities, to assess how acidified soils affect both terrestrial and stream communities.