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Richard C. Lathrop is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology.

Their research topics cover various aspects of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Main topics include Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics.

Among their recent scholarly contributions are two papers:

  • Climate and food web effects on the spring clear-water phase in two north-temperate eutrophic lakes, 2020, published in Limnology and Oceanography
  • Response of Green Lake, Wisconsin, to changes in phosphorus loading, with special emphasis on near-surface total phosphorus concentrations and metalimnetic dissolved oxygen minima, 2022, published in Scientific investigations report

Lathrop frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki
  • Stephen R. Carpenter
  • Jake R. Walsh
  • M. Jake Vander Zanden
  • Mark R. Gahler

Their work has appeared primarily in the journals Limnology and Oceanography and Scientific investigations report, each hosting at least one of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Phosphorus Loads to Surface Waters: A Simple Model to Account for Spatial Pattern of Land Use

    P. A. Soranno;S. L. Hubler;S. R. Carpenter;R. C. Lathrop

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

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

  • Exploring ecological patterns with structural equation modeling and Bayesian analysis

    GB Arhonditsis;CA Stow;LJ Steinberg;MA Kenney

  • Understanding Regional Change: A Comparison of Two Lake Districts

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Barbara J. Benson;Reinette Biggs;Jonathan W. Chipman

  • Phosphorus loading reductions needed to control blue green algal blooms in Lake Mendota

    Richard C. Lathrop;Stephen R. Carpenter;Craig A. Stow;Patricia A. Soranno

  • 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

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

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

  • Probabilistic Estimate of a Threshold for Eutrophication

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Richard C. Lathrop;Richard C. Lathrop

  • Internal phosphorus loading in Lake Mendota: response to external loads and weather

    P. A. Soranno;S. R. Carpenter;R. C. Lathrop

  • Ecological and economic analysis of lake eutrophication by nonpoint pollution

    Stephen R. Carpenter;David Bolgrien;Richard C. Lathrop;Craig A. Stow;Craig A. Stow

  • Trends and abrupt changes in 104 years of ice cover and water temperature in a dimictic lake in response to air temperature, wind speed, and water clarity drivers

    Madeline R. Magee;Chin H. Wu;Dale M. Robertson;Richard C. Lathrop

  • Perspectives on the eutrophication of the Yahara lakes

    Richard C. Lathrop

  • Regional coherence of climatic and lake thermal variables of four lake districts in the Upper Great Lakes Region of North America

    Barbara J. Benson;John D. Lenters;John J. Magnuson;Maryan Stubbs

  • Extreme daily loads: role in annual phosphorus input to a north temperate lake

    Stephen R. Carpenter;Eric G. Booth;Christopher J. Kucharik;Richard C. Lathrop

  • Hypolimnetic methylmercury and its uptake by plankton during fall destratification : A key entry point of mercury into lake food chains ?

    Russell T. Herrin;Richard C. Lathrop;Patrick R. Gorski;Anders W. Andren

  • Summer water clarity responses to phosphorus, Daphnia grazing, and internal mixing in Lake Mendota

    Richard C. Lathrop;Richard C. Lathrop;Stephen R. Carpenter;Dale M. Robertson

  • Water clarity in Lake Mendota since 1900 : responses to differing levels of nutrients and herbivory

    R C Lathrop;S R Carpenter;L G Rudstam

  • Interannual Synchronous Dynamics in North Temperate Lakes in Wisconsin, USA

    Timothy K. Kratz;Patricia A. Soranno;Stephen B. Baines;Barbara J. Benson

  • Water quality implications from three decades of phosphorus loads and trophic dynamics in the Yahara chain of lakes

    Richard C. Lathrop;Stephen R. Carpenter

  • Phosphorus Flow in a Watershed-Lake Ecosystem

    Tara Reed-Andersen;Stephen R. Carpenter;Richard C. Lathrop

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen R. Carpenter
Stephen R. Carpenter University of Wisconsin–Madison
M. Jake Vander Zanden
M. Jake Vander Zanden University of Wisconsin–Madison
Patricia A. Soranno
Patricia A. Soranno Michigan State University
John J. Magnuson
John J. Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Dale M. Robertson
Dale M. Robertson United States Geological Survey
Timothy K. Kratz
Timothy K. Kratz University of Wisconsin–Madison
Craig A. Stow
Craig A. Stow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Pieter T. J. Johnson
Pieter T. J. Johnson University of Colorado Boulder
Dianna K. Padilla
Dianna K. Padilla Stony Brook University
David E. Armstrong
David E. Armstrong University of Wisconsin–Madison

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