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List of works by Peter R. Leavitt

A 500-year context for the recent surge in sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) abundance in the Alagnak River, Alaska

scholarly article by Daniel E. Schindler et al published July 2006 in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

A Whole-Lake Experiment to Determine the Effects of Winter Droughts on Shallow Lakes

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A coherent signature of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition to remote watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere.

scientific article published in December 2011

A reevaluation of the cultural eutrophication of Lake Okeechobee using multiproxy sediment records

scientific article

A review of factors that regulate carotenoid and chlorophyll deposition and fossil pigment abundance

scholarly article

Abrupt changes in the physical and biological structure of endorheic upland lakes due to 8‐m lake‐level variation during the 20 th century

Acceleration of cyanobacterial dominance in north temperate-subarctic lakes during the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Alkenones are common in prairie lakes of interior Canada

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Alteration of Nutrient Cycles and Algal Production Resulting from Fish Introductions intoMountain Lakes

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An annual fossil record of production, planktivory and piscivory during whole-lake manipulations

scholarly article

Aridity on the Canadian Plains

article published in 2004

Assessing environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies

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Assessment of drought over the past two millennia using near-shore sediment cores from a Canadian boreal lake

scholarly article

Asynchronous onset of eutrophication among shallow prairie lakes of the Northern Great Plains, Alberta, Canada

scientific article

Basin-specific records of lake oligotrophication during the middle-to-late Holocene in boreal northeast Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Bias in Research Grant Evaluation Has Dire Consequences for Small Universities

scientific article

Biomass and Pigments of Benthic Algae

Biomass and Pigments of Benthic Algae

Bottom-Up Forces Drive Increases in the Abundance of Large Daphnids in Four Small Lakes Stocked with Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Interior British Columbia, Canada

scientific article

Breathing space: deoxygenation of aquatic environments can drive differential ecological impacts across biological invasion stages

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

CONTROLS OF ALGAL ABUNDANCE AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION DURING ECOSYSTEM STATE CHANGE

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Centennial-scale fluctuations and regional complexity characterize Pacific salmon population dynamics over the past five centuries

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Century-long synchrony of fossil algae in a chain of Canadian prairie lakes

scientific article published in July 2006

Changes in coupled carbon‒nitrogen dynamics in a tundra ecosystem predate post-1950 regional warming

scholarly article

Changes in nitrogen cycling during the past century in a northern hardwood forest

scholarly article

Cladocera Community Response to Experimental Eutrophication in Lake 227 as Recorded in Laminated Sediments

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Classification of hydrological regimes of northern floodplain basins (Peace–Athabasca Delta, Canada) from analysis of stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H) and water chemistry

article

Climate change drives widespread shifts in lake thermal habitat

scientific article published on 03 June 2021

Climate control of the spring clear-water phase through the transfer of energy and mass to lakes

article

Climate-driven changes in water level: a decadal scale multi-proxy study recording the 8.2-ka event and ecosystem responses in Lake Sarup (Denmark)

scholarly article

Comparative effects of urea, ammonium, and nitrate on phytoplankton abundance, community composition, and toxicity in hypereutrophic freshwaters

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Complex responses of phototrophic communities to climate warming during the Holocene of northeastern Ontario, Canada

scientific article

Consequences of Fish Kills for Long-Term Trophic Structure in Shallow Lakes: Implications for Theory and Restoration

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Contrasting effects of nutrients and climate on algal communities in two lakes in the Windermere catchment since the late 19th century

article

Controls of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Natural and Constructed Agricultural Waterbodies on the Northern Great Plains

Convergent polymorphism between stream and lake habitats: the case of brook char

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DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSES OF LITTORAL COMMUNITIES TO ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION IN AN ALPINE LAKE

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Daphniid zooplankton assemblage shifts in response to eutrophication and metal contamination during the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2017

David W. Schindler (1940–2021): Trailblazing scientist and advocate for the environment

scientific article

David W. Schindler—Icon and Iconoclast

Decrease in CO2 efflux from northern hardwater lakes with increasing atmospheric warming.

scientific article published on 25 February 2015

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

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Development and application of sedimentary pigments for assessing effects of climatic and environmental changes on subarctic lakes in northern Sweden

scholarly article

Diatom, Pollen, and Chemical Evidence of Postglacial Climatic Change at Big Lake, South-Central British Columbia, Canada

scientific article

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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Differential stimulation and suppression of phytoplankton growth by ammonium enrichment in eutrophic hardwater lakes over 16 years

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Disproportionate importance of nearshore habitat for the food web of a deep oligotrophic lake

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Don't stressor the small stuff

