Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Marcus Beck

Master's
Email: beckx266@umn.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Marcus W. Beck, Bruce Vondracek, Lorin K. Hatch. 2013. Between- and within-lake responses of macrophyte richness metrics to shoreline development. Lake and Reservoir Management 29 (3):179–193. | Abstract August 2013
Beck, M. W., B. Vondracek, and L. K. Hatch. 2013. Environmental clustering of lakes to evaluate performance of a macrophyte index of biotic integrity. Aquatic Botany 108:16–25. | Abstract July 2013
Presentations Presentation Date
Vondracek, B., J. D. Koch, and Marcus W. Beck. A comparison of survey methods to evaluate macrophyte index of biotic integrity performance in Minnesota lakes. Minnesota Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. March 2013
Beck, M., B. Vondracek, and L. Hatch. 2012. Image analysis techniques to evaluate effects of lakeshore development on aquatic habitat. Minnesota Water Resources Conference, 16-17 October 2012, St. Paul, Minnesota. October 2012
Beck, M., B. Vondracek, and L. Hatch. 2012. Image analysis techniques to evaluate effects of nearshore lake development on aquatic macrophytes. 142nd Annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society, 19-23 August 2012, St. Paul, Minnesota. August 2012
Beck, M., B. Vondracek, and L. Hatch. 2011. Image analysis techniques to evaluate effects of nearshore lake development on aquatic macrophytes. 72nd Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, 4-7 December 2011, Des Moines, Iowa. December 2011
Beck, M. W, B. Vondracek, B. Wilson, and L. Hatch. Evaluating the utility of a plant-based index of lake condition using neural networks. 98th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America August 2013