John J. Magnuson is a Professor Emeritus of Zoology, Director Emeritus of the Center for Limnology, and Emeritus Member of the Limnology and Marine Science Graduate Faculty.

  Magnuson's research activities focus on long-term ecological research on lake ecological systems, potential influence of climate change on inland waters, fish and fisheries ecology, biogeography and landscape ecology of lake and stream systems, and ecological dynamics of biodiversity and invasion.

His primary teaching has been Zoology 510 Ecology of Fishes and Zoology 315 Limnology, Conservation of Aquatic Resources. He supervises three graduate students, Amina Pollard, Theo Willis, and Karen Wilson.

Selected Publications from >300 research papers and 5 books since 1962

• Benson, B. J., Magnuson, J. J., Jacob, R. L., and Fuenger, S. L. 2001. Response of lake ice breakup in the Northern Hemisphere to the 1976 interdecadal shift in the North Pacific. Verh. Internat. Verien. Limnol. (in press).
• Magnuson, J. J., Wynne, R. H., Benson, B. J., & Robertson, D. M. 2001. Lake and river ice as a powerful indicator of past and present climates. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. (in press).
• Baines, S.B., K.E. Webster, T.K. Kratz, S.R. Carpenter, and J.J. Magnuson. 2000. Synchronous behavior of temperature, calcium and chlorophyll in lakes of northern Wisconsin. Ecology 81(3):815-25.
• Lewis, D.B. and J.J. Magnuson. 2000. Landscape spatial patterns in freshwater snail assemblages across Northern Highland catchments. Freshwater Biology.43: 409-420.
• Magnuson, J.J. & T.K. Kratz. 2000. Lakes in the landscape: approaches to regional limnology. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27: 74-87.
  

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