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Overview

Brian C. Weidel is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and aquatic systems.

The main fields of study covered by Brian C. Weidel include:

  • Environmental Science

Within this domain, their work spans important subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Aquatic Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Chemistry

The research themes explored by Brian C. Weidel revolve around several core topics:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and Fisheries Research
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Recent published works include:

  • "Bioaccumulation of perfluoroalkyl substances in a Lake Ontario food web" (2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • "A science and management partnership to restore coregonine diversity to the Laurentian Great Lakes" (2023, Environmental Reviews)
  • "Contemporary spatial extent and environmental drivers of larval coregonine distributions across Lake Ontario" (2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • "Depth drives growth dynamics of dreissenid mussels in Lake Ontario" (2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • "Results of the collaborative Lake Ontario bloater restoration stocking and assessment, 2012-2020" (2021, Journal of Great Lakes Research)

Brian C. Weidel frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Ecology Of Freshwater Fish
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Environmental Reviews

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael J. Connerton
  • David B. Bunnell
  • Jeremy P. Holden
  • Brian P. O'Malley
  • Brian F. Lantry

Best Publications

  • Early Warnings of Regime Shifts: A Whole-Ecosystem Experiment

    S. R. Carpenter;J. J. Cole;M. L. Pace;R. Batt

  • Stable Isotope Turnover and Half-Life in Animal Tissues: A Literature Synthesis

    M. Jake Vander Zanden;Murray K. Clayton;Eric K. Moody;Eric K. Moody;Christopher T. Solomon

  • Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    Christopher T. Solomon;Stuart E. Jones;Brian C. Weidel;Ishi Buffam

  • Strong evidence for terrestrial support of zooplankton in small lakes based on stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen

    Jonathan J. Cole;Stephen R. Carpenter;Jim Kitchell;Michael L. Pace

  • Changing Ecosystem Dynamics in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Regulation

    David B. Bunnell;Richard P. Barbiero;Stuart A. Ludsin;Charles P. Madenjian

  • Terrestrial, benthic, and pelagic resource use in lakes: results from a three-isotope Bayesian mixing model

    Christopher T. Solomon;Stephen R. Carpenter;Murray K. Clayton;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Rates and components of carbon turnover in fish muscle: insights from bioenergetics models and a whole-lake 13C addition

    Brian C. WeidelB.C. Weidel;Stephen R. CarpenterS.R. Carpenter;James F. KitchellJ.F. Kitchell;M. Jake Vander ZandenM.J. Vander Zanden

  • Does terrestrial organic carbon subsidize the planktonic food web in a clear-water lake?

    Michael L. Pace;Stephen R. Carpenter;Jonathan J. Cole;James J. Coloso

  • The influence of environmental water on the hydrogen stable isotope ratio in aquatic consumers

    Christopher T. Solomon;Jonathan J. Cole;Richard R. Doucett;Michael L. Pace

  • Terrestrial carbon is a resource, but not a subsidy, for lake zooplankton.

    Patrick T. Kelly;Christopher T. Solomon;Brian C. Weidel;Stuart E. Jones

  • Overcompensatory response of a smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) population to harvest: release from competition?

    Elise F. ZipkinE.F. Zipkin;Elise F. ZipkinE.F. Zipkin;Elise F. ZipkinE.F. Zipkin;Patrick J. SullivanP.J. Sullivan;Patrick J. SullivanP.J. Sullivan;Patrick J. SullivanP.J. Sullivan;Evan G. CoochE.G. Cooch;Evan G. CoochE.G. Cooch;Evan G. CoochE.G. Cooch;Clifford E. KraftC.E. Kraft;Clifford E. KraftC.E. Kraft;Clifford E. KraftC.E. Kraft

  • Littoral Fish Community Response to Smallmouth Bass Removal from an Adirondack Lake

    Brian C. Weidel;Daniel C. Josephson;Clifford E. Kraft

  • Subsidy or subtraction: how do terrestrial inputs influence consumer production in lakes?

    Stuart Edward Jones;Christopher Solomon;Brian Weidel

  • Metabolic and physiochemical responses to a whole-lake experimental increase in dissolved organic carbon in a north-temperate lake

    Jacob A. Zwart;Nicola Craig;Patrick T. Kelly;Stephen D. Sebestyen

  • Habitat, not resource availability, limits consumer production in lake ecosystems

    Nicola Craig;Stuart E. Jones;Brian C. Weidel;Christopher T. Solomon

  • Rapid food web recovery in response to removal of an introduced apex predator

    Jesse M. Lepak;Clifford E. Kraft;Brian C. Weidel

  • Evaluating recreational fisheries for an endangered species: a case study of taimen, Hucho taimen, in Mongolia

    Olaf P. JensenO.P. Jensen;David J. GilroyD.J. Gilroy;Zeb HoganZ. Hogan;Brant C. AllenB.C. Allen

  • Carbon sources supporting fish growth in a north temperate lake

    Brian Weidel;Stephen Carpenter;Jonathan Cole;James Hodgson

  • Diary of a bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus): daily δ 13 C and δ 18 O records in otoliths by ion microprobe

    Brian C. Weidel;Takayuki Ushikubo;Stephen R. Carpenter;Noriko T. Kita

  • Diet and trophic niche space and overlap of Lake Ontario salmonid species using stable isotopes and stomach contents

    James A. Mumby;Sarah M. Larocque;Timothy B. Johnson;Thomas J. Stewart

  • Terrestrial, benthic, and pelagic resource use in lakes: results from a three-isotope Bayesian mixing model.

    Murray K Clayton;Brian C. Weidel;Adri G M Zanden;James R Carpenter

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars G. Rudstam
Lars G. Rudstam Cornell University
Stuart E. Jones
Stuart E. Jones University of Notre Dame
James F. Kitchell
James F. Kitchell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael L. Pace
Michael L. Pace University of Virginia
Jonathan J. Cole
Jonathan J. Cole New York Botanical Garden
Clifford E. Kraft
Clifford E. Kraft Cornell University
M. Jake Vander Zanden
M. Jake Vander Zanden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Aaron T. Fisk
Aaron T. Fisk University of Windsor
David B. Bunnell
David B. Bunnell United States Geological Survey

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