Publications

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.

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

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

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 

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

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

​Bartley, M.L., E.M. Hanks, E.M. Schliep, P.A. Soranno, and T. Wagner. 2019. Identifying and characterizing extrapolation in multivariate response data. PLOS ONE 14(12): e0225715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225715

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soranno, P.A. 2019. Six simple steps to share your data when publishing research articles. Limnology & Oceanography Bulletin 28(2):41-44. https://doi.org/10.1002/lob.10303

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

Cheruvelil, K.S. and P.A. Soranno. 2018. Data-intensive ecological research is catalyzed by open science and team science. BioScience. 68(10):813-822. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biy097

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 

Liu, B., Tan, P.N., and Zhou, J. 2018. Enhancing Predictive Modeling of Nested Spatial Data through Group-Level Feature Disaggregation, Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 19-23, 2018. doi: 10.1145/3219819.3220091

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

Wang, Qi, Pang-Ning Tan, and Jiayu Zhou. 2018. Imputing Structured Missing Values in Spatial Data with Clustered Adversarial Matrix Factorization. In Data Mining (ICDM), 2018 IEEE 18th International Conference on, IEEE. 17-20 November 2018. doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2018.00173

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

Oliver, S.K. C.E. Fergus, N.K. Skaff, T. Wagner, P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno. 2018. Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science. Ecosphere 9(4): e02206.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2206

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

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

Yuan, S., J. Zhou, P.N. Tan, C.E. Fergus, T. Wagner, T., P.A. Soranno. 2017. Multi-Level Multi-Task Learning for Modeling Cross-Scale Interactions in Nested Geospatial Data. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 18-21 (2017).

Soranno, P.A., L.C. Bacon, M. Beauchene, K.E. Bednar, E.G. Bissell, C.K. Boudreau, M.G. Boyer, M.T. Bremigan, S.R. Carpenter, J.W. Carr, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, M. Claucherty, S.M. Collins, J.D. Conroy, J.A. Downing, J. Dukett, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, C. Funk, M.J. Gonzalez, L.T. Green, C. Gries, J.D. Halfman, S.K. Hamilton, P.C. Hanson, E.N. Henry, E.M. Herron, C. Hockings, J.R. Jackson, K. Jacobson-Hedin, L.L. Janus, W.W. Jones, J.R. Jones, C.M. Keson, K.B.S. King, S.A. Kishbaugh, J.-F. Lapierre, B. Lathrop, J.A. Latimore, Y. Lee, N.R. Lottig, J.A. Lynch, L.J. Matthews, W.H. McDowell, K.E.B. Moore, B.P. Neff, S.J. Nelson, S.K. Oliver, M.L. Pace, D.C. Pierson, A.C. Poisson, A.I. Pollard, D.M. Post, P.O. Reyes, D.O. Rosenberry, K.M. Roy, L.G. Rudstam, O. Sarnelle, N.J. Schuldt, C.E. Scott, N.K. Skaff, N.J. Smith, N.R. Spinelli, J.J. Stachelek, E.H. Stanley, J.L. Stoddard, S.B. Stopyak, C.A. Stow, J.M. Tallant, P.-N. Tan, A.P. Thorpe, M.J. Vanni, T. Wagner, G. Watkins, K.C. Weathers, K.E. Webster, J.D. White, M.K. Wilmes, S. Yuan. 2017. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes.  Gigascience 6(12)   https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/gix101

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  

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

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

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

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

Yuan, S., P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.E. Fergus, N.K. Skaff, and P.A. Soranno. 2017. Hash-based feature learning for incomplete continuous-valued data. Proceedings of the 2017 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. Houston, Texas. April 27-29, 2017. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611974973.76 PDF 

Resnik, D.B., K.C. Elliott, P.A. Soranno, and E.M. Smith. 2017. Data-intensive science and research integrity. Accountability in Research. 24(6):344-358. doi: 10.1080/08989621.2017.1327813

Cheruvelil, K.S., S. Yuan, K.E. Webster, P.-N. Tan, J.-F. Lapierre, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.E. Scott, E.N. Henry, P.A. Soranno, C.T. Filstrup, T. Wagner. 2017. Creating multi-themed ecological regions for macrosystems ecology: Testing a flexible, repeatable, and accessible clustering method. Ecology and Evolution 7: 3046–3058. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2884 Open access

Elliott, K.C., I.S. Settles, G.M. Montgomery, S.T. Brassel, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2017. Honorary authorship practices in environmental science teams: structural and cultural causes and solutions. Accountability in Research: Policies and quality assurance 24(2):80-98.  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

Elliott, K.C., K.S. Cheruvelil, G.M. Montgomery, and Soranno, P.A.. 2016. Conceptions of good science in our data-rich world. BioScience 66(10) 1-10. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biw115 Open access   *Selected to be Editors’ Choice. 

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

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

Yuan, S., P.-N. Tan, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.M. Collins, and P.A. Soranno. 2015. Constrained spectral clustering for regionalization: Exploring the trade-off between spatial contiguity and landscape homogeneity. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics.  19-21 October 2015. Pg 1-10. doi:10.1109/DSAA.2015.7344878 PDF

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

Soranno, P.A., E.G. Bissell, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, C.E. Scott, N.J. Smith, S. Stopyak, S. Yuan, M.T. Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C. Gries, E.N. Henry, N.K. Skaff, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.E. Webster. 2015. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: Fostering open science and data reuse. GigaScience 4:28 doi:10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4. Open access

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, K.C. Elliott, and G.M. Montgomery. 2015. It’s good to share: Why environmental scientists’ ethics are out of date. BioScience 65(1):69-73. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu169. Open access

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

Soranno, P.A., and D.S. Schimel. Macrosystems ecology: Big data, big ecology. 2014. Guest editorial in the special issue on Macrosystems Ecology in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):3. doi: 10.1890/1540-9295-12.1.3 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

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

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

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

Goring, S., K. Weathers, W.K. Dodds, P.A. Soranno, L. Sweet, K.S. Cheruvelil, J. Kominoski, J. Ruegg, A. Thorn, R. Utz. 2014. Improving the culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology by expanding the measures of success. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):39-47. doi: 10.1890/120370 Open-access

Cheruvelil, K.S., P.A. Soranno, K.C. Weathers, P.C. Hanson, S. Goring, C.T. Filstrup, and E.K. Read. 2014. Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 12(1):31-38. doi: 10.1890/130001 Open-access

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

Winslow, L.A., J.S. Read, P.C. Hanson, and E.H. Stanley. 2013. Lake shoreline in the contiguous United States: quantity, distribution and sensitivity to observation resolution. Freshwater Biology 59:213-223. doi: 10.1111/fwb.12258 PDF

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