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Welcome to the WilsonLab at Auburn University!
My approach to research is
multidimensional. First, I use large-scale observational
studies and meta-analysis of existing data from the literature
to discover patterns in nature. Then, I identify mechanisms
mediating these patterns through laboratory and field-based
experimentation.
As an aquatic ecologist, I am
interested in aquatic plant-herbivore interactions and
identifying the ecological and evolutionary consequences of intraspecific genetic and phenotypic variation on aquatic
communities and ecosystems. My current research, in part, focuses on the
ecology of cyanobacterial blooms with an emphasis on
understanding how biotic and abiotic factors influence
cyanobacterial bloom formation.
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News
March 2014
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The last few weeks have been an exciting time
for the WilsonLab. I just learned that I will be
heading to work in the
Population and Community Ecology program at the National
Science Foundation as a Program Director Rotator this
summer. I can't wait to get to Arlington!
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Our buddy,
Thad
Scott, was awarded the Southeastern Conference Visiting
Faculty Travel Grant to support his stay in the beautiful
city of Auburn, Alabama, where he will work with us to
refine his skills for measuring cyanobacterial toxins.
We are looking forward to seeing you, Thad.
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Brie was recently notified that she will get
$300 from the Auburn University Graduate School to present
some of her thesis research at
ASLO meeting in
Portland, Oregon. Good work, Brie.
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Our prison seminar series is in full force.
This year, Kyes Stevens, Doug Goodwin, Curtis Shannon, and I
have developed new courses and extended our prison science
seminar series, called Sparks. I just gave a series of
lectures about eutrophication at Easterling Correctional
Facility. My students were incredible, as usual.
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Anja Rebelein, an undergrad from Germany,
will be joining us this summer to conduct field research
through the
DAAD RISE program. We are psysched about seeing
Anja this summer.
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We had our final water quality workshop
associated with our USGS
project. As in the past years, our students were
excellent.
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I am finally getting a little break. I
am heading to the mountains in Asheville, NC, to participate
in the
Southeastern Lake Management Conference. The trip
cound not be more perfectly timed.
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Our friend,
Nate Dorn, from Florida Atlantic University visited us
and gave a cool seminar about his research in the
Everglades.
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After years of prodding, Michael has finally
put together his own website...because of a class
requirement.
Check it out.
January 2014
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Our past undergradaute researcher, Enrique
Doster, learned that he has been accepted into the Ph.D./DVM
program at Colorado State University (the third best vet
school in the U.S.). We expect big things from you,
Enrique.
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I got to visit my Purdue colleagues again to
discuss our Lake Michigan project about drowned rivermouths.
My flight arrived just in time for me to get on the shuttle
to West Lafayette before the snow storm hit. I don't
miss the snow.
October 2013
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Michael and Katie's (2011
REU student) paper showing how the diazotroph, Cylindrospermopsis, dominates in super low
(expected) and high (unexpected) N:P conditions was just
accepted at Water Research. Good job, y'all.
Another successful REU project! Chislock, M. F., K. L. Sharp, and A. E. Wilson.
2014. Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii
dominates under very low and high nitrogen-to-phosphorus
ratios. Water Research 49:207-214. (PDF)
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I finally got to get away for a short fishing
trip with the boys. Russ, Tyler, and I slayed the
redfish and trout in Venice, LA. I am ready to go back
to fishing paradise.
October 2013
September 2013
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Kent's newly accepted paper in the Journal of
Athletic Training now makes FOUR pubs from my
meta-analysis course. I have the best, hardiest working
students. Congratulations, Kent! Games, K., J.
Sefton, and A. E. Wilson. In press. Effect of
whole-body vibration on blood flow and muscle oxygenation: a
meta-analysis. Journal of Athletic Training. (PDF)
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Our star undergrad, Enrique, just learned that
his first-authored paper in the
Journal
of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine was accepted for publication.
He will be giving a talk about these data at the upcoming
American Association of Zoo
Veterinarians meeting in Utah next month. You rock,
Enrique. Doster, E., M. F. Chislock, J. F. Roberts, J.
