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10 Years Later

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A new approach for rapid detection of nearby thresholds in ecosystem time series

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Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems: Inference and Diagnosis

scientific article published on 18 May 2018

Accelerate Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Sciences

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Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

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Airborne carbon deposition on a remote forested lake

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Algal Nutrient Deficiency: Growth Bioassays versus Physiological Indicators

Allowing variance may enlarge the safe operating space for exploited ecosystems

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Altered energy flow in the food web of an experimentally darkened lake

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

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An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social–ecological research

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An invitation for more research on transnational corporations and the biosphere

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Anticipating critical transitions

scientific article published on October 2012

Aquatic eutrophication promotes pathogenic infection in amphibians

scientific article published on 2 October 2007

Are rapid transitions between invasive and native species caused by alternative stable states, and does it matter?

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Assessing a decade of phosphorus management in the Lake Mendota, Wisconsin watershed and scenarios for enhanced phosphorus management

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Asymmetric response of early warning indicators of phytoplankton transition to and from cycles

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BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services require IPBES to take novel approach to scenarios

scholarly article by Marcel T J Kok et al published 2017 in Sustainability Science

Biological Control of Eutrophication in Lakes

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Bright spots: seeds of a good Anthropocene

scientific article published in 2016

Can algal photosynthetic inorganic carbon isotope fractionation be predicted in lakes using existing models?

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Carbon and water cycling in lake-rich landscapes: Landscape connections, lake hydrology, and biogeochemistry

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Carbon sources supporting fish growth in a north temperate lake

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Cascading Trophic Interactions and Lake Productivity

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Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation

scientific article published in 2003

Catch-and-Release Rates of Sport Fishes in Northern Wisconsin from an Angler Diary Survey

Changes in ecosystem resilience detected in automated measures of ecosystem metabolism during a whole-lake manipulation

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Climate change and the integrity of science

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Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Climate engineering reconsidered

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Coarse Woody Habitat, Lakeshore Residential Development, and Largemouth Bass Nesting Behavior

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Coexistence and interference in two submersed freshwater perennial plants

scientific article published on 01 September 1983

Comparing the effects of climate and land use on surface water quality using future watershed scenarios

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Complex systems: Spatial signatures of resilience

scientific article published on 10 April 2013

Complexity of coupled human and natural systems

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Conditional Heteroskedasticity Forecasts Regime Shift in a Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

scholarly article by David Seekell published in April 2012

Conditional heteroscedasticity as a leading indicator of ecological regime shifts

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Consumer-resource body-size relationships in natural food webs

scientific article published in October 2006

Continuous separation of land use and climate effects on the past and future water balance

Continuous separation of land use and climate effects on the past and future water balance

Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Coupled human and natural systems

scientific article published on December 2007

Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework

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Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Depuration of PCBs in the Lake Michigan Ecosystem

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Development of a Regional Stock–Recruitment Model for Understanding Factors Affecting Walleye Recruitment in Northern Wisconsin Lakes

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Diary of a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): daily δ13C and δ18O records in otoliths by ion microprobe

Differential support of lake food webs by three types of terrestrial organic carbon

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Dining on disease: how interactions between infection and environment affect predation risk

scientific article published in August 2006

Do dams and levees impact nitrogen cycling? Simulating the effects of flood alterations on floodplain denitrification

Does terrestrial organic carbon subsidize the planktonic food web in a clear-water lake?

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Drivers, "Slow" Variables, "Fast" Variables, Shocks, and Resilience

scientific article published in 2012

Drought-driven lake level decline: effects on coarse woody habitat and fishes

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Dual thinking for scientists

article published in 2015

Early warning signals of ecological transitions: methods for spatial patterns

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Early warnings of regime shift when the ecosystem structure is unknown

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Early warnings of regime shifts: evaluation of spatial indicators from a whole-ecosystem experiment

scholarly article by Timothy J. Cline published in August 2014

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

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Ecological Futures: Building an Ecology of the Long Now

scientific article (publication date: August 2002)

Ecological community description using the food web, species abundance, and body size.