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Ecological, landscape, and climatic regulation of sediment geochemistry in North American sockeye salmon nursery lakes: Insights for paleoecological salmon investigations

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Ecosystem-level regulation of boreal lake phytoplankton by ultraviolet radiationThis paper is part of the series “Forty Years of Aquatic Research at the Experimental Lakes Area”

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Effects of a century of mining and industrial production on metal contamination of a model saline ecosystem, Great Salt Lake, Utah

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Effects of drought and pluvial periods on fish and zooplankton communities in prairie lakes: systematic and asystematic responses.

scientific article

Effects of experimental nitrogen fertilization on planktonic metabolism and CO2 flux in a hypereutrophic hardwater lake

scientific article

Effects of historical lake level and land use on sediment and phosphorus accumulation rates in Lake Kinneret.

scientific article published in December 2004

Effects of lake warming on the seasonal risk of toxic cyanobacteria exposure

Effects of land use, urbanization, and climate variability on coastal eutrophication in the Baltic Sea

Effects of nitrogen removal from wastewater on phytoplankton in eutrophic prairie streams

Effects of spatial variation in benthic phototrophs along a depth gradient on assessments of whole‐lake processes

Effects of ultraviolet radiation on periphyton in an alpine lake

scientific article

Experimental evidence that pollution with urea can degrade water quality in phosphorus-rich lakes of the Northern Great Plains

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Exploitation and destabilization of a warm, freshwater ecosystem through engineered hydrological change

scientific article published in October 2008

Factors regulating primary producers' assemblages in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile ecosystems over the past 1800 years

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Fossil pigments as indicators of phototrophic response to salinity and climatic change in lakes of western Canada

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Functional ecology and palaeolimnology: using cladoceran remains to reconstruct anthropogenic impact

scientific article published in April 2001

Global Patterns and Controls of Nutrient Immobilization on Decomposing Cellulose in Riverine Ecosystems

scientific article published in March 2022

Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: a review

scholarly article

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

High microcystin concentrations occur only at low nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratios in nutrient-rich Canadian lakes

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Historical phosphorus dynamics in Lake of the Woods (USA–Canada) — does legacy phosphorus still affect the southern basin?

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History and timing of human impact on Lake Victoria, East Africa

scientific article (publication date: 7 February 2002)

Hydrocarbons in Lake Washington sediments. A 25-year retrospective in an urban lake.

scientific article published on January 2004

Hydroecological responses of the Athabasca Delta, Canada, to changes in river flow and climate during the 20th century

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Hydrologic, metabolic and chemical regulation of water-column metabolism and atmospheric CO2 exchange in a large continental reservoir during spring and summer

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Hydrological fluctuations modulate phototrophic responses to nutrient fertilization in a large and shallow lake of Southwest China

scientific article

Identifying consumer-resource population dynamics using paleoecological data.

scientific article

Impacts of forestry planting on primary production in upland lakes from north-west Ireland

scientific article published on 14 December 2015

Improvement of field fluorometry estimates of chlorophyll a concentration in a cyanobacteria‐rich eutrophic lake

scientific article published in 2022

In lakes but not in minds: stakeholder knowledge of invasive species in prairie lakes

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

scholarly article

Landscape effects of climate, agriculture, and urbanization on benthic invertebrate communities of Canadian prairie lakes

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Limnological succession in reservoirs: a paleolimnological comparison of two methods of reservoir formation

Long-term dynamics of algal and invertebrate communities in a small, fluctuating tropical soda lake

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Long-term zooplankton responses to nutrient and consumer subsidies arising from migratory sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

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MARINE-DERIVED NUTRIENTS, COMMERCIAL FISHERIES, AND PRODUCTION OF SALMON AND LAKE ALGAE IN ALASKA

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Marked blue discoloration of late winter ice and water due to autumn blooms of cyanobacteria

Mercury Elevator in Lakes: A Novel Vector of Methylmercury Transfer to Fish via Migratory Invertebrates

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

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Multi-proxy Holocene palaeoclimatic record from a saline lake in the Canadian Subarctic

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Next‐Generation Sequencing to Identify Lacustrine Haptophytes in the Canadian Prairies: Significance for Temperature Proxy Applications

scientific article published in July 2019

Novel alkenone-producing strains of genus Isochrysis (Haptophyta) isolated from Canadian saline lakes show temperature sensitivity of alkenones and alkenoates

scientific article

Nutrient sequestration in the Lake Winnipeg watershed

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Nutrients and warming interact to force mountain lakes into unprecedented ecological states

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Paleo-environmental evidence of ecosystem change in Lake St. Clair region of Laurentian Great Lakes basin: contrasting responses to land-use change and invasive mussels