J. Kottwitz, and A. E. Wilson. 2014. Recognition of
an important water quality issue at zoos: prevalence and
potential threat of toxic cyanobacteria. Journal of Zoo
and Wildlife Medicine 45(1):174-177.
(PDF)
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The students' story about their experiences at
the recent ASLO meeting in New Orleans has been published in
the recent addition of the ASLO Bulletin. Nice, y'all.
Olsen, B. K., C. Smith, M. Chislock, J. Kasinak, and E. Doster.
2013. Letter to the Editor: Association for the Sciences of
Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2013 Annual Meeting:
Students' perspectives. ASLO Bulletin 22(3):83-84.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Newly
available map helps pinpoint freshwater HABs throughout
the US. Also, see associated
report. This story has been picked up by the
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch newspaper and other venues.
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Jim Langcuster helped Rusty Wright and I
develop a news
release about harmful algal blooms through the Auburn
University Wire Eagle.
August 2013
July 2013
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Michael's paper describing huge effects of
consumer offense on aquatic community structure and function
just got accepted at Ecology. Michael will be sharing
these data at the Ecological Society of America meeting next
month. Brie, Enrique, and Ace were also part of this
effort. Excellent work, y'all! - Chislock, M. F., O. Sarnelle, B. K. Olsen, E. Doster, and A. E. Wilson.
2013. Large effects of
consumer offense on ecosystem structure and function.
Ecology 94(11):2375-2380.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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More good news. Jo-Marie was just awarded
the 2013 MidSouth Aquatic Plant Management Society Student
Scholarship ($2,000) for her research investigating grass carp
control of the benthic cyanobacterium, Lyngbya.
June 2013
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Our article in the Alabama Cattleman newsletter
has hit the newsstands. Learn more about how
cyanobacteria can harm livestock here - Wilson, A. E., M. F. Chislock, E. Doster,
R. A. Wright, J. J. Kottwitz, H. Walz, and H. Rose. 2013.
Toxic algae threaten livestock health. The Alabama
Cattleman June 2013:16-17.
(PDF)
May 2013
April 2013
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I have just been notified that I will be
promoted to Associate Professor with tenure effective Fall
2013. Hooray!
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More good news for the lab - Jo-Marie's
Sigma Xi
Grants-In-Aid of Research application was funded for $600.
We really appreciate Sigma Xi's support.
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Michael's eutrophication article that was
co-authored with two past REU students, Enrique Doster and
Rachel Zitomer, was accepted for publication in Nature
Education. Congratulations, team! Chislock, M. F., E. Doster, R. A. Zitomer, and A. E. Wilson.
2013. Eutrophication: Causes,
consequences, and controls in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Education Knowledge
4(4):10.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Enrique and other undergrads from Auburn are
sharing their research at the
National Conference on
Undergraduate Research at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse.
I hope everyone bundled up for the frigid weather.
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Jo-Marie Kasinak and Justin Havird (Scott
Santos' lab) were awarded Outstanding Oral Presentations at
this year's Graduate Student Symposium. They both were
invited to give talks at AU's Research Week and Justin scored
2nd place for his talk! Y'all rock!
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Enrique Doster was awarded 3rd place for his
STEM poster about his zoo research at AU's Research Week. Enrique will be a
great vet.
March 2013
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We just held our first of two water quality
workshops associated with our USGS project on cyanobacterial
blooms throughout the Southeast at the wonderful USGS facility
in Orlando, FL. Thanks, Barry Rosen, for letting us
visit you again to teach our great students how to sample and
identify algae.
February 2013
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Kyes Stevens and Doug Goodwin joined me for my
science lecture about eutrophication at an Alabama men's
medium security prison. My students were unbelievable.
Tons of energy and questions. I can't wait to go back.
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My lab, Michael Chislock, Jo-Marie Kasinak,
Brie Olsen, and Enrique Doster, and one limnology student,
Chris Smith, attended the ASLO meeting in New Orleans. A
wonderful venue for a wonderful meeting.
