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Bell Lake, Dartmouth

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Contents:


Water Quality

Chemical vs Biological monitoring


Select scientific modelling and chemical/biological limnology are part of our miscellaneous archives!
The bathymetric map; the morphological data; the Cow Bay River watershed flow chart; the paleolimnology of lakes in the HRM


Percent change in urban land use and indicators of stress:

The following excerpt gives a basic overview from a grad theses of a former DFO biologist (cf. Mandell, 1994):

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Remarks on the ecosystem of Bell Lake

Bell Lake has generally been well protected by the former City of Dartmouth and the results are apparent in the pelagic water quality. But as cautioned in the leading scientific literature, pelagic parameters are only a small part for understanding the water quality of a lake (cf. Shallow Lakes).

In addition, an experimental project carried out several years ago by the DFO at Bell and Maynard Lakes concluded that the control brook trout fingerlings survived well in Maynard Lake while the survival rate was poor at Bell Lake!


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