Read Fish Community and Food Web Responses to a Whole-Lake Removal of Coarse Woody Habitat (Sass et al., 2006) and prepare answer to the following items that will be discussed in class.

  1. What are the positive aspects of CWH?
  2. What is the primary driver of CWH loss?
  3. Describe the experimental setup?
  4. Explain Figures 3, 4, and 5 and what conclusions were drawn from those results?
  5. What are the take home messages from this study?