Publications

2026

• Brock, WA, SR Carpenter, ML Pace, GM Wilkinson (2026) Ecosystem Experiments: How Does Manipulation Rate Affect Responses and Dynamic Indicators of Resilience? Ecosystems 29.
• Butts, TJ, RA Johnson, M Weber, GM Wilkinson (2026) Food web complexity alters phytoplankton persistence and resilience to nutrient pulses in experimental ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography 71: e70319
• Gorsky, A, HA Dugan, EH Stanley, GM Wilkinson, MJ Vander Zanden, R Lathrop (2026) Decadal persistence of the macrophyte-dominated state in a shallow eutrophic lake following carp removal. Ecosystems 29
• Johnson, RA, JA Walter, TJ Butts, S Hall, GM Wilkinson (2026) Experimental evaluation of weather-driven emissions of greenhouse gases from ponds. Limnology and Oceanography Letters e70121
• Wilkinson, GM, M McCarthy, B Bertolet, N Lottig, D Szydlowski, ML Pace, S Jones (2026) Eutrophication and ice phenology influence patterns of within season methane accumulation in north temperate lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters e70136

2025

• Amos, P, W Crumpton, D Eads, GM Wilkinson, B Jovanovic (2025) Microplastics in 132 Iowa lakes and variability in relation to abiotic, biotic, and anthropogenic factors. Environmental Pollution 369: 125839.
• Butts, TJ, M Simonson, MJ Weber, GM Wilkinson (2025) Investigating changes to food web structure after fish removal using size spectra analysis. Ecosphere
• Gushulak, CAC, TH Bertram, HA Dugan, JA Franck, MN Rogers, S Salemink-Harry, BJ Smith, TJW Wagner, LK Zoet, N Pujara, GM Wilkinson (2025) The role of surface water waves on cyanobacterial blooms in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters
• Salemink-Harry, S, BJ Smith, HA Dugan, JA Franck, TJW Wagner, GM Wilkinson, LK Zoet, N Pujara (2025) Light attenuation due to preferential orientation of particles in waves and shear flow: from bacteria to algae and microplastics. Limnology and Oceanography
• Smith, BJ, TJW Wagner, HD Dugan, N Pujara, GM Wilkinson, LK Zoet, JA Franck (2025) How Ice Composition Controls Radiatively Driven Convection under Lake Ice. Geophysical Research Letters
• Stukel, MR, AE Allen, KA Barbeau, P Chabert, S Dovel, S Gangrade, SA Kranz, RH Lampe, MR Landry, P Marrec, M Messié, AJ Miller, G Wilkinson, MD Ohman. (2025) Disturbance ecology in a pelagic upwelling biome: Lagrangian frameworks for studying succession. Bioscience.
• Szydlowski, D, K Bollini, ML Pace, GM Wilkinson (2025) Aquatic heatwaves increase surface chlorophyll concentrations in experimental and reference lakes. Limnology and Oceanography Letters [data] [code]

2024

• Gorsky, AL, HA Dugan, GM Wilkinson, EH Stanley (2024) Under‐ice oxygen depletion and greenhouse gas supersaturation in north temperate urban ponds. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [data]
• Wilkinson, GM, JA Walter, EA Albright, RF King, EK Moody, DA Ortiz (2024) An evaluation of statistical models of microcystin detection in lakes applied forward under varying climate conditions. Harmful Algae [data and code]
• [book chapter] Wilkinson, GM, RA Johnson (2024) Eutrophication of Freshwater and Coastal Ecosystems. In the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, 2nd Edition, Springer.
• [essay] Wilkinson, GM and J Vander Zanden (2024) “Adapting to a Changing World: Summer 2024 Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin” L&O Bulletin

2023

• [report] Albright, EA, J Briggs, H Schlimm, GM Wilkinson (2023) Internal phosphorus loading in Iowa lakes: Causes, consequences, and management recommendations. Prepared for the Lake Restoration group of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. [data]
• Beal, MRW, Wilkinson, GM, P Block (2023) Large scale seasonal forecasting of peak season algae metrics in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. Water Research [code]
• Shingai, QK, GM Wilkinson. (2023) The microcystin biogeochemical cycle: Pools, fluxes, and fates in inland waters. Limnology & Oceanography Letters [data] [code]
• Simonson, MA, MJ Weber, GM Wilkinson, AR Annear. (2023) Annual changes in water quality and sportfish community structure following commercial harvest of common carp and bigmouth buffalo. Lake and Reservoir Management
• Walter, JA, RA Johnson, JW Atkins, DA Ortiz, GM Wilkinson (2023) Toward a standardized method for quantifying ecosystem hot spots and hot moments. Ecosystems [data and code]

