Soranno, P.A., P.J. Hanly, K.E. Webster, T. Wagner, A. McDonald, A. Shuvo, E.M. Schielp, K.L. Reinl, I.M. McCullough, P-N. Tan, N.R. Lottig, K.S. Cheruvelil. 2025. Abrupt changes in algal biomass of thousands of US lakes are related to climate and are more likely in low-disturbance watersheds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122 e2416172122. doi:10.1073/pnas.2416172122

Dugan, H.A., R. Ladwig, P. Schramm, N.R. Lottig. 2025. Snow removal cools a small dystrophic lake. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 10. doi:10.1002/lol2.10444

Donnelly, A., A.R. Desai, K.A. Heckman, L.E. Nave, M.J. Cramer, M. Faust, P. Weishampel, C. Slemmons, C.G. Andresen, E. Ayres, S.R. Cotey, K.M. Docherty, J. Hatzis, K. Hofmeister, J.M. LaMontagne, J.D. Lenters, N.R. Lottig, A.M. Marcarelli, J. Miesel, J. Riddle, M. Salmon-Tumas, M.D. SanClements, S. Sapkota, M.D. Schwartz, P. Sharma, O. Shrestha, G. Vincent, A. Waupochick, T. Zheng, & Z. Ye. 2024. Fostering effective and sustainable scientific collaboration and knowledge exchange: a workshop-based approach to establish a national ecological observatory network (NEON) domain-specific user group. International Journal of Biometeorology, 68 1475–1481. doi:10.1007/s00484-024-02673-x

Lapierre, J.-F., K.E. Webster, E.M. Hanks, T. Wagner, P.A. Soranno, I.M. McCullough, K.L. Reinl, M. Domka, and N.R. Lottig. 2023. A continuous classification of the 476,697 lakes of the conterminous US based on geographic archetypes. Limnology and Oceanography, 68 2759–2773. doi:10.1002/lno.12457

Socha, E., A. Gorsky, N.R. Lottig, G.G. Gerrish, E.C. Whitaker, and H.A. Dugan. 2023. Under-ice plankton community response to snow removal experiment in bog lake. Limnology and Oceanography, 68 1001–1018. doi:10.1002/lno.12319

Campbell, J.L., C.T. Driscoll, J.A. Jones, E.R. Boose, H.A. Dugan, P.M. Groffman, C.R. Jackson, J.B. Jones, G.P. Juday, N.R. Lottig, B.E. Penaluna, R.W. Ruess, K. Suding, J.R. Thompson, and J.K. Zimmerman. 2022. Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites. BioScience, 72 851–870. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab124

Ladwig, R., A.P. Appling, A. Delany, H.A. Dugan, Q. Gao, N.R. Lottig, J. Stachelek, and P.C. Hanson. 2022. Long-term change in metabolism phenology in north temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 67 1502–1521. doi:10.1002/lno.12098

Feiner, Z.S., H.A. Dugan, N.R. Lottig, G.G. Sass, and G.A. Gerrish. 2022. A perspective on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of phenological variability in lake ice on north-temperate lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2021-0221

Scordo, F., N.R. Lottig, J.E. Fiorenza, J. Culpepper, J. Simmons, C. Seitz, E.M. Krynak, E. Suenaga, and S. Chandra. 2022. Hydroclimate variability affects habitat-specific (open water and littoral) lake metabolism. Water Resources Research, 58 e2021WR031094. doi:10.1029/2021WR031094

N.R. Lottig, J.S. Phillips, R.D. Batt, F. Scordo, T.J. Williamson, S.R. Carpenter, S. Chandra, P.C. Hanson, C.T. Solomon, M.J. Vanni, and J. Zwart. 2022. Estimating pelagic primary production in lakes: Comparison of ¹⁴C incubation and free-water O₂ approaches. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 22 34–45. doi:10.1002/lom3.10471

Gorsky, A.L., N.R. Lottig, P.C. Stoy, A.R. Desai, and H.A. Dugan. 2021. The Importance of Spring Mixing in Evaluating Carbon Dioxide and Methane Flux From a Small North-Temperate Lake in Wisconsin, United States. JGR Biogeosciences, 126 e2021JG006537. doi:10.1029/2021JG006537

Cavaliere, E., B. Fourneier, V. Hazuková, G.P. Rue, S. Sadro, J.B. Cotner, H.A. Dugan, S.E. Hampton, N.R. Lottig, B.C. McMeans, T. Ozersky, S.M. Powers, M. Rautio, and C.M. O’Reilly. 2021. The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: Influence of Winter Conditions on Energy and Ecosystem Dynamics. JGR Biogeosciences, 126 e2020JG006165. doi:10.1029/2020JG006165

