Joann Cavaletto

Current Research Projects:
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Recent GLERL Publications:
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• VANDERPLOEG, H.A., S.A. POTHOVEN, G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, J.F. CAVALETTO, J.R. LIEBIG, C.A. STOW, T.F. NALEPA, C.P. Madenjian, and D.B. Bunnell. Seasonal zooplankton dynamics in Lake Michigan: Disentangling impacts of resource limitation, ecosystem engineering, and predation during a critical transition. Journal of Great Lakes Research 38(2):336-352 (DOI:10.1016/j.jglr.2012.02.005) (2012). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2012/20120013.pdf
• CAVALETTO, J.F., H.A. VANDERPLOEG, R. Pichlová-Ptáníková, S.A. POTHOVEN, J.R. LIEBIG, and G.L. FAHNENSTIEL. Temporal and spatial separation allow coexistence of predatory cladocerans: Leptodora kindtii, Bythotrephes longimanus, and Cercopagis pengoi in southeastern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36:65-73 (2010).
• Yurista, P.M., H.A. VANDERPLOEG, J.R. LIEBIG, and J.F. CAVALETTO. Lake Michigan Bythotrephes prey consumption estimates for 1994-2003 using a temperature and size corrected bioenergetic model. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36:74-92 (2010).
• VANDERPLEOG, H.A., S.A. Ludsin, J.F. CAVALETTO, T.O. Höök, S.A. POTHOVEN, S.B. Brandt, J.R. LIEBIG, and G.A. LANG. Hypoxic zones as habitat for zooplankton in Lake Erie: Refuges from predation or exclusion zones? Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S108-S120 (2009).
• VANDERPLEOG, H.A., S.A. Ludsin, S.A. RUBERG, T.O. Höök, S.A. POTHOVEN, S.B. Brandt, G.A. LANG, J.R. LIEBIG, and J.F. CAVALETTO. Hypoxia affects spatial distributions and overlap of pelagic fish, zooplankton, and phytoplankton in Lake Erie. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 381:S92-S107 (2009).

Recent Presentations:
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• *VANDERPLOEG, H.A., S.A. POTHOVEN, G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, E.S. RUTHERFORD, T.F. NALEPA, J.R. LIEBIG, and J.F. CAVALETTO. Cascading ecosystem impacts of dreissenid mussels in the Great Lakes. 104th Annual National Shellfisheries Association Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 24-29, 2012 (2012).
• RUTHERFORD, E.S., H.A. *VANDERPLOEG, A. HOOVER, J.F. CAVALETTO, J. LIEBIG, S.A. POTHOVEN, D.M. MASON, P. Bourdeau, and S. Peacor. Fish recruitment dynamics in the newly-illuminated, spatially-complex food web of Lake Michigan. 54th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, Duluth, MN, May 2011 (2011).
• *VANDERPLOEG, H.A., S.A. POTHOVEN, G.L. FAHNENSTIEL, E.S. RUTHERFORD, J.F. CAVALETTO, J. LIEBIG, C.A. STOW, T.F. NALEPA, C.P. Madenjian, D.B. Bunnell, D.M. Warner, and R. Pichlova-Ptacnikova. Response of zooplankton to the newly illuminated, spatially complex food web of Lake Michigan. 54th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research, Duluth, MN, May 2011 (2011).
• *CAVALETTO, J.F., H.A. VANDERPLOEG, J.R. LIEBIG, A. HOOVER, and E. RUTHERFORD. When and where is the party? Day and night vertical depth distribution of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and larval fish in Lake Michigan during summer 2010 (poster). GLERL Program Review, Ann Arbor, MI, November 16-18, 2010. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (2010).