Publications

Lapierre, J.F., K.E. Webster, E. Hanks, T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno, I.M. McCullough, K.L. Reinl, M. Domka, and N.R. Lottig. In press. A continuous classification of the 480,000 lakes of the conterminous US based on geographic archetypes. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12457

Rodriguez, L.K., S.M. Polus, D.I. Matuszak, M.R. Domka, P.J. Hanly, Q. Wang, P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2023. LAGOS-US RESERVOIR: A database classifying conterminous U.S. lakes 4 hectares and larger as natural lakes or reservoir lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 8(2):267-285.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10299

Cheruvelil, K.S., K.E. Webster, K.B. King, A.C. Poisson, and T. Wagner. 2022. Taking a macroscale perspective to improve understanding of shallow lake total phosphorus and chlorophyll a. Hydrobiologia. 849: 3663–3677 (2022) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-022-04811-1

Stachelek, J., Hanly, P.J., Soranno, P.A. 2022. Imperfect slope measurements drive overestimation in geometric cone model of lake and reservoir depth. Inland Waters 12(2): 283-293 https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2021.2006553

Webster, K.E., I.M. McCullough, and P.A. Soranno 2022. Deeper by the dozen: Diving into a database of 17,675 depths for U.S. lakes and reservoirs. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, 31: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10482

King, K. B. S., Wang, Q., Rodriguez, L. K., and Cheruvelil, K. S. 2021. Lake networks and connectivity metrics for the conterminous U.S. (LAGOS-US NETWORKS v1). Limnology and Oceanography Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10204

Cheruvelil, K. S., Soranno, P. A., McCullough, I. M., Webster, K. E., Rodriguez, L. K., & Smith, N. J. 2021. LAGOS-US LOCUS v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous U.S. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10203

Dahlin, K.M., P.L. Zarnetske, Q.D. Read, L.A. Twardochleb, A.G. Kamoske, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno. 2021. Linking terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity to ecosystem function across scales, trophic levels, and realms. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: e692401. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.692401

Deemer, B.R., S. Hotaling, K. Poulson-Ellestad, L.J. Falkenberg, J.E. Cloern, P.A. Soranno. 2021. Viewpoint: Engaging the next generation of editorial talent through a hands-on fellowship model. Ecology Letters 24(7): 1297-1301. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13758

Soranno, Patricia A., John A. Downing, Teresa L. Curto. 2021. Editorial: Founding Limnology & Oceanography Letters: the challenges, risks, and rewards of launching a new scientific journal. Limnology & Oceanography Letters. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10182

Stachelek, J., Weng, W., Carey, C.C., Kemanian, A.R., Cobourn, K.M., Wagner, T., Weathers, K.C., Soranno, P.A., 2020. Granular measures of agricultural land-use influence lake nitrogen and phosphorus differently at macroscales. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2187

Liang, Zhongyao, Patricia A. Soranno, Tyler Wagner. 2020. The role of phosphorus and nitrogen on chlorophyll a: Evidence from hundreds of lakes. Water Research 185:116236 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116236.

Soranno, P.A.*, K.S. Cheruvelil*, B. Liu, Q. Wang, P.-N. Tan, J. Zhou, K.B.S. King, I.M. McCullough, J Stachelek, M. Bartley, C.T. Filstrup, E.M. Hanks, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2020. Ecological prediction at macroscales using big data: does sampling design matter? Ecological Applications. https://doi-org.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/10.1002/eap.2123 

McCullough, I.M., King, K.B.S., Stachelek, J., Diaz, J., Soranno P.A. and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. Applying the patch-matrix model to lakes: a connectivity-based conservation framework. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00915-7

Soranno, P.A., K.E. Webster, N.J. Smith, J. Diaz Vazquez, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2020. What’s in a “lake” name? That which we call a lake by any other name. Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin 29(1):1-7. Open Access

Wagner, T., N.R. Lottig, M.L. Bartley, E.M. Hanks, E.M. Schliep, N.B. Wikle, K.B.S. King, I. McCullough, J. Stachelek, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.T. Filstrup, J.-F. Lapierre, B. Liu, P.A. Soranno, P.-N. Tan, Q. Wang, K.E. Webster, J. Zhou. 2020. Increasing accuracy of lake nutrient predictions in thousands of lakes by leveraging water clarity data. Limnology & Oceanography Letters 5(2):228-235. https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lol2.10134

