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We compared wading bird use of a newly created 405-ha reactor cooling reservoir (L-Lake) at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, South Carolina, with that of two similar > 25-year-old reservoirs (1130-ha Par Pond and 87-ha Pond B) at the same site. L-Lake was constructed in 1984–1985 and filled in late 1985. Approximately 25% of the shoreline of L-Lake was planted with lacustrine vegetation in early 1987 in an attempt to speed the establishment of a self-sustaining balanced biological community (BBC) at the reservoir. Even so, during the course of our studies, L-Lake had considerably less wetland vegetation,especially floating-leaved species such as yellow nelumbo (Nelumbo luted), than did either of the two older reservoirs.
Work was performed at the University of Georgia’s Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina 29802.
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Bildstein, K.L., Gawlik, D.E., Ferral, D.P., Brisbin, I.L., Wein, G.R. (1994). Wading bird use of established and newly created reactor cooling reservoirs at the Savannah River Site, near Aiken, South Carolina, USA. In: Kerekes, J.J. (eds) Aquatic Birds in the Trophic Web of Lakes. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 96. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1128-7_7
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