Recent Publications

BSc Thesis

  • Dixon, Krystal. 2024. Comparing Lake Sturgeon growth across water bodies in New York State using size-at-age comparisons, von Bertalanffy growth curves, and age-length keys. Advisor Zoe Almeida
  • Gifford, Wiley C. 2024. Zebra and quagga mussel condition factors in upstate New York lakes. Advisors Rudstam and David Andrews

Master's Thesis

  • Marshall, Christopher. 2024. Overlooked and understudied: a survey of the small and hidden freshwater invertebrate taxa (phylum Rotifera and subphylum Crustacea). Advisors Watkins & Rudstam
  • Whitmore-Stolar, Elizabeth. 2024. Improved detection of non-native Cladocera in the Laurentian Great Lakes.  Advisors Watkins & Rudstam

Journal articles

Oneida Lake, inland lakes & global comparisons

  • Adamovich, BV, OA Makarevich, AY Karatayev, LG Rudstam, RA Kavalevskaya, MA Baturina, TV Zhukova, 2024. Temporal and spatial distribution of macrobenthos in three polymictic lakes of different trophic state: a case study of the Narochianskie Lakes (Belarus). Hydrobiologia, 851:1335-1351. doi.org/10.1007/s10750-023-05395-0
  • Jackson, JR, GR Jacobs, AW Latzka, T Landsman, BP Young, AR McCune. 2024. Spawning migration, sex‑specific home ranges, and seasonal site fidelity in a lacustrine population of Bowfin (Amia ocellicauda). Environmental Biology of Fishes on line.
  • Jackson, WE, AE Hopkins, RM Jodziewicz, SA Oswald, RS Hartman, MS LaBarr, PD Curtis, JM Arnold. 2024. In Press. Can artificial light deter nocturnal predators at Common Tern nesting sites? An experimental study. Waterbirds.
  • Jin, Zong’an, H Jin, B Gao, C Tong, E Jeppesen, LG Rudstam, HJ Dumont, M de los Ángeles González Sagrario, V Razlutskij, Z Liu, Y Tang, X Zhang. 2024. Effects of filter-feeding bivalves in benthic and pelagic habitats on plankton community and water quality in shallow systems: implications for lake rehabilitation. Aquatic Ecology. On line. doi.org/10.1007/s10452-024-10147-w.
  • Koenigbauer, ST, ZS Feiner, B Dickinson, SL Shaw, LZ Almeida, MR DuFour, AJ Gatch, C Schraidt, TO Höök. 2024. Egg size scales negatively with system size in a periodic fish species. Ecol Evol, 14: e70426. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70426.
  • Lisboa, MS, RL Schneider, LG Rudstam, MT Walter. 2024. Groundwater inputs could be a significant but often overlooked source of phosphorus in lake ecosystems. Scientific Reports 14: 16269.
  • McCaffrey, L, AL Koeberle. 2024. An economical open‐source lagrangian drifter design to measure deep currents in lakes. Water Resources Research 60:.e2024WR037429
  • Mei, X, L Zhang, V Razlustkij, BV Adamovich, ZS Liu, M Meerhoff, E Jeppesen, LG Rudstam, HJ Dumont, Z Zhang. 2024. Effects of omnivorous tilapia on phytoplankton and water quality in an ecosystem with submerged macrophytes. Hydrobiologia 851:1711-1722.
  • Oleksy, IA, CT Solomon, SE Jones, C Olson, BL Bertolet, R Adrian, S Bansal, JS Baron, S Brothers, S Chandra, HM Chou, W Colom‐Montero, J Culpepper, E de Eyto, MJ Farragher, S Hilt, KT Holeck, G Kazanjian, M Klaus, J Klug, J Köhler, A Laas, E Lundin, AH Parkes, KC Rose, LG Rudstam, J Rusak, F Scordo, MJ Vanni, P Verburg, GA Weyhenmeyer. 2024. Controls on lake pelagic primary productivity: Formalizing the nutrient‐color paradigm. J Geophysical Res: Biogeosciences 129: e2024JG008140. doi 10.1029/2024JG008140
  • Oswald, SA, JM Arnold. 2024. Challenges of quantifying direct heat stress effects of climate change on seabirds. Mar Ecol Progr Ser, 737: 25-29. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14324
  • Sethi SA, AL Koeberle, AJ Poulton, DW Linden, D Diefenbach, F Buderman, MJ Casalena, K Duren. 2024. Multistage time-to-event models improve survival inference by partitioning mortality processes of tracked organisms. Scientific Reports, 14:14628
  • Wang, L, L Ren, B Gao, E Jeppesen, LG Rudstam, M Karpowicz, I Feniova, Z Liu, Y Tang, X Zhang. 2024. The golden apple snail Pomacea canaliculata shifts primary production from benthic to pelagic habitats in simulated shallow lake systems. Knowledge Manage Aquat Ecosystems 425: 13. doi: 10.1051/kmae/2024009

