Lars Rudstam

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Zoology, B.Sc., 1978
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Limnology, M. Sc., 1983
• University of Stockholm, Sweden, Marine Biology, Ph.D., 1988
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Limnology, Postdoc, 1989-1992

Rudstam’s research is at the interface between basic and applied science with special interest in food web dynamics and the interactions between fisheries management and ecosystem processes. He is also interested in spatial and temporal patterns of animal distributions and what causes those patterns, partly because heterogeneity in the different organisms’ response to space and time affect food webs and ecosystem dynamics. Currently, he works with lower trophic levels and fisheries across the Great Lakes, from Lake Superior to Lake Ontario, with long term analysis of ecosystem processes in Oneida Lake, and with comparative analyses of aquatic ecosystems across the globe. He teaches fish ecology and work with managers, mostly in New York and Canada, as part of technical committees.

Selected Publications

• Bunnell, DB, SA Ludsin, RL Knight, LG Rudstam, CE Williamson, TO Höök, PD Collingsworth, BM Lesht, RP Barbiero, AE Scofield, ES Rutherford, L Gaynor, HA Vanderploeg, MA Koops. 2021. Consequences of changing water clarity on the fish and fisheries of the Laurentian Great Lakes. . Can J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. In press
• Scofield, AE, JM Watkins, E Osantowski. LG Rudstam, 2020. Deep chlorophyll maxima across a productivity gradient: A case study in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 64:2460-2484
• Stockwell, JD., BP O'Malley, S Hansson, RJ Chapina, LG Rudstam, BC Weidel. 2020. Benthic habitat is an integral part of Mysis ecology. Freshw. Biol. 65:1997–2009.
• Scofield, AE, JM Watkins, LG Rudstam. 2020. Heterogeneity in zooplankton distributions and diel vertical migrations: Application of a laser optical plankton counter in offshore Lake Michigan. J. Great Lakes Res. 46:780-797
• Rudstam, LG, CJ Gandino. 2020. Zebra or quagga mussel dominance depends on trade-offs between growth and defense-Field support from Onondaga Lake, NY. PLoS One 15:e0235387
• Schaffner, LL, Govaert, L De Meester, SP Ellner, E Fairchild, BE Miner, LG Rudstam, P Spaak, NG Hairston Jr. 2019. Consumer-resource dynamics is an eco-evolutionary process in a natural plankton community. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:1251-1258
• Barbiero, R P, L G Rudstam, J M Watkins, and B Lesht. 2019. A cross-lake comparison of crustacean zooplankton communities in the Great Lakes 1997-2016. J. Great Lakes Res. 45:672-690
• Hetherington, AL, LG Rudstam, RL Schneider, KT Holeck, CW Hotaling, JE Cooper, and JR Jackson. 2019. Invader invaded: population dynamics of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussels (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) in polymictic Oneida Lake, NY, USA (1992-2013). Biological Invasions 21:1529-1544
• Macura, B, P Byström, L Airoldi, B K Eriksson, L Rudstam, and J Støttrup. 2019. Impact of structural habitat modifications in coastal temperate systems on fish recruitment: a systematic review. Environmental Evidence 8:14

• NTRES 3110 (Lec) and 3111 (Lab): Fish Ecology, Conservation and Management