Macrosystems Ecology Publications

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Macrosystems Science — Concepts

Wagner, T., C.E. Fergus, C.A. Stow, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2016. The statistical power to detect cross-scale interactions at macroscales. Ecosphere 7(7):e01417. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1417 Open Access

Heffernan*, J.B., P.A. Soranno*, M.J. Angilletta, L.B. Buckley, D.S. Gruner, T.H. Keitt, J.R. Kellner, J.S. Kominoski, A.V. Rocha1, J. Xiao, T.K. Harms, S.J. Goring, L.E. Koenig, W.H. McDowell, H. Powell, A.D. Richardson , C.A. Stow, R. Vargas, K.C. Weathers.  2014. Macrosystems ecology: Understanding ecological pattern and process at continental scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):5-14. doi: 10.1890/130017 Open-access

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, E. Bissell, M. Tate Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C.E. Fergus, C. Filstrup, N.R. Lottig, E.N. Henry, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2014.  Cross-scale interactions: Quantifying multi-scaled cause-effect relationships in macrosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):65-73. doi: 10.1890/120366 Open-access

Macrosystems Science — Spatial and temporal variation

Soranno, P.A.*, K.S. Cheruvelil*, B. Liu, Q. Wang, P.-N. Tan, J. Zhou, K.B.S. King, I.M. McCullough, J Stachelek, M. Bartley, C.T. Filstrup, E.M. Hanks, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2020. Ecological prediction at macroscales using big data: does sampling design matter? Ecological Applications. https://doi-org.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/10.1002/eap.2123 

Filstrup, C.T., K.B.S. King, I.M. McCullough. 2019. Evenness effects mask richness effects on ecosystem functioning at macro-scales in lakes. Ecology Letters 22(12): 2120-2129. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13407

King, K., K.S. Cheruvelil, and A. Pollard. 2019. Drivers and spatial structure of abiotic and biotic properties of lakes, wetlands, and streams at the national scale. Ecological Applications 29(7): e01957. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1957

Soranno*, P.A., T. Wagner*, S.M. Collins, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation of ecosystem properties at macroscales. Ecology Letters 22(10): 1587-1598. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13346

Lapierre, J.-F., Collins, S.M., Seekell, D.A., Cheruvelil, K.S., Skaff, N.K., Taranu, Z.E., Fergus. C.E., Tan. P.-N. and Soranno P.A. 2018. Similarity in spatial structure constrains ecosystem relationships: Building a macroscale understanding of lakes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27(10): 1251-1263. doi: 10.1111/geb.12781

Lottig, N., P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno, E. Stanley, C. Scott, C. Stow, S. Yuan. 2017. Macroscale patterns of synchrony identify complex relationships among spatial and temporal ecosystem drivers. Ecosphere 8(12):e02024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2024

Oliver, S.K., S.M. Collins, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner, E.H. Stanley, J. Jones, C. Stow, N. Lottig. 2017. Unexpected stasis in a changing world: Lake nutrient and chlorophyll trends since 1990. Global Change Biology 23:5455–5467  doi: 10.1111/gcb.13810

Lapierre, J.-F., D. Seekell, C.T. Filstrup, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, P.A. Soranno, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2017. Continental-scale variation in controls of summer CO2 in United States lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 122(4):875-885. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003525. PDF

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, M.T. Bremigan, and K.E. Webster. 2013. Multi-scaled drivers of ecosystem state: Quantifying the importance of the regional spatial scale.  Ecological Applications. 23:1603-1618. doi: 10.1890/12-1872.1  PDF

Macrosystems Science — Global change and Conservation

McCullough, I.M., King, K.B.S., Stachelek, J., Diaz, J., Soranno P.A. and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. Applying the patch-matrix model to lakes: a connectivity-based conservation framework. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00915-7

McCullough, I.M., N.K. Skaff, P.A. Soranno, and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2019. No lake left behind: How well do U.S. protected areas meet lake conservation targets? Limnology & Oceanography Letters. 4(6):183-192. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10123

McCullough, I.M., K.S. Cheruvelil, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, M.A. Moritz, J. Stachelek, P.A. Soranno. 2019. Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental U.S. Global Change Biology 25(9): 2841-2854.  http://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14732

Seekell, D., J.-F. Lapierre, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2018. The geography of lake carbon cycling. Limnology & Oceanography Letters 3: 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10078

Macrosystems Science — Evaluating broad-scaled datasets

Poisson*, A.C., I.M. McCullough*, K.S. Cheruvelil, K.C. Elliott, J.A. Latimore, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Quantifying the contribution of citizen science to broad-scale ecological databases. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(1):19-26. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2128

Stanley, E.H., S.M. Collins, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, K.E. Webster, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Biases in lake water quality sampling and implications for macroscale research. Limnology & Oceanography. 64(4):1572-1585. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11136

Stow, C.A., K.E. Webster, T. Wagner, N.R. Lottig, P.A. Soranno, and Y-K. Cha. 2018. Small values in big data: The continuing need for appropriate metadata. Ecological Informatics 45:26-30.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.03.002

Oliver, S.K., P.A. Soranno, E. Fergus, T. Wagner, L.A. Winslow, C.E. Scott, K.E. Webster, J.A. Downing, and E.H. Stanley. 2016. Prediction of lake depth across a 17-state region in the United States. Inland Waters 6:314-324. doi: 10.5268/IW-6.3.957 PDF

Landscape Limnology

Stachelek, J., Weng, W., Carey, C.C., Kemanian, A.R., Cobourn, K.M., Wagner, T., Weathers, K.C., Soranno, P.A., 2020. Granular measures of agricultural land-use influence lake nitrogen and phosphorus differently at macroscales. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2187

Zhongyao Liang, Patricia A. Soranno, Tyler Wagner. 2020. The role of phosphorus and nitrogen on chlorophyll a: Evidence from hundreds of lakes. Water Research 185:116236 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116236.

