Much of our work is conducted to improve our basic understanding of landscape limnology using a variety of approaches, with a focus on data-intensive research that is also team-based and open. To find our more what landscape limnology is, please see this landscape limnology primer.
Example publications about landscape limnology
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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., 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
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
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