Filstrup, C. T., King, K. and I. M. McCullough. 2019. Evenness effects mask richness effects on ecosystem functioning at macro-scales in lakes. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13407

Cheruvelil, K.S., A. De Palma-Dow, and K. Smith. 2020. Strategies to promote effective student research teams in undergraduate biology labs. American Biology Teacher 82: 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2020.82.1.18

Poulson-Ellestad K., S. Hotaling, L.J. Falkenberg, P.A. Soranno. 2020. Illuminating a black box of the peer review system: demographics, experiences, and career benefits of associate editors. Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin. 29(1):11-17.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10362

Poisson, A.C., I.M. McCullough, K.S. Cheruvelil, K.C. Elliott, J.A. Latimore, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Quantifying the contribution of citizen science to broad-scale ecological databases. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(1):19-26. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2128

McCullough, I.M., N.K. Skaff, P.A. Soranno, and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. No lake left behind: How well do U.S. protected areas meet lake conservation targets? Limnology & Oceanography Letters 4(6):183-192. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10123

Soranno, P.A., T. Wagner, S.M. Collins, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation of ecosystem properties at macroscales. Ecology Letters 22(10): 1587-1598. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13346

Settles, I.H., S.T. Brassel, P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil, G.M. Montgomery, and K.C. Elliott. 2019. Team climate mediates the effect of diversity on environmental science team satisfaction and data sharing. PlosONE 14(7):
e0219196. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219196

King, K., K.S. Cheruvelil, and A. Pollard. 2019. Drivers and spatial structure of abiotic and biotic properties of lakes, wetlands, and streams at the national scale. Ecological Applications 29(7): e01957. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1957

De Palma-Dow, A. and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. The relative roles of dispersal and establishment for shaping whole-lake aquatic macrophyte richness, diversity, and community structure in hemiboreal lakes. Inland Waters 9(1):35-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2018.1522224.

McCullough, I.M., K.S. Cheruvelil, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, M.A. Moritz, J. Stachelek, P.A. Soranno. 2019. Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental U.S. Global Change Biology 25(9): 2841-2854. http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14732

Qian, S.S., C.A. Stow, A.F. Nojavan, J. Stachelek, Y. Cha, I. Alameddine, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. The implications of Simpson’s paradox for cross-scale inference among lakes. Water Research 163: e114855.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.114855

Stachelek, J. and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Does freshwater connectivity influence phosphorus retention in lakes? Limnology and Oceanography. 64(4): 1586-1599. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11137

Stanley, E.H., S.M. Collins, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, K.E. Webster, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Biases in lake water quality sampling and implications for macroscale research. Limnology & Oceanography. 64(4):1572-1585. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11136

Soranno, P.A. 2019. Six simple steps to share your data when publishing research articles. Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin. 28(2):41-44.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10303

Collins, S.M., Yuan, S., Tan, P.N., Oliver, S.K., Lapierre, J.F., Cheruvelil, K.S., Fergus, C.E., Skaff, N.K., Stachelek, J., Wagner, T., Soranno, P.A. 2019. Winter precipitation and summer temperature predict lake water quality at macroscales. Water Resources Research 55(4): 2708-2721.  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023088

McCullough, I. M., Cheruvelil, K. S., Collins, S. C. and P. A. Soranno. 2019. Geographic patterns of the climate sensitivity of lakes. Ecological Applications 29(2):e01836. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1836

Bartley, M. L., Hanks, E. M., Schliep, E. M., Soranno, P. A., & Wagner, T. 2019. Identifying and characterizing extrapolation in multivariate response data. PloS one, 14(12), e0225715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225715

Cheruvelil, K.S. and P.A. Soranno. 2018. Data-intensive ecological research is catalyzed by open science and team science. BioScience. 68(10):813-822. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy097

Seekell, D., J.-F. Lapierre, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2018. The geography of lake carbon cycling. Limnology & Oceanography Letters 3: 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10078 

Lapierre, J.-F., Collins, S.M., Seekell, D.A., Cheruvelil, K.S., Skaff, N.K., Taranu, Z.E., Fergus. C.E., Tan. P.-N. and Soranno P.A. 2018. Similarity in spatial structure constrains ecosystem relationships: Building a macroscale understanding of lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(10):1251-1263. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12781

