The seminal work of Mills et al.(1993) lists 137 established aquatic species as
nonindigenous to the Great Lakes (two plants are further subdivided into two subspecies …

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 …

Now in its second edition, Pollution of Lakes and Rivers provides essential insights into
present-day water quality problems from an international perspective. Explains simply and …

The term eutrophication broadly refers to the enrichment of aquatic systems by inorganic
plant nutrients (Mason, 1991; Wetzel, 2001). Lake eutrophication occurs when nutrient …

Lake acidification became an environmental issue of international significance in the late
1960s and early 1970s when Scandinavian scientists claimed that “acid rain” was the …

Here we discuss paleoenvironmental evolution in the Baikal region during the Holocene
using new records of aquatic (diatom) and terrestrial vegetation changes from Hovsgol …

Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCM) are absolute maxima of Chlorophyll-a concentration
among the vertical profile that can be found in deep layers of stratified lakes. In this …

Phytoplankton was collected in all basins of Lake Erie during 42 cruises during the spring
and summer from 1983 to 1993—a period that spans the Dreissena mussel invasion. Two …

Paleolimnologists have utilized lake sediment records to understand historical lake and
landscape development, timing and magnitude of environmental change at lake, watershed …

The Great Lakes National Program Office of the US EPA has been conducting biological
monitoring of the Laurentian Great Lakes since 1983. This paper presents synoptic survey …