Among its many impacts, climate warming is leading to increasing winter air temperatures,
decreasing ice cover extent, and changing winter precipitation patterns over the Laurentian …

Upon its initial publication more than fifteen years ago, this book broke new ground with its
comprehensive coverage of the biology and ecology, distribution and dispersal …

In large lakes, temporal variability is compounded by strong spatial variability associated
with mesoscale physical processes such as upwelling and basin-scale circulation. Here we …

Dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. bugensis) have re-engineered Great
Lakes ecosystems since their introduction in the late 1980s. Dreissenids can have major …

Lake-wide phytoplankton chlorophyll a concentrations and primary production were
determined for lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior in 2010–2013. Chlorophyll a …

Since Pacific salmon stocking began in Lake Michigan, managers have attempted to
maintain salmon abundance at high levels within what can be sustained by available prey …

Between 1990 and 2001, late-winter phytoplankton blooms were common in parts of the
lower Great Lakes (southern Lake Michigan, Saginaw Bay and southern Lake Huron, and …

Effective water resources management and monitoring are essential amid increasing
challenges posed by population growth, industrialization, urbanization, and climate change …

Zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha are a native bivalve from eastern Europe. They were
first detected in North America in Lake St. Clair in 1988 and were presumably introduced via …

A 1-dimensional, linked hydrodynamic and eutrophication model was developed and
calibrated with 19 years of observations (1987–2005) for the summer stratification period in …