The Great Lakes are host to thousands of native fishes, invertebrates, plants, and other species that not only provide recreational and economic value to the region, but also hold important ecological value. However, with over 180 documented aquatic nonindigenous...
Currently, atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs) discretize separately the processes described by the adiabatic equations driving the evolution of the grid-scale variables (the “dynamics”) and the bulk or statistical parameterizations of the mean effects of...
Nonindigenous bigheaded carps (Bighead Carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and Silver Carp H. molitrix; hereafter, “Asian carps” [AC]) threaten to invade and disrupt food webs and fisheries in the Laurentian Great Lakes through their high consumption of plankton. To...
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