Cobourn, K.M., C.C. Carey, K.J. Boyle, C. Duffy, H.A. Dugan, K.J. Farrell, L. Fitchett, P.C. Hanson, J.A. Hart, V.R. Henson, A.L. Hetherington, A.R. Kemanian, L.G. Rudstam, L. Shu, P.A. Soranno, M.G. Sorice, J. Stachelek, N.K. Ward, K.C. Weathers, W. Weng, Y. Zhang. 2018. From concept to practice to policy: modeling coupled natural and human systems in lake catchments. Ecosphere 9(5):e02209.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2209

Oliver, S.K. C.E. Fergus, N.K. Skaff, T. Wagner, P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno. 2018. Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science. Ecosphere 9(4):e02206. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2206

Stow, C.A., K.E. Webster, T. Wagner, N.R. Lottig, P.A. Soranno, and Y-K. Cha. 2018. Small values in big data: The continuing need for appropriate metadata. Ecological Informatics 45:26-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.03.002

Settles, I.H., S.T. Brassel, G.M. Montgomery, K.C. Elliott, P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2018. Missing the mark: A new form of honorary authorship motivated by desires for inclusion. Innovative Higher Education 43(4):303-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-018-9429-z

Lottig, N., P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno, E. Stanley, C. Scott, C. Stow, S. Yuan. 2017. Macroscale patterns of synchrony identify complex relationships among spatial and temporal ecosystem drivers. Ecosphere 8(12):e02024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2024

Yuan, S., J. Zhou, P.N. Tan, C.E. Fergus, T. Wagner, T., P.A. Soranno. 2017. Multi-Level Multi-Task Learning for Modeling Cross-Scale Interactions in Nested Geospatial Data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 18-21 (2017).

Soranno, P.A., L.C. Bacon, M. Beauchene, K.E. Bednar, E.G. Bissell, C.K. Boudreau, M.G. Boyer, M.T. Bremigan, S.R. Carpenter, J.W. Carr, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, M. Claucherty, S.M. Collins, J.D. Conroy, J.A. Downing, J. Dukett, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, C. Funk, M.J. Gonzalez, L.T. Green, C. Gries, J.D. Halfman, S.K. Hamilton, P.C. Hanson, E.N. Henry, E.M. Herron, C. Hockings, J.R. Jackson, K. Jacobson-Hedin, L.L. Janus, W.W. Jones, J.R. Jones, C.M. Keson, K.B.S. King, S.A. Kishbaugh, J.-F. Lapierre, B. Lathrop, J.A. Latimore, Y. Lee, N.R. Lottig, J.A. Lynch, L.J. Matthews, W.H. McDowell, K.E.B. Moore, B.P. Neff, S.J. Nelson, S.K. Oliver, M.L. Pace, D.C. Pierson, A.C. Poisson, A.I. Pollard, D.M. Post, P.O. Reyes, D.O. Rosenberry, K.M. Roy, L.G. Rudstam, O. Sarnelle, N.J. Schuldt, C.E. Scott, N.K. Skaff, N.J. Smith, N.R. Spinelli, J.J. Stachelek, E.H. Stanley, J.L. Stoddard, S.B. Stopyak, C.A. Stow, J.M. Tallant, P.-N. Tan, A.P. Thorpe, M.J. Vanni, T. Wagner, G. Watkins, K.C. Weathers, K.E. Webster, J.D. White, M.K. Wilmes, S. Yuan. In press. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. Gigascience 6(12).  https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix101

Skaff, N. K., Armstrong, P. M., Andreadis, T. G., & Cheruvelil, K. S. 2017. Wetland characteristics linked to broad-scale patterns in Culiseta melanura abundance and eastern equine encephalitis virus infection. Parasites & Vectors 10:501. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2482-0

Resnik, D.B., K.C. Elliott, P.A. Soranno, and E.M. Smith. 2017. Data-intensive science and research integrity. Accountability in Research. 24(6):344-358. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2017.1327813

Fergus, C.E., J.-F. Lapierre, S.K. Oliver, N. Skaff, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno, K.E. Webster, C. Scott. 2017. The freshwater landscape: Lake, wetland, and stream abundance and connectivity at macroscales. Ecosphere 8(8):e01911  doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1911. Open Access

Oliver, S.K., S.M. Collins, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner, E.H. Stanley, J. Jones, C. Stow, N. Lottig. 2017. Unexpected stasis in a changing world: Lake nutrient and chlorophyll trends since 1990. Global Change Biology 23:5455-5467.  doi: 10.1111/gcb.13810

