Synopses & Reviews
This site-synthesis volume presents 20 years of work at the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Research Site. It provides the definitive information base for the ecology of temperate lakes, and a general assessment of the role of lakes within their landscapes. The Wisconsin temperate lakes LTER site has had a major role in the growth of our modern limonological understanding, and this book also chronicles the history of this work. The book should be of interest to most American limonologists and a significant number of general ecologists.
Review
"Entertaining, informative, well-structured, and well-illustrated book..."--Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
"I highly recommend this book to all those who are interested in long-term researches on lakes, and are confronted with lake-management issues..." --SIL News
"The book is not only an excellent summary of the innovative landscape-scale work done at North Temperate Lakes (NTL), one of the six original LTER sites, but it also provides an engaging history of the site's operations and evolving research goals. ... Exceptionally well written."--Ecology
"This book provides an excellent overview and introduction to the literature of this very successful research program. This book should be in all academic libraries in Wisconsin and other parts of the lake-rich northland, and will also be useful to aquatic ecologists worldwide."--Choice
Table of Contents
Contributors
1. The Challenge of Time and Space in Ecology, John J. Magnuson, Timonth K. Kratz, and Barbara J. Benson
I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES
2. Understanding the Lake-Groundwater System: Just Follow the Water, Katherine E. Webster, Carl J. Bowser, Mary P. Anderson, and John D. Lenters
3. Making Sense of the Landscape: Geomorphic Legacies and the Landscape Position of Lakes, Timothy K. Kratz, Katherine E. Webster, Joan L. Riera, David B. Lewis, and Amina I. Pollard
4. Lakes as Islands: Biodiversity, Invasion, and Extinction, Shelley E. Arnott, John J. Magnuson, Stanley I. Dodson, and Alison C. C. Colby
5. Coherent Dynamics among Lakes, John J. Magnuson, Timothy K. Kratz, Barbara J. Benson, and Katherine E. Webster
6. Generalization from Intersite Research, Joan L. Riera, Timothy K. Kratz, and John J. Magnuson
II DRIVERS OF LONG-TERM DYNAMICS
7. Climate-Driven Variability and Change, John J. Magnuson, Barbara J. Benson, John D. Lenters, and Dale M. Robertson
8. Ecological Change and Exotic Invaders, Karen A. Wilson and Thomas R. Hrabik
9. The Experimental Acidification of Little Rock Lake, Thomas M. Frost, Janet M. Fischer, Patrick L. Brezonik, María J. González, Timothy K. Kratz, Carl J. Watras, and Katherine E. Webster
10. Jumping In: Within-Lake Processes and Dynamics, David E. Armstrong, George H. Lauster, Beth L. Sanderson, David B. Lewis, and Thomas M. Frost
11. People in a Forested Lake District, Bradley S. Jorgensen, David Nowacek , Richard C. Stedman, and Kathy Brasier
12. The Ongoing Experiment: Restoration of Lake Mendota and its Watershed, Stephen R. Carpenter, Richard C. Lathrop, Peter Nowak, Elena M. Bennett, Tara Reed, and Patricia A. Soranno
III DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH
13. Breaking the Data Barrier: Research Facilitation through Information Management, Barbara Benson, Paul Hanson, Jonathan Chipman, and Carl Bowser
14. Origin, Operation, Evolution, and Challenges, John J. Magnuson, Barbara J. Benson, Timothy K. Kratz, David E. Armstrong, Carl J. Bowser, Alison C. C. Colby, Timothy W. Meinke, Pamela K. Montz, and Katherine E. Webster
IV SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS
15. Synthetic Summary and Prospective, Barbara J. Benson, Timothy K. Kratz, and John J. Magnuson