Wagner, T., N.R. Lottig, M.L. Bartley, E.M. Hanks, E.M. Schliep, N.B. Wikle, K.B.S. King, I. McCullough, J. Stachelek, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.T. Filstrup, J.-F. Lapierre, B. Liu, P.A. Soranno, P.-N. Tan, Q. Wang, K.E. Webster, J. Zhou. 2020. Increasing accuracy of lake nutrient predictions in thousands of lakes by leveraging water clarity data. Limnology & Oceanography Letters 5(2):228-235. https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lol2.10134

Qian, S.S., C.A. Stow, A.F. Nojavan, J. Stachelek, Y. Cha, I. Alameddine, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. The implications of Simpson’s paradox for cross-scale inference among lakes. Water Research 163: e114855.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2019.114855

Stachelek, J. and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Does freshwater connectivity influence phosphorus retention in lakes? Limnology and Oceanography. 64(4): 1586-1599. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11137

Collins, S.M., Yuan, S., Tan, P.N., Oliver, S.K., Lapierre, J.F., Cheruvelil, K.S., Fergus, C.E., Skaff, N.K., Stachelek, J., Wagner, T., Soranno, P.A. 2019. Winter precipitation and summer temperature predict lake water quality at macroscales. Water Resources Research 55(4):2708-2721. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023088

McCullough, I. M., Cheruvelil, K. S., Collins, S. C. and P. A. Soranno. 2019. Geographic patterns of the climate sensitivity of lakes. Ecological Applications 29(2):e01836. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1836

Wagner, T. and E.M. Schliep. 2018. Combining nutrient, productivity, and landscape-based regressions improves predictions of lake nutrients and provides insight into nutrient coupling at macroscales. Limnology and Oceanography 63:2372-2383.  https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10944

Filstrup, C. T., Wagner, T., Oliver, S. K., Stow, C. A., Webster, K. E., Stanley, E. H. and Downing, J. A. 2017. Evidence for regional nitrogen stress on chlorophyll a in lakes across large landscape and climate gradients. Limnology and Oceanography 63(S1): S324-S339. doi:10.1002/lno.10742

Fergus, C. E., J. F. Lapierre, S. K. Oliver, N. K. Skaff, K. S. Cheruvelil, K. Webster, C. Scott, and P. Soranno. 2017. The freshwater landscape: lake, wetland, and stream abundance and connectivity at macroscales. Ecosphere 8(8):e01911. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1911 

Collins, S.M., S.K. Oliver, J.-F. Lapierre, E.H. Stanley, J. Jones, T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno. 2017. Lake nutrient stoichiometry is less predictable than nutrient concentrations at regional and sub-continental scales. Ecological Applications 27(5): 1529–1540. doi: 10.1002/eap.1545. PDF

Fergus, C.E., A.O. Finley, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner. 2016. Spatial variation in nutrient and water color effects on lake chlorophyll at macroscales. PloS ONE. 11(10): e0164592. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0164592 Open access

Skaff, N.K., K.S. Cheruvelil. 2016. Fine-scale wetland features mediate vector and climate-dependent macroscale patterns in human West Nile virus incidence. Landscape Ecology 31(7):1615-1628. doi:10.1007/s10980-016-0346-1 PDF

Filstrup, C.T., T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, K.E. Webster, and J.A. Downing. 2014. Regional variability among nonlinear chlorophyll-phosphorus relationships in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 59(5):1691-1703. doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.5.1691 PDF

Lottig, N.R., T. Wagner. E.N. Henry, K.S. Cheruvelil, K.E. Webster, J.A. Downing, and C.A. Stow. 2014. Long-term citizen-collected data reveal geographical patterns and temporal trends in lake water clarity. PLoS ONE 9(4): e95769. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0095769 Open-access

Limnology

Soranno, P.A., K.E. Webster, N.J. Smith, J. Diaz Vazquez, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2020. What’s in a “lake” name? That which we call a lake by any other name. Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin 29(1):1-7. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10355

Stanley, E.H., S. Salzaar, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, C.T. Filstrup and S.M. Collins. 2019. Comparison of total nitrogen data from direct and Kjeldahl-based approaches in integrated datasets. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10338

Filstrup, C. T., and Downing, J. A. 2017. Relationship of chlorophyll to phosphorus and nitrogen in nutrient-rich lakes. Inland Waters 7:385-400. doi: 10.1080/20442041.2017.1375176

Macrosystems Ecology Approaches

Levy, O., B.A. Ball, B. Bond-Lamberty, K.S. Cheruvelil, A.O. Finley, N. Lottig, S. Punyasena, J. Xiao, J. Zhou, L.B. Buckley, J. Clark, C.T. Filstrup, T. Keitt, J.R. Kellner, A.K. Knapp, A. Richardson, C. Stow, D. Tcheng, M. Toomey, R. Vargas, J.W. Voordeckers, T. Wagner, J.W. Williams. 2014. Approaches for advancing scientific understanding of macrosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12: 15-23. doi: 10.1890/130019 Open-access

Ruegg, J., C. Gries, B. Bond-Lamberty, G.J. Bowen, B.S. Felzer, N.E. McIntyre, P.A. Soranno, K.L. Vanderbilt, K.C. Weathers. 2014. Completing the data life cycle: Using information management in macrosystems ecology research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):24-30. doi: 10.1890/120375 Open-access