Collins, S.M., S.K. Oliver, J.-F. Lapierre, E.H. Stanley, J. Jones, T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno. 2017. Lake nutrient stoichiometry is less predictable than nutrient concentrations at regional and sub-continental scales. Ecological Applications 27(5): 1529–1540. doi: 10.1002/eap.1545. PDF

Lapierre, J.-F., D. Seekell, C.T. Filstrup, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2017. Continental-scale variation in controls of summer CO2 in United States lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 122(4):875-885. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003525 PDF

Yuan, S., P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.E. Fergus, N.K. Skaff, and P.A. Soranno. 2017. Hash-based feature learning for incomplete continuous-valued data. Proceedings of the 2017 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Houston, Texas. April 27-29, 2017. PDF 

Cheruvelil, K.S., S. Yuan, K.E. Webster, P.-N. Tan, J.-F. Lapierre, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.E. Scott, E.N. Henry, P.A. Soranno, C.T. Filstrup, T. Wagner. 2017. Creating multi-themed ecological regions for macrosystems ecology: Testing a flexible, repeatable, and accessible clustering method. Ecology and Evolution 7: 3046–3058. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2884 Open access

Elliott, K.C., I.S. Settles, G.M. Montgomery, S.T. Brassel, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2017. Honorary authorship practices in environmental science teams: structural and cultural causes and solutions. Accountability in Research: Policies and quality assurance 24(2):80-98.  PDF

Falkenberg, L.J. and P.A. Soranno. 2017. Reviewing reviews: an evaluation of  peer reviews of journal article submissions. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 27:1-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10217

Fergus, C.E., A.O. Finley, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner. 2016. Spatial variation in nutrient and water color effects on lake chlorophyll at macroscales. PloS ONE. 11(10): e0164592. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164592 Open access

Elliott, K.C., K.S. Cheruvelil, G.M. Montgomery, and Soranno, P.A.. 2016. Conceptions of good science in our data-rich world. BioScience 66(10) 1-10. 10.1093/biosci/biw115 Open access   *Selected to be Editors’ Choice.

Wagner, T., C.E. Fergus, C.A. Stow, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2016. The statistical power to detect cross-scale interactions at macroscales. Ecosphere 7(7):e01417. 10.1002/ecs2.1417 PDF

Skaff; N.K., K.S.Cheruvelil. 2016. Fine-scale wetland features mediate vector and climate-dependent macroscale patterns in human West Nile virus incidence. Landscape Ecology 31(7): 1615-1628. DOI 10.1007/s10980-016-0346-1.

Oliver, S.K., P.A. Soranno, E. Fergus, T. Wagner, L.A. Winslow, C.E. Scott, K.E. Webster, J.A. Downing, and E.H. Stanley. 2016. Prediction of lake depth across a 17-state region in the United States. Inland Waters 6:314-324. doi: 10.5268/IW-6.3.957 PDF

Soranno, P.A. 2016. L&O Letters: Why we need a new journal for the aquatic sciences. Limnology & Oceanography Letters. 1:1-2. http://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10025

Yuan, S., P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.M. Collins, and P.A. Soranno. 2015. Constrained spectral clustering for regionalization: Exploring the trade-off between spatial contiguity and landscape homogeneity. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics.  19-21 October 2015. Pg 1-10. doi:10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344878 PDF

Skaff, N.K., K.S. Cheruvelil. 2016. Fine-scale wetland features mediate vector and climate-dependent macroscale patterns in human West Nile virus incidence. Landscape Ecology 31(7):1615-1628. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0346-1 PDF

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster, M.T. Bremigan. 2015. Effects of land use on lake nutrients: The importance of scale, hydrologic connectivity, and region. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0135454. Open access

Soranno, P.A., E.G. Bissell, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, C.E. Scott, N.J. Smith, S. Stopyak, S. Yuan, M.T. Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C. Gries, E.N. Henry, N.K. Skaff, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2015. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: Fostering open science and data reuse. GigaScience 4:28 doi:10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4 . Open access

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, K.C. Elliott, and G.M. Montgomery. 2015. It’s good to share: Why environmental scientists’ ethics are out of date. BioScience 65(1):69-73. Open-access

Filstrup, C.T., T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, K.E. Webster, and J.A. Downing. 2014. Regional variability among nonlinear chlorophyll-phosphorus relationships in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 59(5):1691-1703. PDF