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Ecology for transformation

scientific article published on 10 March 2006

Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs

scientific article published in October 2006

Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

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Editorial: Special Feature on Scenarios for Ecosystem Services

scholarly article by Stephen R. Carpenter et al published 2006 in Ecology and Society

Effects of submersed macrophytes on ecosystem processes

Epistemology, Experiments, and Pragmatism

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Eradication via destratification: whole-lake mixing to selectively remove rainbow smelt, a cold-water invasive species

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Estimating pelagic primary production in lakes: Comparison of 14 C incubation and free‐water O 2 approaches

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Eutrophication of aquatic ecosystems: bistability and soil phosphorus

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Evaluating Alternative Explanations in Ecosystem Experiments

scholarly article by Stephen R. Carpenter published in July 1998

Evaluation of metabolism models for free-water dissolved oxygen methods in lakes

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Evidence of alternate attractors from a whole-ecosystem regime shift experiment

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Exit time as a measure of ecological resilience

scientific article published in 2021

Experimental mixing of a north-temperate lake: testing the thermal limits of a cold-water invasive fish

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Extreme events in lake ecosystem time series

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Extreme precipitation and phosphorus loads from two agricultural watersheds

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Food Webs, Body Size, and Species Abundance in Ecological Community Description

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Food web consequences of long-term invasive crayfish control

General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

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Generic Indicators of Ecological Resilience: Inferring the Chance of a Critical Transition

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

Global Change and Freshwater Ecosystems

scholarly article by Stephen R. Carpenter published in November 1992

Global consequences of land use

scientific article (publication date: 22 July 2005)

Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Impacts of Daily Bag Limit Reductions on Angler Effort in Wisconsin Walleye Lakes

scientific article published in November 2003

Individual-Based Model for Growth of Young-of-the-Year Walleye: A Piece of the Recruitment Puzzle

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Integrating Landscape Carbon Cycling: Research Needs for Resolving Organic Carbon Budgets of Lakes

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Interpolating and forecasting lake characteristics using long-term monitoring data

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Invasive species triggers a massive loss of ecosystem services through a trophic cascade

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Jonathan J. Cole (1953‐2023)

scientific article published in 2023

LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Lake metabolism: Relationships with dissolved organic carbon and phosphorus

Leading indicators of phytoplankton transitions caused by resource competition

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Learning to Manage and Managing to Learn: Sustaining Freshwater Recreational Fisheries in a Changing Environment

article by Gretchen J. A. Hansen et al published February 2015 in Fisheries

Long-term disease dynamics in lakes: causes and consequences of chytrid infections in Daphnia populations

scientific article published in January 2009

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

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Low serum zinc levels in an endemic area of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India.

scientific article published on June 2010

MANAGEMENT OF EUTROPHICATION FOR LAKES SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE

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Methods for detecting early warnings of critical transitions in time series illustrated using simulated ecological data

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Microcosm Experiments have Limited Relevance for Community and Ecosystem Ecology

scholarly article by Stephen R. Carpenter published in April 1996

Modeling the Lake Mendota Ecosystem: Synthesis and Evaluation of Progress

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Multiple states in river and lake ecosystems

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Multiscale regime shifts and planetary boundaries

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Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature

Nutrient-Loading Gradient in Shallow Lakes: Report of the Group Discussion

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Opinion: Governing the recreational dimension of global fisheries

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

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Outcomes-Based Contracting Experience: Research Findings from U.S. and European Stakeholders.

scientific article published on October 2017

POPULATION, COMMUNITY, AND ECOSYSTEM VARIATES AS ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS: PHYTOPLANKTON RESPONSES TO WHOLE-LAKE ENRICHMENT

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Panaceas and diversification of environmental policy

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Phosphorus control is critical to mitigating eutrophication

scientific article (publication date: 12 August 2008)

Phosphorus loading reductions needed to control blue-green algal blooms in Lake Mendota

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Phosphorus sources and demand during summer in a eutrophic lake

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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

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Predation-driven dynamics of zooplankton and phytoplankton communities in a whole-lake experiment

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Predicting mercury levels in yellow perch: use of water chemistry, trophic ecology, and spatial traits

article by Ben K. Greenfield et al published 2001 in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Predicting walleye recruitment as a tool for prioritizing management actions

Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research

scientific article published on 20 January 2020

Production dynamics reveal hidden overharvest of inland recreational fisheries

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Productivity driven by Tana river discharge is spatially limited in Kenyan coastal waters

Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

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Reconnecting to the biosphere

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Reconsideration of the planetary boundary for phosphorus

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Reducing Phosphorus to Curb Lake Eutrophication is a Success.

