Joseph V. DePinto

TL;DR: In this paper, recent trends in key eutrophication-related properties, assess their likely ecological impacts, and develop load response curves to guide revised hypoxia-based loading targets called for in the 2012 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.

TL;DR: The results highlight the importance of differential spatiotemporally interactive effects of DO and temperature on relative fish habitat quality and quantity.

TL;DR: In this article, five separate SWAT (US Department of Agriculture's Soil and Water Assessment Tool) models were configured to assess load reduction strategies for the agriculturally dominated Maumee River watershed, the largest P source contributing to toxic algal blooms in Lake Erie.

TL;DR: An ecosystem model was used to investigate whether the re-occurrence of Microcystis could be due to changes caused by zebra mussels that impacted phytoplankton community structure and/or internal phosphorus dynamics, and selective rejection of blue-green algae by zbra mussels appears to be a necessary factor in the enhancement ofblue-green production in the presence of zebraMussels.

TL;DR: In response to water quality changes in the Great Lakes since implementing the 1978 Amendment to the Great Lake Water Quality Agreement, the US and Canada renegotiated the agreement in 2012, requiring the governments to review and revise phosphorus load targets, starting with Lake Erie as discussed by the authors.