Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions

…, MR Moore, DJ Posselt, RP Richards… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
In 2011, Lake Erie experienced the largest harmful algal bloom in its recorded history, with a
peak intensity over three times greater than any previously observed bloom. Here we show …

Ecological risk assessment of atrazine in North American surface waters

KR Solomon, DB Baker, RP Richards… - … and Chemistry: An …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
… The main sources of data were the Ohio databases of Baker and Richards and a number
of additional data sets from Canada [61–64] and large rivers in the US (K. Balu, personal …

A NEW FLASHINESS INDEX: CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS TO MIDWESTERN RIVERS AND STREAMS1

DB Baker, RP Richards, TT Loftus… - JAWRA Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Richards Pathlength to the form shown in Equation (2). Inclusion of the x-axis (time) in the
Richards … We refer to the new index as the Richards-Baker Flashiness Index (abbreviated as …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing and addressing the re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Central basin hypoxia

…, D Mason, AM Michalak, RP Richards… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2014 - Elsevier
Relieving phosphorus loading is a key management tool for controlling Lake Erie eutrophication.
During the 1960s and 1970s, increased phosphorus inputs degraded water quality and …

The re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Harmful algal blooms and hypoxia

…, G Matisoff, SP McElmurry, MW Murray, RP Richards… - Harmful algae, 2016 - Elsevier
Lake Erie supplies drinking water to more than 11 million consumers, processes millions of
gallons of wastewater, provides important species habitat and supports a substantial …

Pesticide concentration patterns in agricultural drainage networks in the Lake Erie basin

RP Richards, DB Baker - Environmental Toxicology and …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents information on pesticide concentrations in Lake Erie tributaries draining
agricultural watersheds, information distilled from data sets spanning nearly a decade and …

Re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Correlations between tributary nutrient loads and phytoplankton biomass

DD Kane, JD Conroy, RP Richards, DB Baker… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2014 - Elsevier
Both abiotic and biotic explanations have been proposed to explain recent recurrent
nuisance/harmful algal blooms in the western basin and central basin of Lake Erie. We used two …

Long-term and seasonal trend decomposition of Maumee River nutrient inputs to western Lake Erie

…, LT Johnson, R Confesor, RP Richards - Environmental …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Cyanobacterial blooms in western Lake Erie have recently garnered widespread attention.
Current evidence indicates that a major source of the nutrients that fuel these blooms is the …

Monte Carlo studies of sampling strategies for estimating tributary loads

RP Richards, J Holloway - Water Resources Research, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
Richards, RP, Estimating the extent of reduction needed to statistically demonstrate reduced
nonpoint phosphorus loading to Lake Erie, J. Great Lakes Res., 11, 110-117, 1985. Sokal, …

Phosphorus budgets and riverine phosphorus export in northwestern Ohio watersheds

DB Baker, RP Richards - Journal of Environmental Quality, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Phosphorus (P) budgets for large watersheds are often used to predict trends in riverine P
export. To test such predictions, we calculated annual P budgets for 1975–1995 for soils of the …