water Article
Effects of Local Weather Variation on Water-column Stratification and Hypoxia in the Western, Sandusky, and Central Basins of Lake Erie Melanie M. Perello 1, *,† , Douglas D. Kane 1,2 , Phoenix Golnick 1,‡ , Maya C. Hughes 1,§ , Matt A. Thomas 1 and Joseph D. Conroy 3, k 1
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Franz Theodore Stone Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Put-In-Bay, OH 43456, USA;
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[email protected] (M.A.T.) Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division, Defiance College, Defiance, OH 43512, USA Limnology Laboratory, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA;
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Academic Editor: Maria Filomena Camões Received: 8 February 2017; Accepted: 9 April 2017; Published: 16 April 2017
Abstract: Hypoxia, low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations (