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Paleolimnological assessment of nutrient enrichment on diatom assemblages in a priori defined nitrogen- and phosphorus-limited lakes downwind of the Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada

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Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans

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Paleolimnological proxies reveal continued eutrophication issues in the St. Lawrence River Area of Concern

scientific article

Paleolimnology of the Lake of the Woods southern basin: continued water quality degradation despite lower nutrient influx

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Past ultraviolet radiation environments in lakes derived from fossil pigments

scientific article published in Nature

Phytobenthos and Phytoplankton as Potential Indicators of Climate Change in Mountain Lakes and Ponds: A HPLC-Based Pigment Approach

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Phytoplankton-specific response to enrichment of phosphorus-rich surface waters with ammonium, nitrate, and urea

scientific article

Pluses and minuses of ammonium and nitrate uptake and assimilation by phytoplankton and implications for productivity and community composition, with emphasis on nitrogen-enriched conditions

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Recent Eutrophication Histories in Lac Ste. Anne and Lake Isle, Alberta, Canada, Inferred Using Paleolimnological Methods

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Recent sedimentary legacy of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and climate change in an ultraoligotrophic, glacially turbid British Columbia nursery lake

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Recording of climate and diagenesis through sedimentary DNA and fossil pigments at Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

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Regional climate changes drive increased scaled-chrysophyte abundance in lakes downwind of Athabasca Oil Sands nitrogen emissions

scholarly article

Regional versus local drivers of water quality in the Windermere catchment, Lake District, UK: the dominant influence of wastewater pollution over the past 200 years.

scientific article

Regulation of carbon dioxide and methane in small agricultural reservoirs: optimizing potential for greenhouse gas uptake

scientific article

Regulation of the nitrogen biogeochemistry of mountain lakes by subsidies of terrestrial dissolved organic matter and the implications for climate studies

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Resilience and recovery: the effect of triclosan exposure timing during development, on the structure and function of river biofilm communities.

scientific article published on 21 February 2015

Resource‐use, body condition and parasite load metrics indicate contrasting health of stocked and native game fishes in Canadian prairie lakes

scientific article

Seasonal variation in effects of urea and phosphorus on phytoplankton abundance and community composition in a hypereutrophic hardwater lake

Seasonality of pCO 2 in a hard‐water lake of the northern Great Plains: The legacy effects of climate and limnological conditions over 36 years

scientific article

Sediment-magnetic evidence for last millennium drought conditions at the prairie–forest ecotone of northern United States

scientific article

Sedimentary Pigments

article published in 2002

Shallow water phytoplankton responses to nitrate and salinity enrichment may be modified by benthic processes

scholarly article

Spatial and temporal patterns of urea content in a eutrophic stream continuum on the Northern Great Plains

Spatial and temporal variability of prairie lake hydrology as revealed using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen

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Spatial and temporal variation in nitrogen fixation and its importance to phytoplankton in phosphorus-rich lakes

scientific article

Spatial variability of climate and land-use effects on lakes of the northern Great Plains

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Synthesis Centers as Critical Research Infrastructure

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Taxon-specific variation in δ13C and δ15N of subfossil invertebrate remains: Insights into historical trophodynamics in lake food-webs

scientific article

Temporal Variation in a Paleolimnological Record Arising from a Trophic Cascade

scientific article published in 1991

The Qu'Appelle Long‐Term Ecological Research Program: A 26‐Yr Hierarchical Platform to Study Freshwater Ecosystems of the Northern Great Plains

scientific article

The Role of Paleoecology in Whole-Ecosystem Science

The eutrophication of Lake Champlain's northeastern arm: Insights from paleolimnological analyses

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The varved succession of Crawford Lake, Milton, Ontario, Canada as a candidate Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene series

scientific article published in 2023

Twentieth century eutrophication of the St. Croix River (Minnesota–Wisconsin, USA) reconstructed from the sediments of its natural impoundment

scholarly article

Unabated Nitrogen Pollution Favors Growth of Toxic Cyanobacteria over Chlorophytes in Most Hypereutrophic Lakes

scientific article published on 04 March 2020

Unexpected shift from phytoplankton to periphyton in eutrophic streams due to wastewater influx

scientific article

Variable effects of marine-derived nutrients on algal production in salmon nursery lakes of Alaska during the past 300 years

scholarly article by Curtis S. Brock et al published July 2007 in Limnology and Oceanography

Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes

Widespread nitrous oxide undersaturation in farm waterbodies creates an unexpected greenhouse gas sink

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

“New” cyanobacterial blooms are not new: two centuries of lake production are related to ice cover and land use

scientific article

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