Joint-first authors indicated by *
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