The invasive species, the quagga mussel, infiltrated Lake Michigan in the early 2000s and immediately began depleting the base of the aquatic food system: the lake\u27s phytoplankton population. Today the quagga mussel covers 80% of the lake floor deeper than 10 meters, can be concentrated at 35,000 mussels per square meter, and is efficient at filtering throughout the depth of the water column. This thesis aims to contribute to the difficult task of describing the impact these mussels have on the size and preferred depth of the phytoplankton population in Lake Michigan. In a simplified model, two species of phytoplankton competing for nutrients (one preferred) with bottom boundary mussel consumption were simulated using the lattice Boltzma...
Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCM) are common in stratified lakes and oceans, and phytoplankton growth in...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115963/1/fwb12653.pdfhttp://deepblue.li...
Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems live in a complex and dynamic environment and to maximize th...
We applied a three‐dimensional biophysical model to Lake Michigan for the years 2000, 2005, and 2010...
The characterization of water flow and turbulence near lake beds is important for modelling environm...
A three-dimensional hydrodynamic model (ELCOM) coupled with a biological model (CAEDYM) was calibrat...
Motivated by a need to characterize near-bottom deep-water turbulence for an understanding of the fi...
We quantified the vertical and horizontal variation of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) to test how benthic fil...
Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems live in spatially and temporally complex environments. They ...
Hydrodynamic and biophysical models were used to understand the mechanisms mediating algal blooms in...
We determined the clearance rates of the profunda morph of the quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) us...
The Laurentian Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater on earth containing 22% of the world...
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The effects of the invasive bivalves Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mus...
An abundance of evidence exists to support the notion of annual winter blooms of phytoplankton, part...
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms and invasive species threaten water quality. These threats are expecte...
Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCM) are common in stratified lakes and oceans, and phytoplankton growth in...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115963/1/fwb12653.pdfhttp://deepblue.li...
Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems live in a complex and dynamic environment and to maximize th...
We applied a three‐dimensional biophysical model to Lake Michigan for the years 2000, 2005, and 2010...
The characterization of water flow and turbulence near lake beds is important for modelling environm...
A three-dimensional hydrodynamic model (ELCOM) coupled with a biological model (CAEDYM) was calibrat...
Motivated by a need to characterize near-bottom deep-water turbulence for an understanding of the fi...
We quantified the vertical and horizontal variation of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) to test how benthic fil...
Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems live in spatially and temporally complex environments. They ...
Hydrodynamic and biophysical models were used to understand the mechanisms mediating algal blooms in...
We determined the clearance rates of the profunda morph of the quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) us...
The Laurentian Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater on earth containing 22% of the world...
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The effects of the invasive bivalves Dreissena polymorpha (zebra mus...
An abundance of evidence exists to support the notion of annual winter blooms of phytoplankton, part...
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms and invasive species threaten water quality. These threats are expecte...
Deep chlorophyll maxima (DCM) are common in stratified lakes and oceans, and phytoplankton growth in...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/115963/1/fwb12653.pdfhttp://deepblue.li...
Primary producers in aquatic ecosystems live in a complex and dynamic environment and to maximize th...