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63
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1978
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Overview

Lars G. Rudstam is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research focuses on multiple topics related to aquatic ecosystems. These include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Underwater Acoustics Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Rudstam has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • eCommons (Cornell University)
  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • PLoS ONE
  • Hydrobiologia

Some notable recent papers coauthored by Rudstam are:

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Scientists' Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world's large lakes, 2020, Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Loss of Ice Cover, Shifting Phenology, and More Extreme Events in Northern Hemisphere Lakes, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm, 2021, Freshwater Biology
  • Deep chlorophyll maxima across a trophic state gradient: A case study in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography

Frequent collaborators include James M. Watkins, Suresh A. Sethi, Alexander Y. Karatayev, Erik Jeppesen, and Anne E. Scofield. These coauthors reflect interdisciplinary teamwork across various studies related to aquatic environments and ecosystem dynamics.

Best Publications

  • Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe

    Catherine M. O'Reilly;Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Stephanie E. Hampton

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Lake Ontario: food web dynamics in a changing ecosystem (1970-2000)

    E L Mills;J M Casselman;R Dermott;J D Fitzsimons

  • Size Selectivity of Passive Fishing Gear: A Correction for Encounter Probability Applied to Gill Nets

    Lars G. Rudstam;John J. Magnuson;William M. Tonn

  • Alteration of Ecosystem Function by Zebra Mussels in Oneida Lake: Impacts on Submerged Macrophytes

    B. Zhu;D. G. Fitzgerald;C. M. Mayer;C. M. Mayer;L. G. Rudstam

  • Storm impacts on phytoplankton community dynamics in lakes

    Jason D. Stockwell;Jonathan P. Doubek;Rita Adrian;Rita Adrian;Orlane Anneville

  • Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Rapid degradation of the world’s large lakes

    Jean Philippe Jenny;Orlane Anneville;Fabien Arnaud;Yoann Baulaz

  • A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009

    Sapna Sharma;Derek K. Gray;Jordan S. Read;Catherine M. O'Reilly

  • Gape limitation and prey selection in larval yellow perch (Perca flavescens), freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), and black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

    Denise M. Schael;Lars G. Rudstam;John R. Post

  • Impact of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) on the pelagic lower trophic levels of Oneida Lake, New York

    Nasseer Idrisi;Edward L. Mills;Lars G. Rudstam;Donald J. Stewart

  • Dynamics of planktivory in a coastal area of the northern Baltic Sea

    LG Rudstam;S. Hansson;S. Johansson;U. Larsson

  • Loss of ice cover, shifting phenology, and more extreme events in Northern Hemisphere lakes

    Sapna Sharma;David C. Richardson;R. Iestyn Woolway;M. Arshad Imrit

  • Diel vertical migration and feeding patterns of Mysis mixta (Crustacea, Mysidacea) in the Baltic Sea

    L. G. Rudstam;K. Danielsson;S. Hansson;S. Johansson

  • Stocking piscivores to improve fishing and water clarity: a synthesis of the Lake Mendota biomanipulation project

    Richard C. Lathrop;Richard C. Lathrop;B. M. Johnson;T. B. Johnson;M. T. Vogelsang

  • Cyanobacterial blooms in oligotrophic lakes: Shifting the high-nutrient paradigm

    Kaitlin L. Reinl;Justin D. Brookes;Cayelan C. Carey;Ted D. Harris

  • The Rise and Fall of a Dominant Planktivore: Direct and Indirect Effects on Zooplankton

    Lars G. Rudstam;Richard C. Lathrop;S. R. Carpenter

  • Diet of Mysis relicta in Lake Ontario as revealed by stable isotope and gut content analysis

    Ora E Johannsson;Mike F Leggett;Lars G Rudstam;Mark R Servos

  • Scale-dependent effects of zebra mussels on benthic invertebrates in a large eutrophic lake

    C. M. Mayer;R. A. Keats;L. G. Rudstam;E. L. Mills

  • Predicting the Vertical Distribution of Fish Populations: Analysis of Cisco, Coregonus artedii, and Yellow Perch, Perca flavescens

    Lars G. Rudstam;John J. Magnuson

  • 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

  • Evidence for Remote Effects of Dreissenid Mussels on the Amphipod Diporeia: Analysis of Lake Ontario Benthic Surveys, 1972–2003

    James M. Watkins;Ronald Dermott;Stephen J. Lozano;Edward L. Mills

  • Towards a standard operating procedure for fishery acoustic surveys in the Laurentian Great Lakes, North America

    Lars G. Rudstam;Sandra L. Parker-Stetter;Patrick J. Sullivan;David M. Warner

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward L. Mills
Edward L. Mills Cornell University
Brian C. Weidel
Brian C. Weidel United States Geological Survey
Ora E. Johannsson
Ora E. Johannsson University of British Columbia
Zhengwen Liu
Zhengwen Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Erik Jeppesen
Erik Jeppesen Aarhus University
Alexander Y. Karatayev
Alexander Y. Karatayev Buffalo State College
Lyubov E. Burlakova
Lyubov E. Burlakova Buffalo State College
Rita Adrian
Rita Adrian Freie Universität Berlin
James A. Rusak
James A. Rusak Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks
Timothy B. Johnson
Timothy B. Johnson Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

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