North America Lake Biodiversity Conservation Priorities
| NAME | MAP ID | COUNTRY | ||
| Bear | 1 | USA | ||
| Catahoula | 2 | USA | ||
| Reed | 3 | CANADA | ||
| Devil's Lake | 4 | USA | ||
| Dewey Soper | 5 | CANADA | ||
| Erie | 6 | CANADA, US | ||
| Great Salt Lake | 7 | USA | ||
| Huron | 8 | CANADA, US | ||
| Lac Saint Pierre | 9 | CANADA | ||
| Michigan | 10 | USA | ||
| Mono | 11 | USA | ||
| Ontario | 12 | CANADA, US | ||
| Quill Lakes | 13 | CANADA | ||
| Superior | 14 | CANADA, US | ||
| Tule | 15 | USA | ||
| Salton Sea | 16 | US | ||
| Redberry | 17 | CANADA | ||
| Tahoe | 18 | USA | ||
| Rosa | 19 | BAHAMAS | ||
| Great Slave | 20 | CANADA | ||
| Teshekpuk | 21 | USA | ||
| Old Crow Flats | 22 | CANADA | ||
| Based on L. Duker (2003) Biodiversity Conservation of the World's Lakes (revised) | ||||
In 2001, as part of “Report Series
2: Biodiversity Conservation of the World’s Lakes: A Preliminary Framework for
Identifying Priorities”, LakeNet identified 250 lakes in 73 countries as
initial priorities for biodiversity conservation based on available data on
fish, mollusc, crab, shrimp, and bird biodiversity supported by each lake, and
the rarity of certain representative types of lakes.
Identified lakes are both fresh and saline, permanent and seasonal,
natural and man-made.
LakeNet’s North America Lake Biodiversity Conservation
Priorities are based on a 2003 revision of the initial list of 250 priority
lakes based on feedback and newly available information from the Ramsar Bureau,
LakeNet’s global network of individual and organizations in over 90 countries,
and other reliable sources. The 2003 revision seeks to begin to rectify
the bias in the first study toward European lakes (where more key lakes have
been added to Ramsar) and the relative dearth of highly biodiverse lakes in
developing countries due to insufficient biodiversity data.