Walker Lake Benthic Invertebrate Research

Continue to track benthic community ecology to assess health, diversity and productivity of Walker Lake, define food web interactions and changes over time, Follow between-year variations in thermal environment expressed as degree days of development time and altered population phenology, devine conditions when Hyalella could recover, establish patterns for the abundance of benthic algae that provide the base of the littoral food web, what water birds are using the nearshore lake environment and what feeding activity is apparent.