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Overview

Katherine E. Webster is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within Environmental Science, with a focus on Water Science and Technology, Oceanography, Ecological Modeling, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology. The work addresses topics related to Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Several papers authored or coauthored by Webster reflect the scope and depth of their research:

  • <scp>LAGOS-US LOCUS</scp> v1.0: Data module of location, identifiers, and physical characteristics of lakes and their watersheds in the conterminous <scp>U.S.</scp>, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Ecological prediction at macroscales using big data: Does sampling design matter?, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Abrupt changes in algal biomass of thousands of US lakes are related to climate and are more likely in low-disturbance watersheds, 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A continuous classification of the 476,697 lakes of the conterminous US based on geographic archetypes, 2023, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Taking a macroscale perspective to improve understanding of shallow lake total phosphorus and chlorophyll a, 2022, Hydrobiologia

Webster frequently collaborates with a group of researchers, with multiple joint publications. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Patricia A. Soranno
  • Kendra Spence Cheruvelil
  • Ian M. McCullough
  • Tyler Wagner
  • Patrick J. Hanly

Their contributions have appeared across a range of publication venues, particularly:

  • Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Limnology and Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Regional trends in aquatic recovery from acidification in North America and Europe

    J. L. Stoddard;D. S. Jeffries;A. Lükewille;T. A. Clair

  • POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGES ON AQUATIC SYSTEMS: LAURENTIAN GREAT LAKES AND PRECAMBRIAN SHIELD REGION

    J. J. Magnuson;K. E. Webster;K. E. Webster;R. A. Assel;C. J. Bowser

  • The influence of landscape position on lakes in northern Wisconsin

    Timothy Kratz;Katherine Webster;Katherine Webster;Carl Bowser;John Maguson

  • Some size-dependent inhibitions of larger cladoceran filterers in filamentous suspensions

    Katherine Emerson Webster;Robert Henry Peters

  • The influence of landscape position on lake chemical responses to drought in northern Wisconsin

    Katherine E. Webster;Timothy K. Kratz;Carl J. Bowser;John J. Magnuson

  • Spatial Variation among Lakes within Landscapes: Ecological Organization along Lake Chains

    Patricia A. Soranno;Katherine E. Webster;Joan L. Riera;Timothy K. Kratz

  • A geomorphic template for the analysis of lake districts applied to the Northern Highland Lake District, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

    JoaN. L. Riera;JohN. J. Magnuson;TiM. K. Kratz;Katherine E. Webster

  • Cross‐scale interactions: quantifying multi‐scaled cause–effect relationships in macrosystems

    Patricia A. Soranno;Kendra S. Cheruvelil;Edward G. Bissell;Mary T. Bremigan

  • Structuring features of lake districts: landscape controls on lake chemical responses to drought

    Katherine E. Webster;Patricia A. Soranno;Stephen B. Baines;Timothy K. Kratz

  • SYNCHRONOUS BEHAVIOR OF TEMPERATURE, CALCIUM, AND CHLOROPHYLL IN LAKES OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN

    Stephen B. Baines;Katherine E. Webster;Timothy K. Kratz;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Using Landscape Limnology to Classify Freshwater Ecosystems for Multi-ecosystem Management and Conservation

    Patricia A. Soranno;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil;Katherine E. Webster;Mary T. Bremigan

  • LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of US lakes

    Patricia A. Soranno;Linda C. Bacon;Michael Beauchene;Karen E. Bednar

  • Comparisons between experimentally- and atmospherically-acidified lakes during stress and recovery

    D. W. Schindler;T. M. Frost;K. H. Mills;P. S. S. Chang

  • Effects of Land Use on Lake Nutrients: The Importance of Scale, Hydrologic Connectivity, and Region.

    Patricia A. Soranno;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil;Tyler Wagner;Katherine E. Webster

  • Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate data sources: fostering open science and data reuse

    Patricia A. Soranno;Edward G. Bissell;Kendra S. Cheruvelil;Samuel T. Christel

  • Experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin : chemical and biological changes over the pH range 6.1 to 4.7

    P. L. Brezonik;J. G. Eaton;T. M. Frost;P. J. Garrison

  • Regional variability among nonlinear chlorophyll-phosphorus relationships in lakes

    Christopher T. Filstrup;Tyler Wagner;Patricia A. Soranno;Emily H. Stanley

  • An empirical evaluation of the nutrient‐color paradigm for lakes

    Katherine E. Webster;Patricia A. Soranno;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil;Mary T. Bremigan

  • Long-term citizen-collected data reveal geographical patterns and temporal trends in lake water clarity.

    Noah R. Lottig;Tyler Wagner;Emily Norton Henry;Emily Norton Henry;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil

  • Landscape drivers of regional variation in the relationship between total phosphorus and chlorophyll in lakes

    Tyler Wagner;Patricia A. Soranno;Katherine E. Webster;Katherine E. Webster;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil;Kendra Spence Cheruvelil

  • Multiple stresses from a single agent: Diverse responses to the experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin

    Thomas M. Frost;Pamela K. Montz;Timothy K. Kratz;Tracy Badillo

  • Experimental acidification of Little Rock Lake, Wisconsin

    P. L. Brezonik;Lawrence A Baker;J. R. Eaton;J. R. Eaton;T. M. Frost;T. M. Frost

  • Biases in lake water quality sampling and implications for macroscale research

    Emily H. Stanley;Sarah M. Collins;Noah R. Lottig;Samantha K. Oliver

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia A. Soranno
Patricia A. Soranno Michigan State University
Tyler Wagner
Tyler Wagner United States Geological Survey
Pang-Ning Tan
Pang-Ning Tan Michigan State University
Jiayu Zhou
Jiayu Zhou Michigan State University
Craig A. Stow
Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Emily H. Stanley
Emily H. Stanley University of Wisconsin–Madison

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