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The Daily Tar Heel just wrote a little story
about our new
Water in Our World seminar course at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Kyes Stevens,
Doug Goodwin, and I just learned that our 2013 Outreach
Grant was funded. With this support, we will further
enhance our prison science seminar series with new courses at
Alabama prisons over the next year. Thank you,
Nalini Nadkarni, for making me aware of prison outreach!
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Justin Havird's meta-analysis project was just
accepted for publication. Justin put together an
incredible dataset synthesizing the literature related to the
physiological responses of critters to salinity shifts.
Good work, Justin. Havird, J. C., R. P. Henry, and A.
E. Wilson. 2013. Altered expression of Na+/K+-ATPase
and other osmoregulatory genes in the gills of euryhaline
animals in response to salinity change: a meta-analysis of 59
quantitative PCR studies over 10 years. Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology, Part D: 8(2):131-140.
(PDF)
January 2013
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During a recent trip to Washington, D.C., my
family found our long lost buddy from Auburn, John Roberts, at
his new place of employment - The National Zoo. We miss
John.
December 2012
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Michael Chislock just got his first
first-authored publication accepted in Water Research.
I think this work is paradigm shifting. Awesome job,
Michael! Chislock, M. F., O. Sarnelle, L. M. Jernigan, and A. E.
Wilson. 2013. Do high concentrations
of microcystin prevent Daphnia control of
phytoplankton? Water
Research 47(6):1961-1970. (PDF)
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Enrique Doster, Brittany Holt, and I lead a
great discussion about
NSF REU programs at Tuskegee University this week.
November 2012
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Michael and I just got back from a whirlwind
trip to Can Tho, Viet Nam, to teach limnology. Once
again, our students were spectacular!
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Before traveling to Viet Nam, I hung out with
my new friends, Zhou Yang and his students, at Nanjing Normal
University in Nanjing, China. The fried dumplings were
too good to be true.
October 2012
September 2012
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We are currently accepting applications for our
third and final REU summer program in
warm-water aquatic ecology.
The deadline is 15 January 2013 and applications can be
completed
here. Please spread the word.
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We have been very fortunate to have two of our
pals visit the lab and give cool departmental seminars about
paleolimnology.
Gretchen Gerrish (chilling with Aubie before the LSU game)
came all the way from the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse
and
Matt Waters (checking out a current field experiment) made
the drive from Valdosta State University.
August 2012
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The WilsonLab is growing
again! Welcome Brie, a new Biological Sciences graduate
student, and Ross, our new lab organizer.
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Our friend Nara Souza, from the Florida Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Commission, visited us last week to
learn how to enumerate phytoplankton. She was a terrific
student!
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The news report mentioning the seminar that my
colleagues from Georgia Power, Tom Broadwell and Tony Dodd,
and I gave to the Jackson Lake Homeowners Association is
available now. Check it out at
Covington
News.
July 2012
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Our REU program is winding down. The
student head back home at the end of the month :(
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Our report to the Alabama Department of
Environmental Management to help them develop nutrient
criteria for the Tallapoosa watershed has been submitted.
Fowler, S., W. Deutsch, A. E. Wilson, and E. Reutebuch.
2012. Tallapoosa River basin numerical nutrient criteria for
wadeable streams. Final Report for the Alabama Department of
Environmental Management, Agreement ADEM-C00594051.
(PDF)
June 2012
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I gave a seminar about water quality to the
Jackson Lake Homeowners Association with my Georgia Power
colleagues, Tony Dodd and Tom Broadwell, at the beautiful
historic FFA camp. The house was packed!
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Rusty Wright and I lead an outreach activity
for our Tuskegee Univ colleague, Dr. Olga Bolden-Tiller, who
is training 44 high school students from across the country in
agricultural-related fields. We taught the students how
to collect fish with seines, castnets, and electroshocking.
May 2012
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My three REU students, Brittany Holt, Rachel
Zitomer, and Enrique Doster, helped me sample the Ogeechee
River near the one year anniversary of the largest fish kill
in Georgia's history. Joining us were
Laura Warren, from WRDW, and the
Ogeechee
Riverkeeper, Dianna Wedincamp. The students and I
made it on television -
check it out!
April 2012
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Alan has been offered a semester fellowship at
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill Global Research Institute to participate in
research, teaching, and outreach activities centered on global
water issues. Get ready, Chapel Hill!
