Studies across North America and the World

The long-term data available from Oneida Lake are invaluable for documenting changes associated with invasive species, management, and climate change. But it is only one lake, and we rely on comparisons of our data sets with lakes around the world to deduce general trends. Many of the projects are through the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON). As a site member of GLEON, CBFS are partners in several projects that benefit from comparative approaches to limnology and lake – watershed interactions. Several GLEON projects using Oneida data were active in 2023. Additional projects outside GLEON have developed through the interests of the scientific community in the Oneida data independent of GLEON including one on walleye recruitment. These projects provide important insights into the structure and function of lake ecosystems worldwide. In addition, Rudstam works with collaborators in China that builds on work done at CBFS by Chinese scholars Zhang Xuifeng and Mei Xiuying, who spend one to two years at CBFS in 2015-17. To facilitate this use, we have made 10 datasets available (walleye, yellow perch, gillnet catches, trawl catches, limnology, phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthic invertebrates, ice cover, dreissenid mussels) through the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (www/knb.org) data archiving system and update these data sets each year.