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List of works by James A. Rusak

A comparative evaluation of five common pairwise tests of species association

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups

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A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector

A framework for ensemble modelling of climate change impacts on lakes worldwide: the ISIMIP Lake Sector

scientific article published in 2022

A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985-2009.

scientific article

A multi-lake comparative analysis of the General Lake Model (GLM): Stress-testing across a global observatory network

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Altered pH and reduced calcium levels drive near extirpation of native crayfish, Cambarus bartonii, in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada

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Asymmetrical food web responses in trophic-level richness, biomass, and function following lake acidification

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Blooms also like it cold

scientific article published on 17 February 2023

Citizen science shows systematic changes in the temperature difference between air and inland waters with global warming

scientific article

Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Communities contain closely related species during ecosystem disturbance

scientific article published on 8 December 2009

Current water quality guidelines across North America and Europe do not protect lakes from salinization

scientific article published on 22 February 2022

Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Determining the probability of cyanobacterial blooms: the application of Bayesian networks in multiple lake systems

scientific article

Diel Surface Temperature Range Scales with Lake Size

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Differential effects of energy and mass influx on the landscape synchrony of lake ecosystems

scientific article published on May 2011

Differential effects of energy and mass influx on the landscape synchrony of lake ecosystems

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Disturbance-driven changes in the variability of ecological patterns and processes

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

Do ecosystem insecurity and social vulnerability lead to failure of water security?

scientific article published in 2021

EVIDENCE FOR A GENERAL SPECIES–TIME–AREA RELATIONSHIP

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Earlier winter/spring runoff and snowmelt during warmer winters lead to lower summer chlorophyll‐ a in north temperate lakes

scientific article

Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity - contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability

scientific article

Forest defoliator outbreaks alter nutrient cycling in northern waters

scientific article published on 05 November 2021

Geographic and temporal variations in turbulent heat loss from lakes: A global analysis across 45 lakes

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Global Lake Health in the Anthropocene: Societal Implications and Treatment Strategies

scientific article published in April 2024

Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes

scientific article

Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services

scientific article published in August 2006

Historical Trends, Drivers, and Future Projections of Ice Phenology in Small North Temperate Lakes in the Laurentian Great Lakes Region

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Homage to Hutchinson: does inter-annual climate variability affect zooplankton density and diversity?

Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget for a north temperate lake district

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Interactive effects of increasing chloride concentration and warming on freshwater plankton communities

scientific article published in 2022

Lake salinization drives consistent losses of zooplankton abundance and diversity across coordinated mesocosm experiments

scientific article published on 3 February 2022

Lake sediments record large-scale shifts in moisture regimes across the northern prairies of North America during the past two millennia

scholarly article

Lake-size dependency of wind shear and convection as controls on gas exchange

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Latitude and lake size are important predictors of over-lake atmospheric stability

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Long-term trends in zooplankton of Dorset, Ontario, lakes: the probable interactive effects of changes in pH, total phosphorus, dissolved organic carbon, and predators

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Long-term variation in isotopic baselines and implications for estimating consumer trophic niches

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Millennial-scale relationships of diatom species richness and production in two prairie lakes

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Modeling Water Yield: Assessing the Role of Site and Region-Specific Attributes in Determining Model Performance of the InVEST Seasonal Water Yield Model

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Multimodel simulation of vertical gas transfer in a temperate lake

scientific article published in 2020

Paired O<sub>2</sub>–CO<sub>2</sub> measurements provide emergent insights into aquatic ecosystem function

scientific article published in 2020

Patterns and drivers of deep chlorophyll maxima structure in 100 lakes: The relative importance of light and thermal stratification

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Quantifying lake allochthonous organic carbon budgets using a simple equilibrium model

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Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Regional climatic drivers of synchronous zooplankton dynamics in north-temperate lakes

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Response of temperate lakes to drought: a paleolimnological perspective on the landscape position concept using diatom-based reconstructions

scholarly article

Road salt impacts freshwater zooplankton at concentrations below current water quality guidelines

scientific article published on 28 June 2020

Sampling requirements and the implications of reduced sampling effort for the estimation of annual zooplankton population and community dynamics in north temperate lakes

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Socioeconomic and Environmental Proxies for Comparing Freshwater Ecosystem Service Threats across International Sites: A Diagnostic Approach

scholarly article by Thomas C. Harmon et al published 4 November 2018 in Water

Stochastic disturbance regimes alter patterns of ecosystem variability and recovery

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems

scientific article published in August 2014

Synchrony in aquatic microbial community dynamics

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Temporal changes in cladoceran assemblages subjected to a low calcium environment: combining the sediment record with long-term monitoring data

article published in 2016

Terrestrial loads of dissolved organic matter drive inter-annual carbon flux in subtropical lakes during times of drought

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

The NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network: A national assessment of lake health providing science for water management in a changing climate

scientific article published on 04 August 2019

The Temporal Coherence of Zooplankton Population Abundances in Neighboring North‐Temperate Lakes

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The jellification of north temperate lakes

scientific article published in January 2015

Transparency, Geomorphology and Mixing Regime Explain Variability in Trends in Lake Temperature and Stratification across Northeastern North America (1975–2014)

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Ulcerative disease outbreak in crayfish Orconectes propinquus linked to Saprolegnia australis in big Muskellunge Lake, Wisconsin

scientific article published in July 2010

Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts

article by Stephen R. Carpenter et al published 1 April 2007 in BioScience

Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Widespread variation in salt tolerance within freshwater zooplankton species reduces the predictability of community‐level salt tolerance

scientific article published on 24 August 2022