2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference

March 13 - 15, 2022

5/23/2018 | 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | CHARACTERIZING THE QUALITY OF GOLF COURSE LENTIC ECOSYSTEMS | 310 A

CHARACTERIZING THE QUALITY OF GOLF COURSE LENTIC ECOSYSTEMS

Golf courses in the United States have potential to play a significant role in maintaining and enhancing local biodiversity – particularly when the adjacent landscape is dominated by anthropogenic land-use and where golf courses contain important habitats, such as lentic ponds or wetland. Turfgrass management practices require significant maintenance costs, and typically involve the use of chemicals that can affect water quality, aesthetics, and native organisms via runoff into surface waters. However, characterizing whether these lentic ecosystems differ in water quality, chemistry or biota to more natural areas is currently understudied. Our objective was to characterize the differences in water quality, nutrients, pesticides, and relative algal abundance across lentic ecosystems in the Chicago Metropolitan area. We quantified these metrics across 55 lentic ecosystems ranging from permanent golf course ponds to permanent, fish-filled ponds within nature preserves to ephemeral fishless wetlands between April to August 2017. We found that permanent lentic systems, whether located within golf courses or more natural forest preserve habitats, were similar across all metrics, but both habitats generally differed from ephemeral wetlands. These data will help elucidate the ecosystem services that golf course lentic ecosystems provide.

Lentic
Nutrients
Urban

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Joseph Milanovich (), Loyola University Chicago, jmilanovich@luc.edu;