Lake diatom responses to warming: reviewing the evidence

KM Rühland, AM Paterson, JP Smol - Journal of paleolimnology, 2015 - Springer
Algae, the dominant primary producers in many aquatic ecosystems, are critical to global
biogeochemical cycling, and changes in their abundance and composition can cascade …

The ecological history of Lake Erie as recorded by the phytoplankton community

LE Allinger, ED Reavie - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Lake Erie's water quality has fluctuated since European settlement due to cultural
eutrophication and the effects of invasive species. Our attempts to understand the cause-and …

Extending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basin

JA Dearing, X Yang, X Dong, E Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
In China, and elsewhere, long-term economic development and poverty alleviation need to
be balanced against the likelihood of ecological failure. Here, we show how …

Anadromous alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) contribute marine-derived nutrients to coastal stream food webs

AW Walters, RT Barnes, DM Post - Canadian Journal of …, 2009 - cdnsciencepub.com
Diadromous fish are an important link between marine and freshwater food webs. Pacific
salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) strongly impact nutrient dynamics in inland waters and …

An integrative approach to assess the impact of disturbance on native fish in lakes

G Thomson‐Laing, L Schallenberg, D Kelly… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater fish are in a perilous state with more than 30% of species considered critically
endangered. Yet significant ecological and methodological complexities constrain our ability …

Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers

GM MacDonald, KD Bennett… - Progress in …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding climate change and its potential impact on species, populations and
communities is one of the most pressing questions of twenty-first-century conservation …

Paleoecological studies on variability in marine fish populations: a long-term perspective on the impacts of climatic change on marine ecosystems

BP Finney, J Alheit, KC Emeis, DB Field… - Journal of Marine …, 2010 - Elsevier
The use of historical fishing records to understand relationships between climatic change
and fish abundance is limited by the relatively short duration of these records, and …

Reconstructing fish populations using Chaoborus (Diptera: Chaoboridae) remains–a review

JN Sweetman, JP Smol - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
Fish are an important component of many lakes, and a valuable resource in many countries,
yet knowledge of how fish populations have fluctuated in the past is very limited. One …

Shallow coastal lakes in New Zealand: current conditions, catchment-scale human disturbance, and determination of ecological integrity

DC Drake, D Kelly, M Schallenberg - Hydrobiologia, 2011 - Springer
We present the results of an effort to develop a national-scale predictive model to describe
the current condition of shallow, coastal New Zealand lakes. Comprehensive biological …

Patterns in the distribution of cladocerans (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in lakes across a north–south transect in Alaska, USA

JN Sweetman, JP Smol - Hydrobiologia, 2006 - Springer
The remains of cladocerans were examined from the surface sediments of 51 freshwater
sites along a north–south transect spanning Alaska. We identified 27 cladoceran taxa from …