Lottig, N.R., T. Wagner. E.N. Henry, K.S. Cheruvelil, K.E. Webster, J.A. Downing, and C.A. Stow. 2014. Long-term citizen-collected data reveal geographical patterns and temporal trends in lake water clarity.
Open access

Soranno, P.A., and D.S. Schimel. Macrosystems ecology: Big data, big ecology. 2014. Guest editorial in the special issue on Macrosystems Ecology in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):3. Open access

Heffernan, J.B., P.A. Soranno, M.J. Angilletta, L.B. Buckley, D.S. Gruner, T.H. Keitt, J.R. Kellner, J.S. Kominoski, A.V. Rocha, J. Xiao, T.K. Harms, S.J. Goring, L.E. Koenig, W.H. McDowell, H. Powell, A.D. Richardson , C.A. Stow, R. Vargas, K.C. Weathers.  2014. Macrosystems ecology: Understanding ecological pattern and process at continental scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):5-14. Open access

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, E. Bissell, M. Tate Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C.E. Fergus, C. Filstrup, N.R. Lottig, E.N. Henry, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2014.  Cross-scale interactions: Quantifying multi-scaled cause-effect relationships in macrosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):65-73. Open access

Ruegg, J., C. Gries, B. Bond-Lamberty, G.J. Bowen, B.S. Felzer, N.E. McIntyre, P.A. Soranno, K.L. Vanderbilt, K.C. Weathers. 2014. Completing the data life cycle: Using information management in macrosystems ecology research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):24-30. Open access

Goring, S., K. Weathers, W.K. Dodds, P.A. Soranno, L. Sweet, K.S. Cheruvelil, J. Kominoski, J. Ruegg, A. Thorn, R. Utz. 2014. Improving the culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology by expanding the measures of success. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):39-47. Open access

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, K.C. Weathers, P.C. Hanson, S. Goring, C.T. Filstrup, and E.K. Read. 2014. Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):31-38. Open access

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, M.T. Bremigan, and K.E. Webster. 2013. Multi-scaled drivers of ecosystem state: Quantifying the importance of the regional spatial scale.  Ecological Applications. 23:1603-1618. PDF

Kramer, D.B., T. Zhang, K.S. Cheruvelil, A. Ligmann-Zielinska, P.A. Soranno. 2013. A multi-objective, return on investment analysis for freshwater conservation planning. Ecosystems . DOI: 10.1007/s10021-013-9654-3. PDF

Zhang, T, PA Soranno, KS Cheruvelil, DB Kramer, MT Bremigan, A Ligmann-Zielinska. 2012. Evaluating the effects of upstream lakes and wetlands on lake phosphorus concentrations using a spatially-explicit model. Landscape Ecology 27:1015-1030. DOI 10.1007/s10980-012-9762-z  PDF

Fergus C.E., Soranno P.A., Cheruvelil K.S., Bremigan M.T. 2011. Multi-scale landscape and wetland drivers of lake total phosphorus and water color. Limnology and Oceanography 56(6): 2127-2146. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2127. PDF

Soranno, P.A., T. Wagner, S.L. Martin, C. McLean, L.N. Novitski, C. Provence, and A.R. Rober. 2011Quantifying regional reference conditions for freshwater ecosystem management: a comparison of approaches and future research needs. Lake and Reservoir Management. 27(2):138-148. PDF

Wagner, T., P.A. Soranno, K.E. Webster, and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2011. Landscape drivers of regional variation in the relationship between total phosphorus and chlorophyll. Freshwater Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02621.x. PDF

Martin, S.L., P.A. Soranno, M.T. Bremigan and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2011. Comparing hydrogeomorphic approaches to lake classification. Environmental Management 48:957-974. doi: 10.1007/s00267-011-9740-2. PDF

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, K.E. Webster, M.T. Bremigan, T. Wagner and C.A. Stow. 2010. Using landscape limnology to classify freshwater ecosystems for multi-ecosystem management and conservation. BioScience 60(6):440-454. PDF

Soranno, P.A. 2010. Improving student-led discussions: transforming the discussion leader. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education. 39: 84-91.  PDF

Soranno, P.A., K.E. Webster, K.S. Cheruvelil and M.T. Bremigan. 2009. The lake landscape-context framework: linking aquatic connections, terrestrial features and human effects at multiple spatial scales. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 30(5): 695-700. PDF

