Metal Contamination Aquatic Ecology of UCFR Waters
Improve knowledge of how metal distribution, abundance, and reactivity influence aquatic species diversity and food web productivity along the UCFR.
Objective 1
Understand sources, sinks, and spatial/temporal patterns of metals in the UCFR main channel and relevant tributaries.
Objective 2
Understand how floodplain land uses interact with irrigation practices, tributaries, and legacy mining to affect metal loads to the UCFR.
Objective 3
Determine how biological processes respond to interactions between metals and nutrients over seasonal time frames among and within Reaches A, B, and C.