Bibliography of Scientific Papers

This bibliography is provided for people interested in research and studies done on Lake Simcoe. Click on the name of the journal for information about getting a copy of a paper.

Kilgour, B.; Clarkin, C.; Morton, W.; Baldwin, R. (in press) Influence of nutrient levels on the spatial distributions of benthos in Lake Simcoe. Journal of Great Lakes Research.

Winter, J. G.; Eimers, M. C.; Dillon, P. J.; Scott, L. D.; Scheider, W. A. & Willox, C. C. (2007) Phosphorus inputs to Lake Simcoe from 1990 to 2003: Declines in tributary loads and observations of lake water quality. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33(2): 381-396.

Todd, B. J.; Lewis, C. F. M.; Anderson, T. W. (2007) Quaternary features beneath Lake Simcoe, Ontario Canada: drumlins, tunnel channels, and records of proglacial to postglacial closed and overflowing lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. Online edition.

Slattery, S. R.; Barnett, P. J.; Long, D. G. F. (2007) Constraints on paleolake levels, spillways and glacial lake history, north-central Ontario, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology 37(3): 331-348.

Eimers, M. C.; Winter, J. G.; Scheider, W. A.; Watmough, S. A.; Nicholls, K. H. (2005) Recent changes and patterns in the water chemistry of Lake Simcoe. Journal of Great Lakes Research31(3): 322-332. 

Amtstaetter, F.; Willox, C. C. (2004) Survival and growth of lake whitefish from two stocking strategies in Lake Simcoe, Ontario. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24(4): 1214-1220. 

Winter, J. G.; Dillon, P. J.; Futter, M. N.; Nicholls, K. H.; Scheider, W. A.; Scott, L. D. (2002) Total phosphorus budgets, and nitrogen loads: Lake Simcoe, Ontario (1990 to 1998). Journal of Great Lakes Research 28(3): 301-314.

Nicholls, K. H.; Tudorancea, C. (2001) Species-level and community-level data analyses reveal spatial differences and temporal change in the crustacean zooplankton of a large Canadian Lake (Lake Simcoe, Ontario). Journal of Limnology 60(2): 155-170.

Nicholls, K. H.; Tudorancea, C. (2001) Application of fuzzy cluster analysis to Lake Simcoe crustacean zooplankton community structure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58(2): 231-240.

Palmer, R. M.; Jones, C.; Walters, M. (1998) Effective Water Management for the Future – Environmental monitoring initiatives to sustain growth in Ontario, Canada. Water Science and Technology 38(11):113-122.

Claxton, T. W.; Boulding, E. G. (1998) A new molecular technique for identifying field collections of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) and quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) veliger larvae applied to eastern Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and Lake Simcoe. Canadian Journal of Zoology76(1): 194-198.

Nicholls, K. H. (1998) Amphidiniopsis sibbaldii sp. nov. (Thecadiniaceae, Dinophyceae), a new freshwater sand-dwelling dinoflagellate. Phycologia 37(5): 334-339.

Johnson, F. M. (1997) The landscape ecology of the Lake Simcoe basin. Lake and Reservoir Management 13(3): 226-239.

McMurtry, M. J.; Willox, C. C.; Smith, T. C. (1997) An overview of fisheries management for Lake Simcoe. Lake and Reservoir Management 13(3): 199-213.

Nicholls, K. H. (1997) A limnological basis for a Lake Simcoe phosphorus loading objective. Lakeand Reservoir Management 13(3): 189-198.

Toombs, M. R. (1997) Agricultural pollution control: Trends and innovations in the Lake Simcoe watershed. Lake and Reservoir Management 13(3): 240-245.

Walker, R. R. (1997) Strategies to rehabilitate Lake Simcoe – modelling phosphorus loads, remedial measures and control options. Lake and Reservoir Management 13(3): 214-225.

Evans, D. O.; Nicholls, K. H.; Allen, Y. C.; McMurtry, M. J. (1996) Historical land use, phosphorus loading, and loss of fish habitat in Lake Simcoe, Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53 (Suppl. 1): 194-218.

Sly, P. G. & Evans, D. O. (1996) Suitability of habitat for spawning lake trout. Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health 5: 153-175.

Catling, P. M.; Brownell, V. R. (1995) A review of the alvars of the Great Lakes region: Distribution, floristic composition, biogeography, and protection. Canadian Field-Naturalist 109(2): 143-171. 

Nicholls, K. H. (1995) Some recent water quality trends in Lake Simcoe, Ontario: Implications for basin planning and limnological research. Canadian Water Resources Journal 20(4): 213-226. 

Wood, G. (1995) The Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy. Lake and Reservoir Management 11(2): 203.

Todd, B. J.; Lewis, C. F. M. (1993) A reconnaissance geophysical survey of the Kawartha Lakes and Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 47(3) 313-323.

Evans, D. O. & Willox, C. C. (1991) Loss of exploited indigenous populations of lake trout,Salvelinus namaycush, by stocking of hatchery-reared, non-native stocks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48 (Supplement 1): 134-147.