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Regime shift in fertilizer commodities indicates more turbulence ahead for food security

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Reply to Cucheroussetet al

scientific article published in 2012

Reply to Vermeulen and Wollenberg: Distinguishing food security and crop yields.

scientific article published on 14 February 2011

Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability

scientific article published in 2010

Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts.

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Resilience-Based Stewardship: Strategies for Navigating Sustainable Pathways in a Changing World

Resilience: Now more than ever

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Resilience: insights from the U.S. LongTerm Ecological Research Network

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Response of plankton to nutrients, planktivory and terrestrial organic matter: a model analysis of whole-lake experiments

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Rethinking resource allocation in science

scientific article published in 2019

Reversal of a cyanobacterial bloom in response to early warnings.

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Role of economics in analyzing the environment and sustainable development

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World

Scenario Studies as a Synthetic and Integrative Research Activity for Long-Term Ecological Research

Scenarios for Ecosystem Services: An Overview

scholarly article by Stephen R. Carpenter et al published 2006 in Ecology and Society

Scenarios reveal pathways to sustain future ecosystem services in an agricultural landscape

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Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

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Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Social norms as solutions

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Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters

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Sources and fates of dissolved organic carbon in lakes as determined by whole-lake carbon isotope additions

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Spatial early warning signals in a lake manipulation

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Spatial heterogeneity strongly affects estimates of ecosystem metabolism in two north temperate lakes

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Stability and diversity of ecosystems

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State of the World's Freshwater Ecosystems: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Changes

article by Stephen R. Carpenter et al published 21 November 2011 in Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Stemflow chemistry: Effects on population dynamics of detritivorous mosquitoes in tree-hole ecosystems

scientific article published in April 1982

Stocking Strategies for Fingerling Walleyes: An Individual-Based Model Approach

scientific article published on 01 August 1991

Strong evidence for terrestrial support of zooplankton in small lakes based on stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen

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Temporal Variation in a Paleolimnological Record Arising from a Trophic Cascade

scientific article published in 1991

Terrestrial support of pelagic consumers: patterns and variability revealed by a multilake study

article by Grace M. Wilkinson et al published 21 June 2013 in Freshwater Biology

Terrestrial, benthic, and pelagic resource use in lakes: results from a three-isotope Bayesian mixing model

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Terrestrial, benthic, and pelagic resource use in lakes: results from a three-isotope Bayesian mixing model

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The Influence of Legacy P on Lake Water Quality in a Midwestern Agricultural Watershed

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The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management

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The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America

scientific article published in 1991

The consistency of a species' response to press perturbations with high food web uncertainty

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The effects of an exotic fish invasion on the prey communities of two lakes

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Trading carbon for food: global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

scientific article (publication date: 16 November 2010)

Transnational corporations and the challenge of biosphere stewardship

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

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Trophic cascades revealed in diverse ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: December 1999)

Turning back from the brink: detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it

scientific article (publication date: 20 January 2009)

Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts

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

Understanding relationships among ecosystem services across spatial scales and over time

scholarly article by Jiangxiao Qiu et al published 1 May 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Use of deep autochthonous resources by zooplankton: Results of a metalimnetic addition of13C to a small lake

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Voices from the field: perspectives from community health workers on health care delivery in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in December 2007

What is the influence of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes? A systematic review

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What is the influence on water quality in temperate eutrophic lakes of a reduction of planktivorous and benthivorous fish? A systematic review protocol

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Whole-lake addition of coarse woody habitat: response of fish populations

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Whole-lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs

scientific article published in Nature

With and without warning: managing ecosystems in a changing world

scholarly article by Michael Pace published in November 2015

Zooplankton provide early warnings of a regime shift in a whole lake manipulation

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