Stephen R. Carpenter

TL;DR: In order to assess overall ecosystem condition, it is necessary to choose indicators of environmental stress that incorporate two basic, and potentially contradictory, properties as mentioned in this paper, i.e., environmental stress should be sensitive to the variety of anthropogenic stresses that could occur, and such indicators must be reasonably predictable in unperturbed ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the interaction between humans and lakes during the last century in two sites in Wisconsin, USA, a state where lakes, in excess of 10,000, have played an important role in the evolution of the landscapes they belong to.

TL;DR: Big Muskellunge Lake, a softwater lake in northern Wisconsin, harbors a diverse (25 species) submersed macrophyte vegetation, andalyses of species sequences along line transects detected significant segregation of species that is most plausibly explained by biotic factors such as colonization, clonal growth, and competition.

TL;DR: The results show that Chaoborus predation can greatly affect a zooplankton community, especially daphnids, and that herbivore responses could not be explained by changes in food levels.