Lake ice quality in a warming world

J Culpepper, E Jakobsson, GA Weyhenmeyer… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Ice phenology has shifted with anthropogenic warming such that many lakes are
experiencing a shorter ice season. However, changes to ice quality—the ratio of black and …

Ten best practices for effective phenological research

RB Primack, AS Gallinat, ER Ellwood… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The number and diversity of phenological studies has increased rapidly in recent years.
Innovative experiments, field studies, citizen science projects, and analyses of newly …

Shrinking body size and climate warming: Many freshwater salmonids do not follow the rule

MA Solokas, ZS Feiner, R Al‐Chokachy… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Declining body size is believed to be a universal response to climate warming and has been
documented in numerous studies of marine and anadromous fishes. The Salmonidae are a …

[HTML][HTML] Full year seasonality of benthos in the nearshore of Lake Superior

K Shchapov, T Ozersky - Journal of Great Lakes Research, 2025 - Elsevier
Relatively little is known about the full-year dynamics of benthic invertebrates in seasonally-
freezing lakes. In this study, we describe the seasonal variability in benthic invertebrate …

Diminishing productivity and hyperstable harvest in northern Wisconsin walleye fisheries

JT Mrnak, HS Embke, MV Wilkinson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Managing fisheries in a changing socio-ecological environment may require holistic
approaches for identifying and adapting to novel ecosystem dynamics. Using 32 years of …

Widespread loss of safe lake ice access in response to a warming climate

J Culpepper, L Huang, RI Woolway, S Sharma - PloS one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Millions of people rely on lake ice for safe winter recreation. Warming air temperatures
impact the phenology (timing of formation and breakup) and quality (ratio of black to white …

Fish reproductive phenology shifts with increasing temperature and year

ST Koenigbauer, ML Cubbage, LD Warren… - Biology …, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Temperate fishes often spawn in response to environmental cues, such as temperature,
thereby facilitating larval emergence concurrent with suitable biotic and abiotic conditions …

Lagging spawning and increasing phenological extremes jeopardize walleye (Sander vitreus) in north‐temperate lakes

ME Barta, GG Sass, JR Reed… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The phenology of critical biological events in aquatic ecosystems is rapidly shifting due to
climate change. Growing variability in phenological cues can increase the likelihood of …

Synthesizing professional opinion and published science to build a conceptual model of Walleye recruitment

CA Krabbenhoft, SA Ludsin, EA Marschall… - Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and predicting recruitment, longstanding goals in fisheries science and
ecology, are complicated by variation in the importance of environmental drivers coupled …

Reimagining large river management using the Resist–Accept–Direct (RAD) framework in the Upper Mississippi River

NK Ward, AJ Lynch, EA Beever, J Booker… - Ecological …, 2023 - Springer
Background Large-river decision-makers are charged with maintaining diverse ecosystem
services through unprecedented social-ecological transformations as climate change and …