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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT Volume 88 Nos. 1—3 October/November 2003 CONTENTS OF VOLUME MONITORING ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CANADA - PART II ASHOK LUMB and T.G. BRYDGES / Preface D.S. JEFFRIES, T.G. BRYDGES, P.J. DILLON and W. KELLER / Monitoring the Results of Canada/U.S.A. Acid Rain Control Programs: Some Lake Responses SHELLEY E. ARNOTT, PETER J. DILLON, KEITH SOMERS and BILL KELLER / Inter- and Intra-annual Chemical Variability During the Ice-Free Season in Lakes with Different Flushing Rates and Acid Deposition Histories W. PILGRIM, T.A. CLAIR, J. CHOATE and R. HUGHES / Changes in Acid Precipi- tation-Related Water Chemistry of Lakes from Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, 1986-2001 SUSAN. E. DOKA, DONALD K. MCNICOL, MARK L. MALLORY, ISAAC WONG, CHARLES K. MINNS and NORMAN D. YAN / Assessing Potential for Recovery of Biotic Richness and Indicator Species due to Changes in Acidic Deposition and Lake pH in Five Areas of Southeastern Canada 53-101 MELANIE A. NEILSON, D.SCOTT PAINTER, GLENN WARREN, RON HITES, ILORA BASU, D.V. CHIP WESELOH, GAVIN CHRISTIE, RICHARD BAR- BIERO, MARC TUCHMAN, ORA JOHANNSSON, TOM NALEPA, TOM EDSALL, GUY FLEISCHER, CHARLES BRONTE, STEPHEN B. SMITH and PAUL C. BAUMANN / Ecological Monitoring for Assessing the State of the Nearshore and Open Waters of the Great Lakes 103-117 HARVEY SHEAR, NANCY STADLER-SALT, PAUL BERTRAM and PAUL HOR- VATIN / The Development and Implementation of Indicators of Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Basin 119-152 A.W. DIAMOND and C. M. DEVLIN / Seabirds as Indicators of Changes in Marine Ecosystems: Ecological Monitoring on Machias Seal Island 153-175 JEAN-LUC DESGRANGES and BENOIT JOBIN / Knowing, Mapping and Under- standing St. Lawrence Biodiversity, with Special Emphasis on Bird Assem- blages 177-192 K. H. MICHAEL KWAN, HING MAN CHAN and YVES DE LAFONTAINE/ Metals Contamination in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) along the St. Lawrence River 193-219 FAISAL KHAN, TAHIR HUSAIN and ASHOK LUMB / Water Quality Evaluation and Trend Analysis in Selected Watersheds of the Atlantic Region of Canada 221-242 DOUGLAS R. HALLIWELL and STEVE CATTO/ How and Why is Aquatic Quality Changing at Nahanni National Park Reserve, NWT, Canada? 243-281 SHAWN K. STATON, A. DEXTRASE, J.L. METCALFE-SMITH, J. DI MAIO, M. NELSON, J. PARISH, B. KILGOUR and E. HOLM /S tatus and Trends of Ontario’s Sydenham River Ecosystem in Relation to Aquatic Species at Risk 283-310 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT Volume 88 Nos. 1—3 October/November 2003 CONTENTS OF VOLUME MONITORING ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN CANADA - PART II ASHOK LUMB and T.G. BRYDGES / Preface D.S. JEFFRIES, T.G. BRYDGES, P.J. DILLON and W. KELLER / Monitoring the Results of Canada/U.S.A. Acid Rain Control Programs: Some Lake Responses SHELLEY E. ARNOTT, PETER J. DILLON, KEITH SOMERS and BILL KELLER / Inter- and Intra-annual Chemical Variability During the Ice-Free Season in Lakes with Different Flushing Rates and Acid Deposition Histories W. PILGRIM, T.A. CLAIR, J. CHOATE and R. HUGHES / Changes in Acid Precipi- tation-Related Water