The bibliography consists of 419 citations of wildlife material pertaining to the aquatic ecosystem of Lake Erie, in the North American Great Lakes. Many of the citations are annotated. Information is included on birds, mammals, herpetofauna and aquatic vegetation. The references were derived from published literature, as well as government documents and unpublished reports.

After an introduction on the threat posed by acid rain on wildlife and wildlife habitat, and a review of the Canadian Wildlife Service Long Range Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants (CWS LRTAP) Program, this publication presents a bibliography of scientific papers, theses, technical publications, and conference presentations on the acid rain/wildlife problem. In the first section of the bibliography (covering publications), citations are arranged in alphabetical order by author, by year of publication. The second section of the bibliography lists unpublished reports and the third lists conference presentations. This is followed by complete and detailed annotations of CWS Ontario Region LRTAP Program publications cited in the first two sections. The annotations include information on the purpose of the study, methods, results, and conclusions, plus keywords and a selected bibliography.

The International Joint Commission, which is charged with improving the environmental quality of the Great Lakes, has designated for specific remedial actions 43 Areas of Concern (AOCs) where the aquatic environment has been most severely degraded. This report summarizes information gathered over the past 28 years on the amount and timing of use by waterfowl in seven of those 43 AOCs (those AOCs in Canada along the southern Great Lakes which contain important habitat for staging waterfowl). It also provides comparable information on other important areas along the Great Lakes shore from the Bruce Peninsula to the Quebec border. In addition, a brief description of the nutritional and other habitat requirements of staging waterfowl is included. Information presented include habitat use by taxonomic group, overall trends, waterfowl counts by group, and survey sampling dates.

Contains information on the locations, methods, and timing of the collections of samples of prey of resident waterfowl from the littoral zones of 62 lakes and wetlands in the Algoma, Muskoka, and Sudbury regions of Ontario. The specimens are being collected as part of the Food Chain Monitoring Program (FCMP) of the Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants (LRTAP) Biomonitoring Program. The prey sampled includes macroinvertebrates, fish, and amphibians, many of which are acid-sensitive and absent from lakes degraded by acid precipitation. The FCMP will detect changes in the composition and abundance of major prey as damaged aquatic ecosystems recover from the effects of acid precipitation as a result of emission abatement programs. The report also summarises the invertebrate, fish, and amphibian taxa collected 1987-94, along with the locations of the collections, taxonomic keys used for identification, and minimum pH at which the specimens were caught.

The Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants (LRTAP) Biomonitoring Program conducts broad-scale surveys on over 600 wetlands and lakes in north-east Ontario and 46 lakes in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, to monitor the chemical and biotic response of sensitive aquatic ecosystems to reduced inputs of acidifying emissions. An important part of this program, the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey (CLLS), uses a network of volunteers to assess the breeding success of common loons (a key indicator species) on larger lakes across Canada. This report describes the Biomonitoring Program's study design and components, study areas, and data collection and characterisation procedures, and includes detailed physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the biomonitoring study lakes and their locations. Information is also provided for a subset of more intensively studied Food Chain Monitoring Program lakes and CLLS lakes.

"During the 1990 breeding season, an inventory was made of Double-crested Cormorants(phalacrocorax auritus), Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis), Herring Gull (L. argentatus),Great Black-backed Gulls (L.. marinus), Common Terns (Sterna hirundo), and Caspian Terns (S. caspia) that nested in the Canadian portions of the lower Great Lakes system ( ie. Detroit River, Lake Erie, Niagara River, Lake Ontario, and the St-Lawrence River downstream to Cornwall, Ontario; Fig. 1)"--Abstract.

The purposes of this paper are (1) to continue from Dobos et al. (1988) and provide an update on the status of colonial waterbird breeding populations at Hamilton Harbour (1988-1994), (2) to describe how human changes to the landscape, together with natural succession and interspecific competition have affected nest distributions in the Harbour, (3) to report the results of conservation efforts for Common and Caspian Terns and of control efforts for Ring-billed Gulls, and (4) to provide a framework for making effective decisions regarding the future of colonial waterbirds nesting at Hamilton Harbour.