Meeboer Lake

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Grebe Survey Summary

  • Max Adults: 5
  • Year: 1994
  • Most Recent Adults: 5
  • Year: 1994
  • Survey Type: Shore
  • Most Common Threats Reported: N/A
Lake name:
Meeboer Lake
Location:
Wyoming
Latitude:
41.2137968
Longitude:
-105.8209503
Surface area (km2):
0.8
Basin type:
non-reservoir
Primary emergent vegetation:
Scirpus acutus Scirpus americanus
Management agency:
Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Region associations:
Laramie Plains lakes; Mortenson NWR
Comments:
At Laramie Plains lakes, evaporation rates exceed precipitation rates so water levels decline. At one lake, saline soil can salinate water to levels that exceed the ocean. These are not named as specific threats for particular lakes though so was not entered as such. Adjacent to Mortenson B Lake and Mortenson NWR.

Surveys (1)

Survey Citation:
Lawrence, Jean M. 1995. Waterbirds of the Laramie Plains Lakes. M.S. Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Lander, WY.

  • Type
    shore
  • Time period
    9 May 1994, 5 July 1994
  • Source
    Thesis
  • Both Western and Clarks?
    N
Count Type Range Max Year
Max Adults 1 to 100 5 1994
Most Recent Adults 1 to 100 5 1994
Max Nests N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Nests N/A N/A N/A
Max Chicks N/A N/A N/A
Most Recent Chicks N/A N/A N/A

Comments:

This was a waterbird study of Laramie Plains lakes. From Table 1, relative abundance which is the mean number of birds per survey. At Laramie Plains lakes, evaporation rates exceed precipitation rates so water levels decline. At one lake, saline soil can salinate water to levels that exceed the ocean. These are not named as specific threats for particular lakes though so was not entered as such.

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