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Daisuke's paper describing how hypoxia
influences Lake Erie Daphnia mendotae has been
accepted. Good job, Daisuke! Goto, D., K. Lindelof,
D. L. Fanslow, S. A. Ludsin, J. J. Roberts, H. A. Vanderploeg, A. E. Wilson, and T. O. Höök.
2013.
Ecological consequences of hypolimnetic hypoxia on survival
and growth potential of Daphnia mendotae in the central
basin of Lake Erie. Aquatic Biology.
(PDF)
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Michael has garnered another award - a Harry
Merriwether Fellowship. This award was given to only
four AU graduate students for their outstanding scholarship.
You continue to rock, Michael!
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Enrique has been offered a one-year AU
Undergraduate Research Fellowship to continue conducting
research in the WilsonLab. He will be spending a
significant amount of time at the
MacArthur Agro-Ecology
Research Center in Florida. Good job, dude!
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Betina's awesome meta-analysis paper generally
describing biodiulution of microcystin in aquatic foodwebs has
finally been accepted. Good work, Betina!
Kozlowsky-Suzuki, B., A. E. Wilson, and A. Ferrao-Filho. 2012. Biomagnification or biodilution of
microcystins in aquatic foodwebs? Meta-analyses of laboratory
and field studies. Harmful Algae.
(PDF)
March 2012
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Sadly, the court case associated with the Ogeechee River fish kill (the
largest kill (38,000+ dead fish) in Georgia history) has
been dismissed by the judge - read more
here (GreenLaw)
or
here (SavannahNow) Hutton Brown and Don Stack plan to
appeal. Go get 'em guys!
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We held our second water quality workshop
associated with our USGS
cyanobacterial bloom network project in Auburn. Our
students were awesome!
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Del Anderson (2011 REU student), Katie LeMay
(2011 REU student), Michael Chislock, Courtney Ellison (2011
REU student), Jo-Marie Kasinak, and Enrique Doster had a good
time at SEEC
2012 in Clemson, SC. Del, Michael, and Jo-Marie
presented some of their research. Good job, y'all!
February 2012
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Our Sparks in Science and Math
prison seminar series has officially begun at Elmore
Correctional Center thanks to support from the AU College of
Agriculture, College of Science and Math, and Outreach office.
Kyes Stevens has been instrumental in this effort where
seven AU faculty will give weekly lectures to our students at
the prison.
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Rusty Wright, Barry Rosen, and I just held our first water
quality workshop associated with our new
USGS project.
We had a bunch of excellent students. We will be
organizing a similar meeting in Auburn in March 2012.
January 2012
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I just completed another successful trip to
Purdue to hangout with
Tomas Höök
and his students to discuss our Lake Michigan river plume
project.
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I was able to return to a local daycare to
teach the kids about aquatic foodwebs and aquatic-terrestrial
linkages. I wish I had the kids' energy and the
teachers' patience.
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Recent papers
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Chislock, M. F., K. L. Sharp, and A. E. Wilson.
2014. Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii
dominates under very low and high nitrogen-to-phosphorus
ratios. Water Research 49:207-214. (PDF)
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Doster, E., M. F. Chislock, J. F. Roberts, J.
J. Kottwitz, and A. E. Wilson. 2014. Recognition of
an important water quality issue at zoos: prevalence and
potential threat of toxic cyanobacteria. Journal of Zoo
and Wildlife Medicine 45(1):174-177.
(PDF)
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Chislock, M. F., O. Sarnelle, B. K. Olsen, E. Doster, and A. E. Wilson.
2013. Large effects of
consumer offense on ecosystem structure and function.
Ecology 94(11):2375-2380.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Games, K., J. Sefton, and A. E. Wilson.
In press. Effect of whole-body vibration on blood flow and
muscle oxygenation: a meta-analysis. Journal of Athletic
Training. (PDF)
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Olsen, B. K., C. Smith, M. Chislock, J. Kasinak,
and E. Doster. 2013. Letter to the Editor: Association for the
Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) 2013 Annual
Meeting: Students' perspectives. ASLO Bulletin 22(3):83-84.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Wilson, A. E., M. F. Chislock, E. Doster,
R. A. Wright, J. J. Kottwitz, H. Walz, and H. Rose. 2013.
Toxic algae threaten livestock health. The Alabama
Cattleman June 2013:16-17.