Yang, B., M.G. Wells, B.C. McMeans, H.A. Dugan, J.A. Rusak, G.A. Weyhenmeyer, J.A. Brentrup, A.R. Hrycik, A. Laas, R.M. Pilla, J.A. Austin, P.J. Banchfield, C.C. Carey, M.M. Guzzo, N.R. Lottig, M.D. MacKay, R.A. Middel, D.C. Pierson, J. Wang, and J.D. Young. 2021. A new thermal categorization of ice-covered lakes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48 e2020GL091374. doi:10.1029/2020GL091374

Shliep, E.M., S.M. Collins, S. Rojas-Salazar, N.R. Lottig, and E.H. Stanley. 2020. Data fusion model for speciated nitrogen to identify environmental drivers and improve estimation of nitrogen in lakes. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 14 1651–1675. doi:10.1214/20-AOAS1371

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, L. Boyang, Q. Wang, P-N. Tan, J. Zhou, K. King, I. McCullough, J. Stachelek, M. Bartley, C.T. Filstrup, E.M. Hanks, J-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, T. Wagner, & K.E. Webster. 2020. Ecological prediction at macroscales using big data: Does sampling design matter? Ecological Applications, 30 e02123. doi:10.1002/eap.2123

Perales, K.M., C.L. Hein, N.R. Lottig, and M.J. Vander Zanden. 2020. Lake water level response to drought in a lake-rich region explained by lake and landscape characteristics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 77 1836–1845. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2019-0270

Soranno, P.A., T. Wagner, S.C. Collins, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, & S.K. Oliver. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation of ecosystem properties at macroscales. Ecology Letters, 22 1587–1598. doi:10.1111/ele.13346

McCullough, I.M., K.S. Cheruvelil, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, M.A. Moritz, J. Stachelek, & P.A. Soranno. 2019. Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States. Global Change Biology, 25 2841–2854. doi:10.1111/gcb.14732

Stanley, E.H., S.C. Collins, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, K.E. Webster, K.S. Cheruvelil, & P.A. Soranno. 2019. Biases in lake water quality sampling and implications for macroscale research. Limnology and Oceanography, 64 1572–1585. doi:10.1002/lno.11136

Stanley, E.H., S. Rojas-Salazar, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, C.T. Filstrup, & S.C. Collins. 2019. Comparison of total nitrogen data from direct and Kjeldahl-based approaches in integrated data sets. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. doi:10.1002/lom3.10338

^#Wagner, T., N.R. Lottig, M.L. Bartley, E.M. Hanks, E.M. Schliep, N.B. Wikle, K. King, I. McCullough, J. Stachelek, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.T. Filstrup, J-F. Lapierre, B. Liu, P.A. Soranno, P-N. Tan, Q. Wang, K.E. Webster, & J. Zhou. 2019. Increasing accuracy of lake nutrient predictions in thousands of lakes by leveraging water clarity data. Limnology and Oceanography Letters. doi:10.1002/lol2.10134

Stow, C.A., K.E. Webster, T. Wagner, N.R. Lottig, P.A. Soranno, & YK. Cha. 2018. Small values in big data: The continuing need for appropriate metadata. Ecological Informatics, 45 26–30. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2018.03.002

N.R. Lottig, P-N. Tan, T. Wagner, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.A. Soranno, E.H. Stanley, C.E. Scott, C.A. Stow, & S. Yuan. 2017. Macroscale patterns of synchrony identify complex relationships among spatial and temporal ecosystem drivers. Ecosphere, 8 e02024. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2024

Powers, S.M., S.G. Labou, H.M. Baulch, R.J. Hunt, N.R. Lottig, J.F. Walker, S.E. Hampton, & E.H. Stanley. 2017. Ice duration drives winter nitrate accumulation in north temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2 177–186. doi:10.1002/lol2.10048

Bjorneras, C., G.A. Weyhenmeyer, C.D. Evans, M.O. Gessner, H.-P. Grossart, K. Kangur, I. Kokorite, P. Kortelainen, N.R. Lottig, H. Laudon, J. Lehtoranta, D.T. Monteith, P. Noges, T. Noges, F. Oulehle, A. Raike, G. Riise, J.A. Rusak, J. Sire, S. Sterling, & E. Kritzberg. 2017. Widespread increases in iron concentration in European and North American freshwaters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31 1488–1500. doi:10.1002/2017GB005749