2022

• Albright, EA and GM Wilkinson. (2022) Sediment phosphorus speciation controls hot spots and hot moments of internal loading in a temperate reservoir. Ecosphere [data]
• Albright, EA, R Fleck, Q Shingai, GM Wilkinson. (2022) High inter- and intra-lake variation in sediment phosphorus pools in shallow lakes. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences [data] [data]
• Butts, TJ, EK Moody, GM Wilkinson. (2022) Seasonal dynamics of zooplankton community nutrient cycling and body size dynamics in a hypereutrophic reservoir. Journal of Plankton Research. [data] [code]
• Carpenter, SR, ML Pace, GM Wilkinson. (2022) DOC, grazers, and resilience of phytoplankton to enrichment. Limnology & Oceanography Letters. [data] [data] [ecosystem model] [zmix model] [multivariate DLM] [exit time]
• Moody, EK, TJ Butts, R Fleck, PD Jeyasingh, GM Wilkinson (2022) Eutrophication-driven eco-evolutionary dynamics indicated by differences in stoichiometric traits among populations of Daphnia pulicaria. Freshwater Biology
• Wilkinson, GM, JA Walter, CD Buelo, ML Pace (2022) No evidence of widespread algal bloom intensification in hundreds of lakes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [data and code]
• [book chapter] Wilkinson, GM, EA Albright (2022) Phosphorus Cycling in Lacustrine Ecosystems. In the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, 2nd Edition
• [policy brief] Wilkinson, GM and CD Buelo. (2022) Are algal blooms getting worse in lakes? Nelson Institute’s Policy Issue series on Water Pollution.

2021

• Brookfield, A, A Hansen, PL Sullivan, J Czuba, MF Kirk, L Li, M Newcomer, GM Wilkinson. (2021) Predicting algal blooms: Are we overlooking groundwater? Science of the Total Environment
• Leung, T, GM Wilkinson, E Swanner. (2021) The role of iron availability during to cyanobacteria dominance of algal blooms, as monitored by chlorophyll fluorescence. Inland Waters [data]
• Ortiz, DA and GM Wilkinson. (2021) Understanding spatial heterogeneity: before, during, and after an algal bloom. Freshwater Biology [data] [data]
• Walter, JA, GM Wilkinson, J Castons, R Fleck, ML Pace (2021) Temporal coherence between lake and landscape primary productivity. Ecosystems [data and code]
• [report]  Wilkinson, GM, W Crumpton, C Rehmann, E Sandry, B Noack, D Green (2021) Des Moines River Water Quality Monitoring Network 2020 Annual Report. Submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District.

2020

• Ortiz, DA, J Palmer, GM Wilkinson (2020) Detecting statistical early warning indicators of algal blooms in shallow eutrophic lakes. Ecosphere[data]
• Walter, JA, R Fleck, ML Pace, GM Wilkinson (2020) Scaling relationships between lake surface area and catchment area. Aquatic Science [data]
• Weber, M, GM Wilkinson, M Balmer, MC Bevil (2020) Environmental changes in eutrophic lakes following restoration. Hydrobiologia 847: 4469–4486.
• Wilkinson, GM, JA Walter, R Fleck, ML Pace (2020) Beyond the trends: The need to understand multi-annual dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Limnology & Oceanography Letters [data]
• [report] Wilkinson, GM, W Crumpton, C Rehmann, E Sandry, B Noack, D Green (2020) Des Moines River Water Quality Monitoring Network 2019 Annual Report. Submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District.

2019

• Moody, EK, EA Albright, K Cope, R Fleck, H Grigel, DA Ortiz, GM Wilkinson. (2019) Taxonomic and geographic gaps in the functional importance of imperiled fishes. Fish and Fisheries
• Moody, E and GM Wilkinson (2019) Functional turnover of zooplankton communities in eutrophic lakes. Freshwater Biology
• Pace, ML, SR Carpenter, GM Wilkinson (2019) Long term studies and reproducibility: Lessons from whole lake experiments. Limnology and Oceanography
• [report] Wilkinson, GM (2019) Report on the Study of Green Valley Lake Stratification and Phosphorus Cycling. Submitted to the Lake Restoration Program, Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
• [report] Wilkinson, GM, W Crumpton, C Rehmann, E Sandry, B Noack, D Green (2019) Des Moines River Water Quality Monitoring Network 2018 Annual Report. Submitted to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District.