Stow, C.A., E.C. Lamon, S.S. Qian, P.A. Soranno, K.H. Reckhow. 2009. Chapter 5:
Bayesian Hierarchical/Multilevel Models for Inference and Prediction Using Cross-System Lake Data. In: Real World Ecology: Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods. Miao, S., S, Carstenn, and M. Nungesser, Eds. Springer, New York.  PDF

Bremigan, M.T., P.A. Soranno, M.J. Gonzalez, D.B. Bunnell, K.K. Arend, W.H. Renwick, R.A. Stein, and M.J. Vanni. 2008. Hydrogeomorphic features mediate the effects of land use on reservoir productivity and food webs. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(4):1420-1433. PDF

Cheruvelil, KS. and P.A. Soranno. 2008. Relationships between lake macrophyte cover and lake and landscape features. Aquatic Botany. 88:219-227. PDF

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, M.T. Bremigan, T. Wagner, and S.L. Martin. 2008. Grouping lakes for water quality assessment and monitoring: the roles of regionalization and spatial scale. Environmental Management. 41: 425-440. PDF

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, R.J. Stevenson, S.L. Rollins, S.W. Holden, S. Heaton, and E.K. Torng. 2008. A framework for developing ecosystem-specific nutrient criteria: Integrating biological thresholds with predictive modeling. Limnology and Oceanography 53(2):773-787. PDF

Wagner, T. P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil, W.H. Renwick, K.E. Webster, P. Vaux, R.J.F. Abbitt. 2008. Quantifying sample biases of inland lake sampling programs in relation to lake surface area and land use/cover. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 141: 131-147. PDF

Webster, K.E., P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil, M.T. Bremigan, J.A. Downing, P. Vaux, T. Asplund, L.C. Bacon, and J. Connor. 2008. An empirical evaluation of the nutrient color paradigm for lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 53(3):1137-1148. PDF

Jensen, O.P., B.J. Benson, J.J. Magnuson, V.M. Card, M.N. Futter, P.A. Soranno, and K.M. Stewart. 2007. Spatial analysis of ice phenology trends across the Laurentian Great Lakes region during a recent warming period. Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2013-2026. PDF

Wagner, T., Bremigan, M. T., K.S. Cheruvelil, K., Soranno, P.A., Nate, N.N., and Breck, J.E. 2007. A multilevel modeling approach to assessing regional and local landscape features for lake classification and assessment of fish growth rates. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 130:437-454. PDF

Martin, S.L. and P.A. Soranno. 2006. Defining lake landscape position: relationships to hydrologic connectivity and landscape features. Limnology and Oceanography. 51: 801-814. PDF

Nelson, S.A.C., K.S. Cheruvelil and P.A. Soranno. 2006. Satellite remote sensing of freshwater macrophytes and the influence of water clarity. Aquatic Botany. 85:289-298. PDF

Cheruvelil, K.S., N.A. Nate, P.A. Soranno and M.T. Bremigan. 2005. Lack of a unimodal relationship between fish growth and macrophyte cover in 45 north temperate lakes. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie. 164: 193-215. PDF

Bruhn, L.C. and P.A. Soranno. 2005. Long term (1974-2001) volunteer monitoring of water clarity trends in Michigan lakes and their relation to ecoregion and land use/cover. Lake and Reservoir Management 21(1):10-23. PDF

Magnuson, J.J., B.J. Benson, O.P. Jenson, T.B. Clark, V. Card, M.N. Futter, P.A. Soranno, and K.M. Stewart. 2005. Persistence of coherence of ice-off dates for inland lakes across the Laurentian Great Lakes region. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie. 23:521-527. PDF

Vanni, M.J., Arend, K.K., Bremigan, M.T., Bunnell, D.B., Garvey, J.E., González, M.J., Renwick, W.H., Soranno, P.A., and Stein, R.A. 2005. Linking landscapes and food webs: effects of omnivorous fish and watersheds on reservoir ecosystems. BioScience 55(2):155-167. PDF

Nelson, S.A.C., P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.A. Batzli and D.L. Skole. 2003. Regional assessment of lake water clarity using satellite remote sensing. Journal of Limnology 62 (Suppl. 1):27-32. PDF

Walsh, S.E., P.A. Soranno and D.T. Rutledge. 2003. Lakes, wetlands and streams as predictors of land use/cover distribution. Environmental Management 31(2):198-214. PDF

