Table of Contents

Abstract
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
1 Introduction
2 The First Step in a Long-term Data Series: Designing a Monitoring Program for Ohio’s Lake Erie Coastline Fish Community
2.1 Abstract
2.2 Introduction
2.3 Methods
2.3.1 Site Selection
2.3.2 Sampling Method Comparisons
2.3.3 Sampling Effort
2.3.4 Variability of Individual Species
2.4 Results
2.4.1 Sampling Method Comparisons
2.4.2 Sampling Effort
2.4.3 Variability of Individual Species
2.5 Discussion
2.6 Conclusion
3 Impacts of Coastline Vegetation and Armor on Fish Diversity and Occurrences of Individual Fish Species
3.1 Abstract
3.2 Introduction
3.3 Methods………
3.3.1 Data
3.3.2 Statistical Analysis
3.4 Results
3.4.1 Differences in fish species richness
3.4.2 Modeled changes of habitat use
3.5 Discussion
4 Discussion
References