(PDF)
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Chislock, M. F., E. Doster, R. A. Zitomer, and
A. E. Wilson. 2013. Eutrophication: Causes,
consequences, and controls in aquatic ecosystems. Nature Education Knowledge
4(4):10.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Havird, J. C., R. P. Henry, and A.
E. Wilson. 2013. Altered expression of Na+/K+-ATPase
and other osmoregulatory genes in the gills of euryhaline
animals in response to salinity transfer: a meta-analysis of 59
quantitative PCR studies over 10 years. Comparative
Biochemistry and Physiology, Part D: 8(2):131-140.
(PDF)
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Chislock, M. F., O. Sarnelle, L. M. Jernigan, and A. E.
Wilson. 2013. Do high concentrations
of microcystin prevent Daphnia control of
phytoplankton? Water
Research 47(6):1961-1970. (PDF)
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Wilson, A. E. and
M. F. Chislock. 2013. Ecological control of
cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems. Invited book
chapter in Cyanobacteria: Toxicity, ecology, and management.
Editor: A. Ferrão-Filho.
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York. pp. 213-221.
(PDF)
(Web link)
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Vanderploeg, H.
A., A. E. Wilson, T. H. Johengen, J. Dyble, O. Sarnelle,
J. R. Leibig, S. D. Robinson, and G.
P. Horst. 2013. The role of
selective grazing by dreissenid mussels in promoting toxic
Microcystis blooms and other changes in phytoplankton
composition in the Great Lakes. Invited book chapter in
Quagga and Zebra Mussels: Biology, Impacts, and Control,
Second Edition. Editors: T. Nalepa and
D. Schloesser. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. pp.
509-524.
(PDF)
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Fowler, S., W. Deutsch, A. E. Wilson,
and E. Reutebuch. 2012. Tallapoosa River basin numerical
nutrient criteria for wadeable streams. Final Report for the
Alabama Department of Environmental Management, Agreement
ADEM-C00594051.
(PDF)
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Goto, D., K. Lindelof, D. L. Fanslow, S. A.
Ludsin, J. J. Roberts, H. A. Vanderploeg, A. E. Wilson,
and T. O. Höök. 2012. Ecological consequences of
hypolimnetic hypoxia on survival and growth potential of
Daphnia mendotae in the central basin of Lake Erie.
Aquatic Biology 16:217-227.
(PDF)
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Kozlowsky-Suzuki, B., A. E. Wilson, and A. Ferrao-Filho.
2012. Biomagnification or biodilution of
microcystins in aquatic foodwebs? Meta-analyses of laboratory
and field studies. Harmful Algae 18:47-55.
(PDF)
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Logan, S. W., L. E. Robinson, A. E. Wilson, and W. A.
Lucas. 2012. Getting the fundamentals of movement: A
meta-analysis of the effectiveness of motor skill
interventions in young children as assessed by the test of
gross motor development. Child: Care, Health &
Development 38(3):305-315.
(PDF)
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White, J. D., R. B. Kaul, L. B. Knoll, A. E.
Wilson, and O. Sarnelle. 2011. Large variation
in vulnerability to grazing within a population of the
colonial phytoplankter, Microcystis aeruginosa. Limnology and Oceanography 56(5):1714-1724
(PDF)
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Berry, J. P., E. Lee, K. Walton, A. E.
Wilson, and F. Bernal-Brooks. 2011. Microcystin
production by a persistent cyanobacterial bloom in Lago de
Patzcuaro (Michoacan, Mexico), and apparent bioaccumulation of
the toxin in small commercial catches of fish.
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
30(7):1621-1628.
(PDF)
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Wilson, A. E., R. B. Kaul, and O.
Sarnelle. 2010. Growth rate consequences of
coloniality in a harmful phytoplankter. PLoS ONE
5(1):e8679. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008679
(PDF)
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