• Ecological status assessment of European lakes: a comparison of metrics for phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish 

      Solheim, Anne Lyche; Feld, Christian K.; Birk, Sebastian; Phillips, Geoff; Carvalho, Laurence; Morabito, Giuseppe; Mischke, Ute; Willby, Nigel; Søndergaard, Martin; Hellsten, Seppo; Kolada, Agnieszka; Mjelde, Marit; Böhmer, Jürgen; Miler, Oliver; Pusch, Martin T.; Argillier, Christine; Jeppesen, Erik; Lauridsen, Torben L.; Poikane, Sandra (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Data on phytoplankton, macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and fish from more than 2000 lakes in 22 European countries were used to develop and test metrics for assessing the ecological status of European lakes as required ...
    • Effects of multiple stressors on cyanobacteria abundance vary with lake type 

      Richardson, Jessica; Miller, Claire; Maberly, Stephen C; Taylor, Philip; Globevnik, Lidija; Hunter, Peter; Jeppesen, Erik; Mischke, Ute; Moe, S. Jannicke; Pasztaleniec, Agnieszka; Søndergaard, Martin; Carvalho, Laurence (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Blooms of cyanobacteria are a current threat to global water security that is expected to increase in the future because of increasing nutrient enrichment, increasing temperature and extreme precipitation in combination ...
    • A global assessment of lake restoration in practice: New insights and future perspectives 

      Poikane, Sandra; Kelly, Martyn G.; Free, Gary; Carvalho, Laurence; Hamilton, David P.; Katsanou, Konstantina; Lürling, Miquel; Warner, Stuart; Spears, Bryan M.; Irvine, Kenneth (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      A global survey of 179 restoration practitioners spanning 65 countries identified the extent of stakeholder engagement as a key factor determining the success or failure of restoration projects. Lack of support across ...
    • Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems 

      Birk, Sebastian; Chapman, Daniel; Carvalho, Laurence; Spears, Bryan M.; Andersen, Hans Estrup; Argillier, Christine; Auer, Stefan; Baattrup-Pedersen, Annette; Banin, Lindsay; Beklioğlu, Meryem; Bondar-Kunze, Elisabeth; Borja, Angel; Branco, Paulo; Bucak, Tuba; Buijse, Anthonie D.; Cardoso, Ana Cristina; Couture, Raoul-Marie; Cremona, Fabien; de Zwart, Dick; Feld, Christian K.; Ferreira, M Teresa; Feuchtmayr, Heidrun; Gessner, Mark O.; Gieswein, Alexander; Globevnik, Lidija; Graeber, Daniel; Graf, Wolfram; Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Cayetano; Hanganu, Jenica; Işkın, Uğur; Jarvinen, Marko; Jeppesen, Erik; Kotamäki, Niina; Kuijper, Marijn; Lemm, Jan U; Lu, Shenglan; Solheim, Anne Lyche; Mischke, Ute; Moe, S. Jannicke; Nõges, Peeter; Nõges, Tiina; Ormerod, Steve J; Panagopoulos, Yiannis; Phillips, Geoff; Posthuma, Leo; Pouso, Sarai; Prudhomme, Christel; Rankinen, Katri; Rasmussen, Jes Jessen; Richardson, Jessica; Sagouis, Alban; Santos, Jose Maria; Schäfer, Ralf B; Schinegger, Rafaela; Schmutz, Stefan; Schneider, Susanne Claudia; Schülting, Lisa; Segurado, Pedro; Stefanidis, Kostas; Sures, Bernd; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Turunen, Jarno; Uyarra, María C.; Venohr, Markus; von der Ohe, Peter Carsten; Willby, Nigel; Hering, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Climate and land-use change drive a suite of stressors that shape ecosystems and interact to yield complex ecological responses (that is, additive, antagonistic and synergistic effects). We know little about the spatial ...
    • Lake browning counteracts cyanobacteria responses to nutrients: Evidence from phytoplankton dynamics in large enclosure experiments and comprehensive observational data 

      Solheim, Anne Lyche; Gundersen, Hege; Mischke, Ute; Skjelbred, Birger; Nejstgaard, Jens Christian; Guislain, Alexis L. N.; Sperfeld, Erik; Giling, Darren P.; Haande, Sigrid; Ballot, Andreas; Moe, S. Jannicke; Stephan, Susanne; Walles, Tim J. W.; Jechow, Andreas; Minguez, Laetitia; Ganzert, Lars; Hornick, Thomas; Hansson, Truls Hveem; Stratmann, Cleo N.; Järvinen, Marko; Drakare, Stina; Carvalho, Laurence; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Gessner, Mark O.; Berger, Stella Angela (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Lakes worldwide are affected by multiple stressors, including climate change. This includes massive loading of both nutrients and humic substances to lakes during extreme weather events, which also may disrupt thermal ...
    • Making waves. Bridging theory and practice towards multiple stressor management in freshwater ecosystems 

      Spears, Bryan M.; Chapman, Daniel S.; Carvalho, Laurence; Feld, Christian K.; Gessner, Mark O.; Piggott, Jeremy J.; Banin, Lindsay F.; Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Cayetano; Solheim, Anne Lyche; Richardson, Jessica A.; Schinegger, Rafaela; Segurado, Pedro; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Birk, Sebastian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Despite advances in conceptual understanding, single-stressor abatement approaches remain common in the management of fresh waters, even though they can produce unexpected ecological responses when multiple stressors ...
    • Protecting and restoring Europe's waters: An analysis of the future development needs of the Water Framework Directive 

      Carvalho, Laurence; Mackay, Eleanor B.; Cardoso, Ana Cristina; Baattrup-Pedersen, Annette; Birk, Sebastian; Blackstock, Kirsty L.; Borics, Gábor; Borja, Angel; Feld, Christian K.; Ferreira, Maria Teresa; Globevnik, Lidija; Grizzetti, Bruna; Hendry, Sarah; Hering, Daniel; Kelly, Martyn; Langaas, Sindre; Meissner, Kristian; Panagopoulos, Yiannis; Penning, Ellis; Rouillard, Josselin; Sabater, Sergi; Schmedtje, Ursula; Spears, Bryan M.; Venohr, Markus; van de Bund, Wouter; Solheim, Anne Lyche (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    • Short-term rainfall limits cyanobacterial bloom formation in a shallow eutrophic subtropical urban reservoir in warm season 

      Luo, Anqi; Chen, Huihuang; Gao, Xiaofei; Carvalho, Laurence; Xue, Yuanyuan; Jin, Lei; Yang, Jun (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The global increase in dominance of toxic blooms of cyanobacteria has severely impacted aquatic ecosystems and threatened human health for decades. Although it has been shown that high levels of rainfall may inhibit the ...