Chemistry of Lakes from Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, 1986-2001 SUSAN. E. DOKA, DONALD K. MCNICOL, MARK L. MALLORY, ISAAC WONG, CHARLES K. MINNS and NORMAN D. YAN / Assessing Potential for Recovery of Biotic Richness and Indicator Species due to Changes in Acidic Deposition and Lake pH in Five Areas of Southeastern Canada 53-101 MELANIE A. NEILSON, D.SCOTT PAINTER, GLENN WARREN, RON HITES, ILORA BASU, D.V. CHIP WESELOH, GAVIN CHRISTIE, RICHARD BAR- BIERO, MARC TUCHMAN, ORA JOHANNSSON, TOM NALEPA, TOM EDSALL, GUY FLEISCHER, CHARLES BRONTE, STEPHEN B. SMITH and PAUL C. BAUMANN / Ecological Monitoring for Assessing the State of the Nearshore and Open Waters of the Great Lakes 103-117 HARVEY SHEAR, NANCY STADLER-SALT, PAUL BERTRAM and PAUL HOR- VATIN / The Development and Implementation of Indicators of Ecosystem Health in the Great Lakes Basin 119-152 A.W. DIAMOND and C. M. DEVLIN / Seabirds as Indicators of Changes in Marine Ecosystems: Ecological Monitoring on Machias Seal Island 153-175 JEAN-LUC DESGRANGES and BENOIT JOBIN / Knowing, Mapping and Under- standing St. Lawrence Biodiversity, with Special Emphasis on Bird Assem- blages 177-192 K. H. MICHAEL KWAN, HING MAN CHAN and YVES DE LAFONTAINE/ Metals Contamination in Zebra Mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) along the St. Lawrence River 193-219 FAISAL KHAN, TAHIR HUSAIN and ASHOK LUMB / Water Quality Evaluation and Trend Analysis in Selected Watersheds of the Atlantic Region of Canada 221-242 DOUGLAS R. HALLIWELL and STEVE CATTO/ How and Why is Aquatic Quality Changing at Nahanni National Park Reserve, NWT, Canada? 243-281 SHAWN K. STATON, A. DEXTRASE, J.L. METCALFE-SMITH, J. DI MAIO, M. NELSON, J. PARISH, B. KILGOUR and E. HOLM /S tatus and Trends of Ontario’s Sydenham River Ecosystem in Relation to Aquatic Species at Risk 283-310 S.L. WALKER, S.C. RIBEY, L. TRUDEL and E. PORTER / Canadian Environmental Effects Monitoring: Experiences with Pulp and Paper and Metal Mining Reg- ulatory Programs MEHRAN ALAEE/ Recommendations for Monitoring of Polybrominated Dipheny| Ethers in the Canadian Environment DAVID A. GAUTHIER and ED B. WIKEN / Monitoring the Conservation of Grass- land Habitats, Prairie Ecozone, Canada SHELLEY E. ARNOTT, BILL KELLER, PETER J. DILLON, NORMAN YAN, MI- CHAEL PATERSON and DAVID FINDLAY / Using Temporal Coherence to Determine the Response to Climate Change in Boreal Shield Lakes D.J. SAUCHYN, B.N. JOSS and W.N. NYIRFA / Sharing the Geo-referenced Results of Climate Change Impact Research 389-397 HAGUE VAUGHAN, GRAHAM WHITELAW, BRIAN CRAIG and CRAIG STEW- ART / Linking Ecological Science to Decision-Making: Delivering Environ- mental Monitoring Information as Societal Feedback 399-408 GRAHAM WHITELAW, HAGUE VAUGHAN, BRIAN CRAIG and DAVID ATKIN- SON / Establishing the Canadian Community Monitoring Network 409-418 ELISABETH G. BEAUBIEN and MRYKA HALL-BEYER / Plant Phenology in Western Canada: Trends and Links to the View from Space 419-429 MARTYN N. FUTTER/ Patterns and Trends in Southern Ontario Lake Ice Phenology 431444 DANIEL W. McKENNEY, ANTHONY A. HOPKIN, KATHY L. CAMPBELL, BRENDAN G. MACKEY and ROBERT FOOTTIT / Opportunities for Im- proved Risk Assessments of Exotic Species in Canada Using Bioclimatic Modeling 445-461