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Supported Research

Peer-Reviewed Research Supported by Lynne M. Witty

The research supported by Lynne M. Witty’s zooplankton processing and taxonomy training services through her decades at the Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit continues to lead to many peer-reviewed publications in aquatic science. A selection of these publications is listed below.

  1. Audet, C., S. MacPhee and W.B. Keller. 2013. Colonization of constructed ponds by crustacean zooplankton: local and regional influences. Journal of Limnology 72(3): 524–530.

  2. Barth, L., B. Shuter, G. Sprules, C. Minns and J. Rusak. 2019. Calibration of the zooplankton community size spectrum as an indicator of change in Canadian Shield lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76(12): 2268–2287.

  3. Binks, J.A., S.E. Arnott and W.G. Sprules. 2005. Local factors and colonist dispersal influence crustacean zooplankton recovery from cultural acidification. Ecological Applications 15(6): 2025–2036.

  4. Boudreau, S.A. and N.D. Yan. 2003. The differing crustacean zooplankton communities of Canadian Shield lakes with and without the nonindigenous zooplanktivore Bythotrephes longimanus. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60: 1307–1313.

  5. Celis-Salgado, M.P., W.B. Keller and N.D. Yan. 2016. Calcium and sodium as regulators of the recovery of four Daphnia species along a gradient of metal and base cations in metal contaminated lakes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Limnology 75(s2): 36–49.

  6. Jeziorski, A., A.J. Tanentzap, N.D. Yan, A.M. Paterson, M.E. Palmer, J.B. Korosi, J.A. Rusak, M.T. Arts, W.B. Keller, R. Ingram, A. Cairns and J.P. Smol. 2015. The jellification of north temperate lakes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282(1798): 20142449.

  7. Keller, W.B., N.D. Yan, J.M. Gunn and J. Heneberry. 2007. Recovery of acidified lakes: lessons from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus 7: 317–322.
     

  8. Keller, W.B., J. Heneberry and B.A. Edwards. 2019. Recovery of acidified Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, lakes: a multi-decade synthesis and update. Environmental Reviews 27(1): 1–16.

  9. Kelly, N.E., K. Wantola, E. Weisz and N.D. Yan. 2013. Recreational boats as a vector of secondary spread for aquatic invasive species and native crustacean zooplankton. Biological Invasions 15(3): 509–519.

  10. Kelly, N.E., N.D. Yan, B. Walseng and D. Hessen. 2013. Differential short- and long-term effects of an invertebrate predator on zooplankton communities in invaded and native lakes. Diversity and Distributions 19: 396–410.
     

  11. Khan, F., W.B. Keller, N.D. Yan, P. Welsh, C. Wood and J. McGeer. 2012. Application of biotic ligand and toxic unit modeling approaches to predict improvements in zooplankton species richness in smelter-damaged lakes near Sudbury, Ontario. Environmental Science & Technology 46(3): 1641–1649.
     

  12. MacLeod, J., W.B. Keller and A.M. Paterson. 2018. Crustacean zooplankton in lakes of the far north of Ontario, Canada. Polar Biology 41: 1257–1267.

  13. MacPhee, S.A., S.E. Arnott and W.B. Keller. 2011. Lake thermal structure influences macroinvertebrate predation on crustacean zooplankton. Journal of Plankton Research 33(10): 1586–1595.
     

  14. Palmer, M.E., W.B. Keller and N.D. Yan. 2013. Gauging recovery of zooplankton from historical acid and metal contamination: the influence of temporal changes in restoration targets. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 107–118.

  15. Paterson, A.M., W.B. Keller, K.M. Rühland, F.C. Jones and J.G. Winter. 2014. An exploratory survey of summer water chemistry and plankton communities in lakes near the Sutton River, Hudson Bay Lowlands, Ontario, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 46: 121–138.

  16. Shurin, J.B., S.E. Arnott, H. Hillebrand, A. Longmuir, B. Pinel-Alloul, M. Winder and N.D. Yan. 2007. Diversity-stability relationship varies with latitude in zooplankton. Ecology Letters 10: 127–134.​
     

  17. Shurin, J.B., M. Winder, R. Adrian, W.B. Keller, B. Matthews, A.M. Paterson, M.J. Paterson, B. Pinel-Alloul, J. Rusak and N.D. Yan. 2010. Environmental stability and lake zooplankton diversity — contrasting effects of chemical and thermal variability. Ecology Letters 13: 453–463.
     

  18. Smith, B.R., D.C. Aldridge and A.J. Tanentzap. 2018. Mussels can both outweigh and interact with the effects of terrestrial to freshwater resource subsidies on littoral benthic communities. Science of the Total Environment 622–623: 49–56.
     

  19. Strecker, A.L. and S.E. Arnott. 2005. Impact of Bythotrephes invasion on zooplankton communities in acid-damaged and recovered lakes on the Boreal Shield. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62: 2450–2462.

  20. Valois, A.E., W.B. Keller and C.W. Ramcharan. 2011. Recovery in a multiple stressor environment: using the reference condition approach to examine zooplankton community change along opposing gradients. Journal of Plankton Research 33(9): 1417–1429.

  21. Vasseur, D., J. Fox, A. Gonzalez, R. Adrian, B. Beisner, M. Helmus, C. Johnson, P. Kratina, C. Kremer, C. D. Mazancourt, E. Miller, W. Nelson, M. Paterson, J. Rusak, J. Shurin and C. Steiner. 2014. Synchronous dynamics of zooplankton competitors prevail in temperate lake ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 281(1788): 20140633.
     

  22. Webster, N.I., W.B. Keller and C.W. Ramcharan. 2013. Restoration of zooplankton communities in industrially damaged lakes: influences of residual metal contamination and the recovery of fish communities. Restoration Ecology 21(6): 785–792.
     

  23. Yan, N.D., J. Bailey, J.C. McGeer, M.M. Manca, W.B. Keller, M.P. Celis-Salgado and J.M. Gunn. 2016. Arrive, survive and thrive: essential stages in the re-colonization and recovery of zooplankton in urban lakes in Sudbury, Canada. Journal of Limnology 75(s2): 4–14.
     

  24. Young, J.D., H. Jarjanazi and M.E. Palmer. 2024. Multiple signs of ecosystem change in the zooplankton community of a large temperate lake. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(6): 699–714.

These publications represent decades of continuing contributions to Canadian aquatic ecology. To have this same level of rigour and experience applied to your project, please contact me.

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