Hampton, S.E., A.W. Galloway, S.M. Powers, T. Ozersky, K.H. Woo, R.D. Batt, S.G. Labou, C.M. O’Reilly, S. Sharma, N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, R. North, J.D. Stockwell, R. Adrian, G. Weyhenmeyer, L. Arvola, H. Baulch, I. Bertani, L.L. Bowman Jr., C. Carey, J. Catalan, W. Colom-Montero, L.M. Domine, M. Felip, I. Granados, C. Gries, H.-P. Grossart, J. Haberman, M. Haldna, B. Hayden, S.N. Higgins, J.C. Jolley, K.K. Kahilainen, E. Kaup, M.J. Kehoe, S. MacIntyre, A.W. Mackay, H.L. Mariash, R.M. McKay, B. Nixdorf, P. Noges, T. Noges, M. Palmer, D.C. Pierson, D.M. Post, M.J. Pruett, M. Rautio, J.S. Read, S.L. Roberts, J. Rucker, S. Sadro, E.A. Silow, D.E. Smith, R.W. Sterner, G.E.A. Swann, M.A. Timofeyev, M. Toro, M.R. Twiss, R.J. Vogt, S.B. Watson, E.J. Whiteford, & M.A. Xenopoulos. 2017. Ecology under lake ice. Ecology Letters, 20 98–111. doi:10.1111/ele.12699

Soranno, P.A., L.C. Bacon, M. Beauchene, K.E. Bednar, E.G. Bissell, C.K. Boudreau, M.G. Boyer, M.T. Bremigan, S.R. Carpenter, J.W. Carr, K.S. Cheruvelil, S.T. Christel, M. Claucherty, S.M. Collins, J.D. Conroy, J.A. Downing, J. Dukett, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, C. Funk, M.J. Gonzalez, L.T. Green, C. Gries, J.D. Halfman, S.K. Hamilton, P.C. Hanson, E.N. Henry, E.M. Herron, C. Hockings, J.R. Jackson, K. Jacobson-Hedin, L.L. Janus, W.W. Jones, J.R. Jones, C.M. Keson, K.B.S. King, S.A. Kishbaugh, J-F. Lapierre, B. Lathrop, J.A. Latimore, Y. Lee, N.R. Lottig, J.A. Lynch, L.J. Matthews, W.H. McDowell, K.E.B. Moore, B.P. Neff, S.J. Nelson, S.K. Oliver, M.L. Pace, D.C. Pierson, A.C. Poisson, A.I. Pollard, D.M. Post, P.O. Reyes, D.O. Rosenberry, K.M. Roy, L.G. Rudstam, O. Sarnelle, N.J. Schuldt, C.E. Scott, N.K. Skaff, N.J. Smith, N.R. Spinelli, J.J. Stachelek, E.H. Stanley, J.L. Stoddard, S.B. Stopyak, C.A. Stow, J.M. Tallant, P-N. Tan, A.P. Thorpe, M.J. Vanni, T. Wagner, G. Watkins, K.C. Weathers, K.E. Webster, J.D. White, M.K. Wilmes, & S. Yuan. 2017. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. GigaScience, 6 gix101. doi:10.1093/gigascience/gix101

Powers, S.M., H.M. Baulch, S.E. Hampton, S.G. Labou, N.R. Lottig, & E.H. Stanley. 2017. Nitrification contributes to winter oxygen depletion in seasonally frozen forested lakes. Biogeochemistry, 136 119–129. doi:10.1007/s10533-017-0382-1

Oliver, S.K., S.C. Collins, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner, E.H. Stanley, J. Jones, C. Stow, N.R. Lottig. 2017. Unexpected stasis in a changing world: lake nutrient and chlorophyll trends since 1990. Global Change Biology, 23 5455–5467. doi:10.1111/gcb.13810

Watras, C.J., K.A. Morrison, N.R. Lottig, & T.K. Kratz. 2015. Comparing the diel cycles of dissolved organic matter fluorescence in a clear-water and two dark-water Wisconsin lakes: potential insights into lake metabolism. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 73 65–75. doi:10.1139/cjfas-2015-0172

Soranno, P., E. Bissell, K.S. Cheruvelil, S. Christel, S.C. Collins, C. Fergus, C. Filstrup, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, C. Scott, N. Smith, S. Stopyak, S. Yuan, M. Bremigan, J. Downing, C. Gries, E. Henry, N. Skaff, E.H. Stanley, C. Stow, P.-N. Tan, T. Wagner, & K.E. Webster. 2015. Building a multi-scaled geospatial temporal ecology database from disparate sources: fostering open science and data reuse. GigaScience, 4. doi:10.1186/s13742-015-0067-4

N.R. Lottig, T. Wagner, E.N. Henry, K.S. Cheruvelil, K.E. Webster, J.A. Downing, & C.A. Stow. 2014. Long-Term Citizen-Collected Data Reveal Geographical Patterns and Temporal Trends in Lake Water Clarity. PLOS ONE, 9 e95769. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095769

