Landscape and Food Web Ecology of Midwestern U.S. Resevoirs

Bremigan, M.T. and R.A. Stein. 2001. Variability in larval gizzard shad recruitment across Ohio reservoirs: exploring causal mechanisms and implications for fisheries management. Ecological Applications 11:1425-1437.

Bremigan, M. T. and R. A. Stein. 1999. Larval gizzard shad success, juvenile effects, and reservoir productivity. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 128:1106-1124.

DeVries, D.R., M.T. Bremigan, and R.A. Stein. 1998. Prey selection by larval crappie and larval gizzard shad: the importance of gape limitation and comparison between northern lakes and southern reservoirs. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:1040-1050.

Schaus, M.H., M.J. Vanni, T.E. Wissing, M.T. Bremigan, J.E. Garvey, and R.A. Stein. 1997. Nitrogen and phosphorus excretion by detritivorous gizzard shad in a reservoir ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography 42:1386-1397.

Bremigan, M.T. and R.A. Stein. 1997. Experimental assessment of the influence of zooplankton size and density on gizzard shad recruitment. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:622-637.

Stein, R.A., M.T. Bremigan, and J.M. Dettmers. 1996. Understanding reservoir systems with experimental tests of ecological theory: a prescription for successful management. Pages 6-22 in L.E. Miranda and D.R. DeVries, editors. Multidimensional Approaches to Reservoir Fisheries Management. American Fisheries Society Symposium 16.

Bremigan, M.T. and R.A. Stein. 1994. Gape-dependent larval foraging and zooplankton size: implications for fish recruitment across systems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:913-922.

Effects of Eurasian Watermilfoil (and control efforts) on North Temperate Lakes

Bremigan, M.T., P.A. Soranno, S.M. Hanson, K.S. Cheruvelil, and R.D. Valley. To be submitted to Journal of Aquatic Plant Management in March 2004. Response of aquatic vegetation and largemouth bass to whole-lake control of Eurasian watermilfoil using low-dose fluridone. Submitted to North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

Valley, R. D. and M. T. Bremigan. 2002. Effects of herbicide control of Eurasian watermilfoil on age-0 largemouth bass piscivory and growth. Journal of Aquatic Plant Management 40:79-87.

Valley, R. D. and M. T. Bremigan. 2002. Effects of macrophyte bed architecture on largemouth bass foraging: implications of exotic macrophyte invasions. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131:234-244.

Effects of Landscape Context on North Temperate Lakes and Reservoirs

Nate, N.A., M. Bozek, M. Hansen, C. Ramm, M. Bremigan, and S. Hewett. 2003. Predicting walleye presence from physical and biological features of northern Wisconsin lakes. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:1206-1213.

Seelbach, P.W., M.J. Wiley, P.A. Soranno and M.T. Bremigan. 2002. Predicting characteristics of aquatic ecosystems from landscape-scale information. Pages 454-478 in K. Gutzwiller, editor. Applying Landscape Ecology in Biological Conservation. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.

Additional Fish Recruitment Work

Wills, T.C., M.T. Bremigan, and D.B. Hayes. 2004. Variable effects of habitat enhancement structures across species and habitats in Michigan reservoirs. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133:398-410.

Bremigan, M.T., J.M. Dettmers, and A.L. Mahan. 2003. Taxonomic and size selection of zooplankton by larval yellow perch in Green Bay, Lake Michigan: implications for recruitment success. Journal of Great Lakes Research 29:501-510.

Garvey, J.E., R.A. Stein, R.A. Wright, and M.T. Bremigan. 2002.Exploring ecological mechanisms underlying largemouth bass recruitment along environmental gradients. Pages 7-23 in D. P. Philipp and M. S. Ridgway, editors. Black bass: ecology, conservation, and management. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 31, Bethesda, Maryland.