Generating actionable science to inform sustainable freshwater ecosystem use and shoreline development in Canada in the face of increasing human pressure

大流行引发了人类活动的变化，预计将对环境产生长期影响。对于加拿大的淡水生态系统来说尤其如此，因为有大量人口从城市迁移到更多的农村环境，他们希望建造滨水住宅或“更新”小屋，使其成为全职住宅。休闲划船活动也大幅增加。这些活动有利于短期经济增长，但管理机构难以提供指导和监管决策，以确保生态系统的长期健康和可持续性。这一伙伴关系的目标是产生可用的知识，确保充分管理和减轻与大流行病有关的淡水生态系统压力，确保维持我们的水生系统提供的生态系统服务，以实现长期利益。该项目将解决资源管理者、管理组织、开发商和与1相关的滨水社区所面临的具体挑战。越来越多地使用不同的策略来控制滨水物业前的水生植物生长。2. 对滨水物业的快速需求变化，如海岸线发展和自然栖息地向修剪或观赏栖息地的转变。3. 在靠近海岸线的大型河流和湖泊上增加了船只的使用。卡瓦塔地区保护管理局、里多河谷保护管理局和加拿大公园管理局（安大略省水道集团）都提交了挑战，这些挑战与安大略省东部海岸线开发和水体娱乐利用的内在联系有关。因此，我们与所有这些组织合作，并扩大了团队，包括加拿大野生动物联合会的“爱你的湖泊”计划，以确保我们的发现得到广泛分享。这项研究将为有关海岸线开发和淡水生态系统利用空前加速所带来的挑战的管理决策提供信息。这项研究的重点区域将是特伦特-塞文河和里多河，这两条河在几个小时的车程内都有数百万人居住，但这里所做的工作将与加拿大的淡水生态系统管理更加密切相关。

The pandemic triggered shifts in human activity that are expected to have long-term consequences on the environment. This is particularly true for freshwater ecosystems in Canada given that there has been an exodus from cities to more rural environments with a desire to build waterfront dwellings or "update" cottages to be full time residences. There have also been dramatic increases in recreational boating. Such activities are good for short-term economic growth but management agencies struggle with providing guidance and regulatory decisions that ensure long-term ecosystem health and sustainability. The goal of this partnership is to generate useable knowledge that will ensure that pandemic-related pressures on freshwater ecosystems are adequately managed and mitigated to ensure the ecosystem services provided by our aquatic systems are maintained for long-term benefit. This project will address specific challenges faced by resource managers, stewardship organizations, developers and waterfront communities related to 1. The increased use of different strategies to control aquatic plant growth in front of waterfront properties. 2. The rapid demand for waterfront property changes such as shoreline development and the transition of natural habitats to manicured or ornamental habitats. 3. Increased watercraft use on our large rivers and lakes adjacent to shorelines. The Kawartha Region Conservation Authority, the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority and Parks Canada (Ontario Waterways group) all submitted challenges that were inherently interconnected with a focus on shoreline development and recreational use of waterbodies in eastern Ontario. We have therefore partnered with all of those organizations and expanded the team to include the Love Your Lakes program of the Canadian Wildlife Federation to ensure broad sharing of our findings. This research will inform management decisions concerning the challenge of this unprecedented acceleration of shoreline development and freshwater ecosystem use. The focal area for this research will be in the Trent-Severn and Rideau waterways which each have millions of people within several hours drive but the work done here will be more germane to freshwater ecosystem management in Canada.