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Pace ,
Michael L. 		Research Interests

Professor; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1981.

Aquatic ecosystems, food webs, carbon cycling, biogeochemistry, microbial ecology

344 Clark Hall
434-924-6541
pacem@virginia.edu

I am an aquatic ecologist with broad interests in lake, river, and estuarine ecosystems. I currently have research projects focused on: 1) the support of aquatic food webs by terrestrial organic matter, 2) the long-term impacts of a zebra mussel invasion, 3) the detection of leading indicators of ecosystem regime shifts using a whole-lake manipulation, and 4) the role of atmospheric deposition and landscape structure in determining organic carbon and nutrient inputs to lakes.


Selected Recent Publications

Strayer, D.L., M.L. Pace, N.F. Caraco, J.J. Cole, and S. Findlay. 2008. Hydrology and grazing jointly control a large-river food web. Ecology 89:12-18

Carpenter, S.R., W.A. Brock, J.J. Cole, J.F. Kitchell, and M.L. Pace. 2008. Leading indicators of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 11: 128-138.

Pace, M.L., S.R. Carpenter, J.J. Cole, J. Coloso., J.F. Kitchell, J.R. Hodgson, J.J. Middelburg, N.D. Preston, C.T. Solomom, B. Weidel. 2007. Does terrestrial organic carbon subsidize the plankton food web in a clear-water lake? Limnology and Oceanography 52: 2177-2189.

Strayer, D.L, V.T. Eviner, J.M. Jeschke, and M.L. Pace. 2006. Understanding the long-term effects of species invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 645-651.

Cole, J.J., M.L. Pace, S.R. Carpenter, M.C. Van De Bogert, J.F. Kitchell, and J.R. Hodgson. 2006. Differential support of lake food webs by three types of terrestrial carbon. Ecology Letters 9: 558-568.

Carpenter, S.R., J.J. Cole, M.L. Pace, M. Van de Bogert, D.L. Bade, D. Bastviken, C. Gille, J.R. Hodgson, J.F. Kitchell, and E.S. Kritzberg. 2005. Ecosystem subsidies: Terrestrial support of aquatic food webs from 13C addition to contrasting lakes. Ecology 86: 2737-2750.

Pace, M.L., and Y.T. Prairie. 2005. Respiration in lakes, pp. 103-121 In P.J. le. B. Williams and P.A. del Giorgio (eds.). Respiration in Aquatic Ecosystems. Oxford University Press.

Canham, C.D., M.L. Pace, M.J. Papaik, A.G.B. Primack, K.M. Roy, R.J. Maranger, R.P. Curran, and D.M. Spada. 2004. A spatially-explicit watershed-scale analysis of dissolved organic carbon in Adirondack lakes. Ecological Applications 14: 839-854.

Palmer, M., E. Bernhardt, E. Chornesky, S. Collins, A. Dobson, C. Duke, B. Gold, R. Jacobsen, S. Kingsland, R. Kranz, M. Mappin, M.L. Martinez, F. Micheli, J. Morse, M. Pace, M. Pascual, S. Palumbi, O.J. Reichman, A. Simons, A. Townsend, and M. Turner. 2004. Ecology for a crowded planet. Science 304: 1251-1252.

Pace, M.L., J.J. Cole, S.R. Carpenter, J.F. Kitchell, J.R. Hodgson, M. Van de Bogert, D.L. Bade, E.S. Kritzberg, and D. Bastviken. 2004. Whole lake carbon-13 additions reveal terrestrial support of aquatic food webs. Nature 427: 240-243.

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