Upper Mississippi River Restoration Program Long Term Resource Monitoring

Additional work under LTRM

Hydrogeomorphic Classification and Conceptual Model

Lock closure

• Changes in aquatic vegetation cover following lock closure on the Illinois Waterway from 2019 – 2021

Floodplain forest

• Forest canopy gap dynamics: quantifying forest gaps and understanding gap – level forest regeneration in Upper Mississippi River floodplain forests
  
  
• Forest Landscape Ecology of the Upper Mississippi River Floodplain
  
  
• Ecological Assessment of High Quality Upper Mississippi River System Floodplain Forests
  
  
• Status and trends of floodplain forests on the Upper Mississippi River
  
  
• Developing Indicators of Southern Bottomland Hardwood Forest Condition within the Upper Mississippi River Ecosystem
  
  
• Next generation forest on the Upper Mississippi River floodplain
  
  
• Development of a floodplain forest restoration database for the Upper Mississippi River System: a tool for future coordinated forest management planning
  
  
• Floodplain Forest Data—These data were collected in a survey of the floodplain forests in selected reaches along the Upper Mississippi And Illinois Rivers in summer 1994. The survey was conducted to estimate tree mortality induced by the flood of 1993.

Mussels

• Mussel research plan
  
  
• Development of sampling designs for estimating mussel abundances associated with HREPs
  
  
• Development of survey methods to spatially map mussel assemblages in the Upper Mississippi River System
  
  
• Movement of unionids during a planned water level drawdown in Pool 6 of the Upper Mississippi River

Birds

• Analysis of waterbird data from the Upper Mississippi River System
  
  
• Importance of the Upper Mississippi River Forest Corridor to Neotropical Migratory Birds

Hydraulic modeling

• Development of two-dimensional numerical hydraulic models for Mississippi River Pool 13 and Illinois River La Grange Pool in support of the LTRM
  
  
• Development of two-dimensional Numerical Hydraulic Models for Mississippi River Pools 17 and 18 in Support of the LTRM

Sediment budgets

• A Suspended Sediment Budget for Pool 13 and La Grange Pool of the Upper Mississippi River System

Sedimentation

• Backwater sedimentation rates in Pools 4, 8, and 13

Landscape Ecology

• Landscape Indicators
  • Landscape indicators background information