A novel family of models are being used to evaluate potential future changes in freshwater and related ecosystem services from present conditions to those in 2050.

Develop a toolbox for automating the process of analyzing community change.

People in general, and ecologists in particular, are fascinated by species that show extreme fluctuations in abundance.

Smart prevention is to identify lakes that are most likely to be invaded and most likely to be impacted by an invader.

Reducing macrophyte densities has often been suggested as one way of improving fish growth in such lakes.

NTL collaborates with scientists from across the Northern Hemisphere who are interested in temporal and spatial patterns in lake ice phenology.

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are conducting a whole-lake mixing experiment on Crystal Lake (Vilas County, WI) to eradicate an invasive fish from the lake.

WICCI represents a unique and innovative process to develop a statewide climate change adaptation strategy.

The position of a lake in the landscape relative to hydrologic influences patterns in water chemistry, primary productivity, and morphology.

Little Roch Lake was divided in half by an impermeable curtain and the northern basin of the lake was acidified with sulfuric acid in three two-year stages.

How will the benefits we receive from our diverse landscapes be sustained as climate, land use, cities, and human demands change?

Our primary goal in the Microbial Observatory is to advance the understanding diversity and population dynamics of lake bacterioplankton.

The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network is a grassroots network of limnologists, ecologists, information technology experts, and engineers building a network of lake observatories.

Establish a graduate training program that will equip students to combine the social, economic and biological sciences in the study of environmental problems presented by freshwater ecosystems.

A cross-scale interaction occurs when a factor at one scale, such as agricultural land use around a lake, interacts with a factor at another scale, such as the climate of the region the lake is located within.

NTL is one of five watersheds to examine water, energy, and biogeochemical fluxes and determine the effects of atmospheric deposition, climatic variables, and human influences on watershed processes.

Invasive species are often a major threat to native species and biodiversity, and consequently to the social value of ecosystems.

Increasing human population offer benefits to northern Wisconsin residents but also threaten to degrade the ecological services they rely on.

Surprises - large, unexpected changes from apparently small causes -- are common in systems of people and nature.

Understand carbon and nutrient cycles for a landscape on which terrestrial and freshwater systems are intimately connected in multiple and reciprocal ways.

Variability will be assessed at all trophic levels for three years in both a manipulated lake and a non-manipulated reference lake.