Great Lakes related

  • Almeida, LZ, SA Ludsin, MD Faust, EA Marschall. 2024. Lingering legacies: Past growth and parental experience influence somatic growth in a fish population. J Animal Ecol. 93: 1462-1474. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14143.
  • Barbiero, RP, LE Burlakova, JM Watkins, AY Karatayev, BM Lesht. 2024. The benthic nepheloid layer in the offshore waters of the Great Lakes and its post-dreissenid disappearance. J Great Lakes Res. 50: 102408
  • Brown, TA, LG Rudstam, SA Sethi, C Hessell, E Olsen, JL Jonas, BJ Rook, SA Pothoven, SJH Beech, ES Dunlop, S James, JB Smith, ZJ Amidon, DD Carl, DB Bunnell, RW Tingley III, BC Weidel, AE Honsey. 2024. Synthesizing professional opinion of Lake Whitefish and Cisco recruitment drivers across the Great Lakes. Laurentian. 2024-01
  • Brown, TA, LG Rudstam, SA Sethi, P Ripple, JB Smith, TJ Treska, C Hessell, E Olsen, JX He, JL Jonas, BJ Rook, JE Blankenheim, SJH Beech, E Brown, EK Berglund, HA Cook, ES Dunlop, S James, SA Pothoven, ZJ Amidon, JA Sweka, DD Carl, SP Hansen, DB Bunnell, BC Weidel, AE Honsey. 2024. Reconstructing half a century of coregonine recruitment reveals species-specific dynamics and synchrony across the Laurentian Great Lakes.  ICES J Mar Sci.  Editor’s Choice article.
  • Budnik, RR, KT Frank, LM Collis, ME Fraker, LA Mason, AM Muir, SA Pothoven, DF Clapp, PD Collingsworth, JC Hoffman, JM Hood, TB Johnson, MA Koops, LG Rudstam, SA Ludsin. 2024. Feasibility of implementing an integrated long-term database to advance ecosystem-based management in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin. J Great Lakes Res. 50:102308.
  • Evans, TM, LG Rudstam, SA Sethi, DL Yule, DM Warner, SA Farha, AR Barnard, MR DuFour, TP O’Brien, KC Nasworthy, I Harding, BA Ray, E Isaac, J Blankenheim, HB Blair, JM Watkins, SA Senczyszyn, JJ Roberts, PC Esselman. 2024. Paired comparisons with quiet surface drones show evidence of fish behavioral response to motorized vessels during acoustic surveys in Lake Superior. Can J Fish Aquat Sci. 81:1740-1751. dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2024-0087
  • Figary, SE, JM Watkins, BT Lauber, AE Scofield, LG Rudstam. 2024. Revisiting zooplankton as indicators in the Great Lakes: what indicators summarize changes in the zooplankton community composition over time? J Great Lakes Res. 50:102417.
  • Gilbert, DS, BA Hayhurst, S Grubisich, N Schneider, O Martin, C DeNyse, NC Eddingsaas. 2024. A Bellwether for Microplastic in Wetland Catchments in the Great Lakes Region. J Great Lakes Res, 50:102411.
  • Karpowicz, M, D Karabanov, M Świsłocka-Cutter, L Sługocki, EA Whitmore-Stolar, JK Connolly, JM Watkins, AA Kotov. 2024. A rapid and parallel Late Pleistocene/Holocene morphological radiation in a predaceous planktonic water flea: the case of Bythotrephes (Cladocera: Cercopagididae). Zool J Linnean Soc 202.
  • Ludsin, SA, M Munawar, ET Howell, JT Tyson, JM Watkins. 2024. Ecology of Lake Erie – Chemistry, plankton & planktivory: A synthesis. Aquat. Ecosystem Health Manage. 27: 116-124.
  • Marshall, CC, JM Watkins, JK Connolly, PV Boynton, S Schaefer, WJS Currie, LG Rudstam. 2024. Drivers of seasonal succession and vertical distribution in the rotifer community of Lake Ontario in 2018. J Great Lakes Res. 50:102283.

Book chapters & report sections

  • Clapp, DF, AS Briggs, JM Hessenauer, JP Holden, JA Kerns, MS Kornis, RA Redman, LG Rudstam, SP Sitar. 2024. Chapter 12: Cool- and cold-water fish in North American (Laurentian) Great Lakes. Pages 235-267 in S S Bonar, N Mercado-Silva, KL Pope, editors. Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes, second edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Research & technical reports

  • Holeck, KT, LG Rudstam, C Hotaling, S Prindle, W Pearsall, J Lantry, M Connerton, C Legard, D Gorsky, C Farrell, B Lantry, B Weidel, B O’Malley. 2024. 2023 Status of the Lake Ontario lower trophic levels. NYSDEC Report.
  • Koops, MA, M Hossain, E Rutherford, DM Mason, H Zhang, G Arhonditsis, K Wehrly, L Rudstam, JR Jackson, C Chu, D de Kerckhove, W Fetzer, T Hartman. 2024. Project 2018_KOO_44075 GLFC Completion Report.
  • Stockwell, J, R Chapina, B O’Malley, Rudstam, L, B Weidel. 2024. Spatial variability and drivers of Mysis partial diel vertical migration. GLFC completion report.
  • VanDeValk, AJ, TE Brooking, CC Davis, Z Almeida, LG Rudstam, KT Holeck, C Hotaling. 2024. The fisheries and limnology of Oneida Lake, 2023. NYSDEC, Albany, NY.
  • Wilkins PD, KT Holeck. 2024. Lower trophic level monitoring program. NYSDEC 2024, Lake Erie Fisheries Research Unit 2023 Annual Report. NYSDEC, Albany, NY. Section J.
  • Woo, I, LG Rudstam, R Gregory, KF Robinson. 2024. SFHA Monitoring and Science Plans Peer Review Panel Final Letters. Report to the Delta Stewardship Council

Extension & outreach publications

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