2018

• Oreska, M, GM Wilkinson, KJ McGlathery, M Bost, BA McKee (2018) Non-seagrass carbon contributions to seagrass sediment blue carbon. Limnology and Oceanography [data]
• Tanentzap, AJ, BW Kielstra, GM Wilkinson, M Berggren, N Craig, PA del Giorgio, J Grey, JM Gunn, SE Jones, J Karlsson, CT Solomon, ML Pace (2018) Terrestrial support of lake food webs: synthesis reveals controls over cross-ecosystem resource use. Science Advances
• Wilkinson, GM, A Besterman, CD Buelo, JA Gephart, ML Pace (2018) A synthesis of modern organic carbon burial rates in coastal and inland ecosystems. Scientific Reports [data and code in supplement]
• Wilkinson, GM, SR Carpenter, JJ Cole, ML Pace, RD Batt, CD Buelo, J Kurtzweil. (2018) Early warning signals precede cyanobacterial blooms in multiple whole-lake experiments. Ecological Monographs

2017

• Pace, ML, RD Batt, CD Buelo, SR Carpenter, JJ Cole, J Kurtzweil, GM Wilkinson. (2017) Reversal of a Cyanobacterial Bloom in Response to Early Warnings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
• [book chapter] Wilkinson, GM (2017) Eutrophication of Freshwater and Coastal Ecosystems. In the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, Springer.
• [essay] Wilkinson, GM and JJ Cole (2017) “How many limnologists does it take to fix the plumbing?” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 

2016

• Carpenter, SR, JJ Cole, ML Pace, GM Wilkinson (2016) Response of plankton to nutrients, planktivory, and terrestrial organic matter: A model analysis of whole-lake experiments. Ecology Letters
• Emery, KA, JA Gephart, GM Wilkinson, AF Besterman, ML Pace (2016) Modeling drivers of trophic cascades and food-web alterations in a lake ecosystems. Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
• Greiner, JT, KE Emery, GM Wilkinson, KJ McGlathery (2016) Identifying carbon source contributors to restored seagrass sediment. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Wilkinson, GM, C Buelo, JJ Cole, ML Pace (2016) Exogenously produced CO2 more than doubles the flux of greenhouse gases from three north temperate lakes. Geophysical Research Letters

2015

• Batt, RD, SR Carpenter, JJ Cole, ML Pace, RA Johnson, JK Kurtzweil, GM Wilkinson. (2015) Altered energy flow in the food web of an experimentally darkened lake. Ecosphere
• Emery, KA, GM Wilkinson, FG Ballard, ML Pace (2015) Use of allochthonous resources by zooplankton in reservoirs. Hydrobiologia
• Emery, KA, GM Wilkinson, VF Camacho-Ibar, ML Pace, KJ McGlathery, JM Sandoval-Gil, J Hernádez-López (2015) Resource use of a cultured oyster (Crassostrea gigas) in the reverse estuary Bahía San Quintín, Baja California, Mexico. Estuaries and Coasts
• Wilkinson, GM, JJ Cole, ML Pace, RA Johnson, M Kleinhans (2015) The contribution of biological and physical processes to the formation and persistence of oxygen maxima in lakes. Limnology and Oceanography
• Wilkinson, GM, JJ Cole, ML Pace (2015) The sensitivity of deuterium based allochthony estimates to the dietary water correction and lipid content. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
• [essay] Wilkinson, GM (2015) “The President’s Speech” ESA Centennial Writing Contest, Runner Up. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13 (5): 283 
• [essay] Wilkinson, GM (2015) “The benefits of student membership in ASLO.” Bulletin of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 24: 92-93, doi:10.1002/lob.10057

2014

• Wilkinson, GM, SR Carpenter, JJ Cole, ML Pace (2014) Use of deep autochthonous resources by zooplankton: Results of a metalimnetic addition of 13C to a small lake. Limnology and Oceanography
• Yang, C, GM Wilkinson, JJ Cole, SA Macko, ML Pace (2014) Determining the isotopic values of resource end members in freshwater food web studies. Inland Waters

2013

• Wilkinson, GM, ML Pace, JJ Cole (2013) Terrestrial dominance of organic matter in north temperate lakes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
• Wilkinson, GM, SR Carpenter, JJ Cole, ML Pace, C Yang (2013) Terrestrial support of pelagic consumers among lakes: Patterns and variability revealed from a multi-lake study. Freshwater Biology