Johnson, M. G.; Nicholls, K. H. (1989) Temporal and spatial variability in sediment and phosphorus loads to Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research 15(2): 265-282.

Wilson, J. P. (1989) Soil erosion from agricultural land in the Lake Simcoe-Couchiching basin, 1800-1981. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 69(1): 137-151.

Evans, D. O.; Houston, J. J.; Meredith, G. N. (1988) Status of the Lake Simcoe whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis, in Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 102(2): 103-113.

Johnson, M. G.; Nicholls, K. H. (1988) Temporal and spatial trends in metal loads to sediments of Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 39(3-4): 337-354.

Wilson, J. P.; Ryan, C. M. (1988) Landscape change in the Lake Simcoe-Couchiching basin, 1800-1983. Canadian Geographer 32(3): 206-222.

Evans, D. O.; Waring, P. (1987) Changes in the multispecies, winter angling fishery of Lake Simcoe, Ontario, 1961-1983: invasion by rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax, and the roles of intra- and inter-specific interactions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44 (Suppl. 2): 182-197.

Evans, D. O. & Loftus, D. H. (1987) Colonization of inland lakes in the Great Lakes region by rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax: their freshwater niche and effects on indigenous fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44 (Supplement 2): 249-266. 

Jackson, M. B. (1985) The red alga Bangia in Lake Simcoe. Journal of Great Lakes Research11(2): 179-181.

Mathers, R. A.; Johansen, P. H. (1985) The effects of feeding ecology on mercury accumulation in walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) and pike (Esox lucius) in Lake Simcoe. Canadian Journal of Zoology 63(9): 2006-2012.

Nicholls, K. H.; Forbes, F. M.; Shaw, R.; Humber, J.; Nakamoto, L. (1985) Phytoplankton of Lake Simcoe during the ice-free periods of 1980-82 and potential response to reduced phosphorus loadings. Journal of Great Lakes Research 11(1): 3-12.

MacCrimmon, H. R.; Pugsley, R. W.; Gots, B. L. (1983) Naturalization of the rainbow smelt,Osmerus mordax, in Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Canadian Field-Naturalist 97(2): 161-169.

Nicholls, K. H.; Fung, D. (1982) Accumulation of iron on the cell walls of the two monospecific freshwater genera Catena and Dichotomosiphon (Chlorophyceae). Archiv. für Protistenkunde. 125 (1/4): 209-214.

Jordan, S. D.; Dunham, D. W. (1981) Two new color morphs of the crayfish Orconectes propinquus(Girard) from Lake Simcoe, Ontario. American Midland Naturalist 105(2): 384-385.

Ihssen, P. E.; Evans, D. O.; Christie, W. J.; Reckahn, J. A. & Desjardine, R. L. (1981) Life history, morphology, and electrophoretic characteristics of five allopatric stocks of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in the Great Lakes region. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38: 1790-1807.

MacLean, J. A.; Evans, D. O.; Martin, N. V.; DesJardine, R. L. (1981) Survival, growth, spawning distribution, and movement of introduced and native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in two inland Ontario lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38(12): 1685-1700.

MacCrimmon, H. R.; Pugsley, R. W. (1979) Food and feeding of the rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) in Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Canadian Field-Naturalist 93(3): 266-271.

Frank, R.; Van Hove Holdrinet, M.; DesJardine, R. L.; Dodge, D. P. (1978) Organochlorine and mercury residues in fish from Lake Simcoe, Ontario 1970-76. Environmental Biology of Fishes3(3): 275-285.

Johnston, R. B.; Cassavoy, K. A. (1978) The fishweirs at Atherley Narrows, Ontario. American Antiquity 43(4) 697-709.

Nicholls, K. H. (1976) Nutrient-phytoplankton relationships in the Holland Marsh, Ontario.Ecological Monographs 46(2): 179-199

Nicholls, K. H.; MacCrimmon, H. R. (1975) Nutrient loading to Cook Bay of Lake Simcoe from the Holland River Watershed. International Review of Hydrobiology 60(2): 159-193.

Nicholls, K. H.; MacCrimmon, H. R. (1974) Nutrients in subsurface and runoff waters of the Holland Marsh, Ontario. Journal of Environmental Quality 3: 31-35.

Campbell, J. S.; MacCrimmon, H. R. (1970) Biology of the emerald shiner Notropis atherinoides Rafinesque in Lake Simcoe, Canada. Journal of Fish Biology 2(3): 259-273.

MacCrimmon, H. R. (1963) The recovery of tagged lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, from Lake Simcoe, Ontario. Transactions of the America Fisheries Society 92(3): 315-317.

MacCrimmon, H. R. (1959) Observations on spawning of burbot in Lake Simcoe, Ontario. The Journal of Wildlife Management 23(4): 447-449.

MacCrimmon, H. R. (1958) Observations on the spawning of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, and the post-spawning movement of adult trout in Lake Simcoe. Canadian Fish Culturist 23: 3-11.

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