Cheruvelil, Kendra Spence, Patricia A. Soranno, John D. Madsen, and Marla J. Roberson. 2002. Plant architecture and epiphytic macroinvertebrate communities: the role of an exotic dissected macrophyte. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 2002 21:2, 261-277. https://doi.org/10.2307/1468414

Nelson, S.A.C., P.A. Soranno and J. Qi. 2002. Land-cover change in Upper Barataria Basin estuary, Louisiana, 1972-1992: Increases in wetland area. Environmental Management 29(5):716-727. PDF

Seelbach, P.W., M.J. Wiley, P.A. Soranno and M.T. Bremigan. 2002. Aquatic conservation planning: using landscape maps to predict ecological reference conditions for specific waters. In K. Gutzwiller, [ed], Concepts and Applications of Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. PDF

Turner, M.G., T.R. Crow, J. Liu, D. Rabe, C.F. Rabeni, P.A. Soranno, W.W. Taylor, K. Vogt, and J.A. Wiens. 2002. Bridging the gap between landscape ecology and natural resource management, in J. Liu and W.W. Tayler, [eds], Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. PDF

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, and R.D. Serbin. 2000. Macroinvertebrates associated wtih submerged macrophytes: sample size and power to detect effects. Hydrobiologia 441:133-139. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1017514824711

Webster, K.E, P.A. Soranno, S.B. Baines, T.K. Kratz, C.J. Bowser, P.J. Dillon, P. Campbell, E.J. Fee, R.E. Hecky. 2000. Structuring features of lake districts: Geomorphic and landscape controls on lake chemical responses to drought. Freshwater Biology 43:499-515. PDF

Soranno, P.A., K.E. Webster, J.L. Riera, T.K. Kratz, J.S. Baron, P. Bukaveckas, G.W. Kling, D. White, N. Caine, R.C. Lathrop and P.R. Leavitt. 1999. Spatial variation among lakes within landscapes: Ecological organization along lake chains. Ecosystems 2:395-410. PDF

Soranno, P.A., Hubler, S.L., Carpenter, S.R., and R.C. Lathrop. 1996. Phosphorus loads to surface waters: a simple model to account for spatial pattern of land use. Ecol. Appl. 6:865-878. PDF

Soranno, P.A., S.R. Carpenter and R.C. Lathrop. 1997. Internal phosphorus loading in Lake Mendota, WI during two years of contrasting external loads. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54:1883-1893. PDF

De Stasio Jr., B.T., L. Rudstam, A. Haning, and P.A. Soranno. 1995. An in-situ test of food quality on Daphnia growth.  Hydrobiologia 307:221-230.

Hansson, L-A., L.G. Rudstam, T.B. Johnson, P.A. Soranno, Y. Allen and S.R. Carpenter. 1995. Patterns in algal recruitment from sediment to water in a dimictic, eutrophic lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:2825-2833.

He, X., M.D. Scheuerell, P.A. Soranno, and R.A. Wright. 1994. Recurrent response patterns of a zooplankton community to whole-lake fish manipulation. Freshwater Biology 32:61-72.

Carpenter, S.R., X. He, J.F. Kitchell, and P.A. Soranno. 1993. Whole-lake experiments: is grazer functional response stable?  Verh. int. Ver. Limnol. 25: 398-400.

Kitchell, J.F., S.R. Carpenter, J.R. Hodgson, X. He, P.A. Soranno. 1993.Phosphorus in food webs: compensatory responses in experimental lakes.  Verh. int. Ver. Limnol. 25: 344-348.

Carpenter, S.R., C.E. Kraft, R. Wright, X. He, P.A. Soranno, J.R. Hodgson. 1992. Resilience and resistance of a lake phosphorus cycle before and after food web manipulation. American Naturalist 140(5): 781-798.

MacKay, N.A., S.R. Carpenter, P.A. Soranno, and M.J. Vanni. 1990. The impact of two Chaoborus species on a zooplankton community. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 981-985.

St. Amand, A., P.A. Soranno, S.R. Carpenter, and J.J. Elser.  1989.  Algal nutrient deficiency: growth bioassays versus physiological indicators.  Lake and Reservoir Management 5(1): 27-35.

Elser, M.M., C.N. von Ende, P.A. Soranno, and S.R. Carpenter.  1987.  Chaoborus populations: response to food web manipulation and potential effects on zooplankton communities.  Canadian Journal of Zoology 65: 2846-2852.