Crawford, J.T., N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, J.F. Walker, P.C. Hanson, J.C. Finlay, & R.G. Striegl. 2014. CO₂ and CH₄ emissions from streams in a lake-rich landscape: Patterns, controls, and regional significance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 28 197–210. doi:10.1002/2013GB004661

Levy, O., B.A. Ball, B. Bond-Lamberty, K. Spence Cheruvelil, A.O. Finley, N.R. Lottig, S.W. Punyasena, J. Xiao, J. Zhou, L.B. Buckley, C.T. Filstrup, T. Keitt, J.R. Kellner, A. Knapp, A.D. Richardson, C. Stow, D. Tcheng, M. Toomey, R. Vargas, J.W. Voordeckers, T. Wagner, J.W. Williams. 2014. Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12 15–23. doi:10.1890/130019

Soranno, P.A., K.S. Cheruvelil, E.G. Bissel, M. Tate Bremigan, J.A. Downing, C.E. Fergus, C.T. Filstrup, E. Norton Henry, N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, C.A. Stow, P-N. Tan, T. Wagner, & K.E. Webster. 2014. Cross-scale interactions: a conceptual framework for understanding multi-scaled cause-effect relationships in macrosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 12 65–73. doi:10.1890/120366

^#McDonald, C.P., N.R. Lottig, J.L. Stoddard, A.T. Herlihy, S. Lehmann, S.G. Paulsen, D.V. Peck, A.I. Pollard, & R.J. Stevenson. 2014. Comment on Bachmann et al. (2013): A non-representative sample cannot describe the extent of cultural eutrophication of natural lakes in the United States. Limnology and Oceanography, 59. doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.6.2226

N.R. Lottig, I. Buffman, & E.H. Stanley. 2013. Comparisons of wetland and drainage lake influences on stream dissolved carbon concentrations and yields in a north temperate lake-rich region. Aquatic Sciences, 75 619–630. doi:10.1007/s00027-013-0305-8

N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, & J.T. Maxted. 2012. Assessing the influence of upstream drainage lakes on fluvial organic carbon in a wetland-rich region. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 117. doi:10.1029/2012JG001983

N.R. Lottig & S.R. Carpenter. 2012. Interpolating and forecasting lake characteristics using long-term monitoring data. Limnology and Oceanography, 57 1113–1125. doi:10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.1113

Shade, A., J.S. Read, N.D. Youngblut, N. Fierer, R. Knight, T.K. Kratz, N.R. Lottig, E.E. Roden, E.H. Stanley, J. Stombaugh, R.J. Whitaker, C.H. Wu, & K.D. McMahon. 2012. Lake microbial communities are resilient after a whole-ecosystem disturbance. The ISME Journal, 6 2153–2167. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.56

Stanley, E.H., S.M. Powers, N.R. Lottig, I. Buffam, & J.T. Crawford. 2012. Contemporary changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in human-dominated rivers: is there a role for DOC management? Freshwater Biology, 57 26–42. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2011.02613.x

N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, P.C. Hanson, & T.K. Kratz. 2011. Comparison of regional stream and lake chemistry: Differences, similarities, and potential drivers. Limnology and Oceanography, 56 1551–1562. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.5.1551

Buffam, I., M.G. Turner, A.R. Desai, P.C. Hanson, J.A. Rusak, N.R. Lottig, E.H. Stanley, & S.R. Carpenter. 2011. Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget of a north temperate lake district. Global Change Biology, 17 1193–1211. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02313.x

Stanley, E.H., S.M. Powers & N.R. Lottig. 2010. The evolving legacy of disturbance in stream ecology: concepts, contributions, and coming challenges. The Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29 67–83. doi:10.1899/08-027.1

Powers, S.M., E.H. Stanley & N.R. Lottig. 2009. Quantifying phosphorus uptake using pulse and steady state approaches in streams. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 7 498–508. doi:10.4319/lom.2009.7.498

N.R. Lottig, H.M. Valett, M.E. Schreiber & J.R. Webster. 2007. Flooding and arsenic pollution: influences on stream ecosystem structure and function. Limnology and Oceanography, 52 1991–2000. doi:10.4319/lo.2007.52.5.1991

N.R. Lottig & J.M. Fox. 2007. A potential mechanism for disturbance mediated channel migration in a southeastern salt marsh. Geomorphology, 86 525–528. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.09.007

N.R. Lottig & E.H. Stanley. 2007. Benthic sediment influence on phosphorus concentrations in a headwater stream. Biogeochemistry, 84 297–309. doi:10.1007/s10533-007-9116-0