Food‐web structure and ecosystem function in the Laurentian Great Lakes—Toward a conceptual model

JT Ives, BC McMeans, KS McCann, AT Fisk… - Freshwater …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The relationship between food‐web structure (ie, trophic connections, including diet, trophic
position, and habitat use, and the strength of these connections) and ecosystem functions …

Depth gradients in food‐web processes linking habitats in large lakes: L ake S uperior as an exemplar ecosystem

ME Sierszen, TR Hrabik, JD Stockwell… - Freshwater …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In large lakes around the world, depth‐based changes in the abundance and distribution of
invertebrate and fish species suggest that there may be concomitant changes in patterns of …

Investigating the extent of parallelism in morphological and genomic divergence among lake trout ecotypes in Lake Superior

A Perreault‐Payette, AM Muir, F Goetz… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the emergence of species through the process of ecological speciation is a
central question in evolutionary biology which also has implications for conservation and …

[HTML][HTML] Depth and temperature selection of lake charr (Salvelinus namaycush) ecotypes in Lake Superior revealed by popup satellite archival tags

A Jasonowicz, S Sitar, M Seider, F Goetz - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Lake charr exhibit morphological diversity in large North American lakes, largely attributed to
habitat partitioning. Bathythermal habitats of lean lake charr have been assessed but remain …

Habitat

JE Marsden, TR Binder, SC Riley, SA Farha… - The Lake Charr …, 2021 - Springer
Lake charr Salvelinus namaycush habitat is defined by the presence of cold (< 15° C),
oligotrophic, oxygen-rich (> 4 mg L–1) waters where rocky substrates suitable for spawning …

Post‐stocking movement and survival of hatchery‐reared bloater (Coregonus hoyi) reintroduced to Lake Ontario

NV Klinard, JK Matley, EA Halfyard… - Freshwater …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Determining the movement and fate of fishes post‐stocking is challenging due to the
difficulty in monitoring them, particularly immediately after release. Bloater (Coregonus hoyi; …

Habitat use by fishes of Lake Superior. I. Diel patterns of habitat use in nearshore and offshore waters of the Apostle Islands region

OT Gorman, DL Yule… - Aquatic …, 2012 - scholarlypublishingcollective.org
Diel patterns of distribution of fishes in nearshore (15–80 m depth) and offshore (> 80 m)
waters of the Apostle Islands region of Lake Superior were described using bottom trawls …

Guidance for selecting base temperatures when using degree-days in fish growth analyses

AE Honsey, AL Rypel… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Degree-days (DD) are a useful metric for describing the thermal scope for fish growth and
other physiological processes, but there is a lack of advice about how to calculate DD for a …

Niche partitioning among native ciscoes and nonnative rainbow smelt in Lake Superior

CL Rosinski, MR Vinson, DL Yule - Transactions of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Several species of ciscoes Coregonus, subgenus Leucichthys that are native to the
Laurentian Great Lakes are rare or extirpated. The restoration of Coregonus fishes is being …

Food web structure of the Lake Superior fish community in 2021–2022

AN Edwards, SP Sitar, AH Moerke, JP Doubek… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2024 - Elsevier
The trophic linkages and ecological requirements of the Lake Superior fish community have
not been assessed on a whole lake scale in over a decade. Here, we investigated the …