Since the first edition was published, a second invasive dreissenid, the quagga mussel, has
become established in the western US and is rapidly spreading. This book provides the first …

Phytoplankton production is an important factor in determining both ecosystem stability and
the provision of ecosystem goods and services. The expansive and economically important …

Using various available time series for Lake Michigan, we examined changes in the Lake
Michigan food web following the dreissenid mussel invasions and identified those changes …

We used the results of seventeen years of Great Lakes benthic monitoring conducted by the
US EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office to describe the spatial and temporal patterns …

Though declines in the growth and condition of Great Lakes lake whitefish (Coregonus
clupeaformis) have been largely attributed to food web disruptions caused by invasive …

Adult lake whitefish were tagged and released from the Big Bay de Noc (BBN) and
Naubinway (NAB) stocks in northern Lake Michigan, and the Detour (DET) and Cheboygan …

We conducted a basin-wide analysis of trends in the growth rate of lake whitefish
(Coregonus clupeaformis), a commercially harvested species in the Laurentian Great Lakes …

Abstract Recent oligotrophication in Lake Michigan has contributed to reduced biomass of
spring zooplankton and a shift in the zooplankton assemblage toward more calanoid …

We identified an objective set of 25 commonly available ecosystem metrics applicable
across the world's large continental freshwater and brackish aquatic ecosystem. These …

Abstract In South America, salmonids have been widely introduced to lakes, yet there are
still many oligotrophic lakes without current abundance estimates. Catch per unit effort is a …