Table of Contents

Editorial
M. Munawar

Preface
E. Mills

Foreword
J. Leach

Physical and Chemical Regime

Physical limnology and hydrometeorological characteristics of Lake Ontario with consideration of climate impacts
W.M. Schertzer

Sedimentary environment of Lake Ontario: Geologic setting, sediment processes, and related environmental issues
J.P. Coakley, C.F.M. Lewis

Long-term seasonal and spatial trends in nutrients, chlorophyll a and light attenuation in Lake Ontario
E.S. Millard, O.E. Johannsson, M.A. Nielson, A.H. El-Shaarawi

Base of the Food-web

Assessing the microbial food web structure in Lake Ontario
M. Munawar, M. Legner, I.F. Munawar

Abundance, biomass, and diversity of planktonic ciliates (Ciliophora) in Lake Ontario
D.H. Lynn, M. Munawar, S. Carou, H. Niblock, P. Humby-Searle

Changes in phytoplankton biomass, composition and primary production of Lake Ontario
M. Munawar, I.F. Munawar

A history of changes in zooplankton community structure and function in Lake Ontario: Responses to whole-lake remediation and exotic invasions
O.E. Johannsson

Mysis relicta in Lake Ontario: Population dynamics, trophic linkages and further questions
O.E. Johannsson, L.G. Rudstam, G. Gal, E.L. Mills

A comparison of egg ratio and optical plankton counter methodologies for estimating zooplankton production: Spatial and temporal trends in Lake Ontario 1991-1997
T.J. Morris, W.G. Sprules

Disruption of the benthic community in Lake Ontario
S.J. Lozano, T.F. Nalepa

Changes in the benthic fauna of Lake Ontario 1990-1995, with local trends after 1981
R. Dermott, M. Geminiuc

Fish Community dynamics

Fish community dynamics of Lake Ontario: Long term trends in the fish populations of eastern Lake Ontario and the Bay of Quinte
J.M. Casselman, K.A. Scott

Spatial and temporal structure in fish distributions: A Lake Ontario case study
L.M. Kracker, L. Zhou, J.M. Jech, J.K. Horne, J.A. Tyler, S.B. Brandt

The offshore fish community in southern Lake Ontario, 1972-1998
R.W. Owens, R. O'Gorman, T.H. Eckert, B.F. Lantry

Biological structure and dynamics of fish assemblages in tributaries of eastern Lake Ontario
J.E. McKenna, Jr.

Resurgence and decline of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) stocks in eastern Lake Ontario, 1972 to 1999
J.A. Hoyle, J.M. Casselman, R. Dermott, T. Schaner

A review of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) restoration in Lake Ontario from an early life history perspective
J. Fitzsimons, B. Lantry, R. O'Gorman

The recreational boat fishery for salmonids in Lake Ontario 1985-1995
T.J. Stewart, J.R. Bowlby, M. Rawson, T.H. Eckert

Invasion of Exotics

Biological invasions in Lake Ontario: Past, present and future
I.C. Duggan, S.A. Bailey, R.I. Colautti, D.K. Gray, J.C. Makarewicz, H.J. MacIsaac

The ecology and impact of the invasion of Lake Ontario by the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussel (D. bugensis)
T.L. Negley, E.L. Mills, B. Baldwin, R. O'Gorman, R.W. Owens

Influence of Dreissena on the benthos and primary production in Lakes Ontario and Erie
R. Dermott, M. Munawar

Contaminants

Monitoring Lake Ontario's waterbirds: contaminants in Herring Gull eggs and population changes in the Lake's nearly 1,000,000 colonial waterbirds
D.V.C. Weseloh, C. Pekarik, R. Joos, J.F. Farquhar, J.L. Shutt, T. Havelka, I. Mazzocchi, G. Barrett, R. McCollough, R.L. Miller, A. Mathers