Refereed Publications
Flamand A, Talbot J, Heathcote AJ, Aulard C, Lapierre J. 2026. From Holocene stability to industrial acceleration: shifting patterns of carbon accumulation in North America boreal and temperate lakes. Environmental Research Letters 21: 074017.
Edlund MB, Wolin JA, Heathcote AJ. 2026. The North American Diatom Symposium: A brief history, 1970-2024. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 169 (1): 1-9.
Holgerson MA, Ray NE, Gannon KA, Heathcote AJ. 2026. Carbon fluxes in two temperate ponds are mediated by stratification and primary producers. Limnology and Oceanography 71 (1): e70273.
Sethna LR, Wilson-Jackson AE, Wagner ND, Fedie AA, White AJ, Edlund MB, Heathcote AJ. 2025. Thermal structure and oxygen depletion provide mechanism for cyanobacterial blooms in remote lakes. Environmental Research Communications 7: 105027.
Natwora KE, Heathcote AJ, Edlund MB, Bowe SE, Kramer BJ, Callaghan JD, Sheik CS. 2025. Rare cyanobacteria drive nitrogen-fixation and cyanotoxin production in an Aphanizomenon-dominated bloom. Harmful Algae 150: 102978.
Biberovic I, Diamond SE, Heathcote AJ, Lini A, Morales-Williams AM. 2025. Diatom-based transfer functions for pH and total phosphorus in Vermont, USA lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 73: 23-34.
Akam SA, Chuang P, Katsev S, Wittkop C, Chamberlain M, Dale AW, Wallmann K, Heathcote AJ, Swanner ED. 2024. Methane-carbon budget of a ferruginous meromictic lake and implications for marine methane dynamics on early Earth. Geology 52 (3): 187-192.
Burge DRL, Edlund MB, Bowe SE, Bowe K, Anderson JP, Bouchard RW, Heathcote AJ, Leavitt PR, Engstrom DR. 2024. Managing the Red Lake Nation’s and Minnesota’s largest lake: monitoring and paleolimnology support a site-specific standard for Upper and Lower Red Lakes (Red Lake Nation and Minnesota, United States). Lake and Reservoir Management 40 (1): 1-17.
Heathcote AJ, Taranu ZE, Tromas N, MacIntyre‐Newell M, Leavitt PR, Pick FR. 2023. Sedimentary DNA and pigments show increasing abundance and toxicity of cyanoHABs during the Anthropocene. Freshwater Biology 68 (11): 1859-1874.
Williams R, Nelson S, Rushforth S, Rey K, Carling G, Bickmore B, Heathcote AJ, Miller T, Meyers L. 2023. Human-driven trophic changes in a large, shallow urban lake: Changes in Utah Lake, Utah from pre-European settlement to the present. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 234 (4): 218.
Anderson J, Paterson A, Eimers C, Valipour R, Zastepa A, Binding C, Heathcote AJ, Edlund MB. 2023. Advances in eutrophication science within Lake of the Woods, a complex transboundary lake–Forward to the special section. Journal of Great Lakes Research 49 (1): 1-7.
Diamond SE, Harvey R, Heathcote AJ, Lini A, Morales-Williams AM. 2022. Decoupling of chemical and biological recovery from acidification in a montane lake, Vermont, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology 68 (4): 427-442.
Ramstack Hobbs JM, Heathcote AJ, VanderMeulen DD, Edlund MB. 2022. Integrating water quality monitoring and diatom community trends to determine landscape-level change in protected lakes. Ecosphere 13 (8): e4199.
Edlund MB, Ramstack Hobbs JM, Heathcote AJ, Engstrom DR, Saros JE, Strock KE, Hobbs WO, Andresen NA, VanderMeulen DD. 2022. Physical characteristics of northern forested lakes predict sensitivity to climate change. Hydrobiologia 849 (12): 2705-2729.
Delaney C, Li X, Holmberg K, Wilson B, Heathcote AJ, Nieber J. 2022. Estimating lake water volume with regression and machine learning methods. Frontiers in Water 4: 886964.
Sauer HM, Hamilton TL, Anderson RE, Umbanhowar Jr. CE, Heathcote AJ. 2022. Diversity and distribution of sediment bacteria across an ecological and trophic gradient. PLOS ONE 17 (3): e0258079.
Wang M, Bao K, Heathcote AJ, Cheng G, Li S, Zhang C. 2021. Spatio-temporal pattern of metal contamination in Chinese lakes since 1850. Catena 196: 104918.
Anderson NJ, Engstrom DR, Leavitt PR, Flood SM, Heathcote AJ. 2020. Changes in coupled carbon‒nitrogen dynamics in a tundra ecosystem predate post-1950 regional warming. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 1 (1): 38.
Anderson NJ, Heathcote AJ, Engstrom DR, GLOBOCARB Data Contributors. 2020. Anthropogenic alteration of nutrient supply increases the global freshwater carbon sink. Science Advances 6 (16): eaaw2145.
Lapierre J, Heathcote AJ, Maisonneuve P, Filstrup CT. 2020. Is limnology becoming increasingly abiotic, riverine, and global? Limnology and Oceanography Letters 5 (2): 204-211.
Saros JE, Anderson NJ, Juggins S, McGowan S, Yde JC, Telling J, Bullard JE, Yallop ML, Heathcote AJ, Burpee BT, Fowler RA, Barry CD, Northington RM, Osburn CL, Pla-Rabes S, Mernild SH, Whiteford EJ, Andrews MG, Kerby JT, Post E. 2019. Arctic climate shifts drive rapid ecosystem responses across the West Greenland landscape. Environmental Research Letters 14 (7): 074027
Edlund MB, Schottler SP, Reavie ED, Engstrom DR, Baratono NG, Leavitt PR, Heathcote AJ, Wilson B, Paterson AM. 2017. Historical phosphorus dynamics in Lake of the Woods (USA-Canada) – does legacy phosphorus still affect the southern basin? Lake and Reservoir Management 33 (4): 386-402.
Cael BB, Heathcote AJ, Seekell DA. 2017. The volume and mean depth of Earth’s lakes. Geophysical Research Letters 44 (1): 209-218.
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Kendall D, and Downing JA. 2016. Biomass pyramids in lake plankton: influence of Cyanobacteria size and abundance. Inland Waters 6 (2): 250-257.
Filstrup CT, Heathcote AJ, Kendall DL, and Downing JA. 2016. Phytoplankton taxonomic compositional shifts across nutrient and light gradients in temperate lakes. Inland Waters 6 (2): 234-249.
Heathcote AJ, Anderson NJ, Prairie YT, del Giorgio PA. 2015. Large increases in carbon burial in northern lakes during the Anthropocene. Nature Communications 6: 10016.
Heathcote AJ, del Giorgio PA, Prairie YT. 2015. Predicting bathymetric features of lakes from the topography of their surrounding landscape. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72 (5): 643-650.
Heathcote AJ, Ramstack Hobbs JM, Anderson NJ, Frings P, Engstrom DR, and Downing JA. 2014. Diatom floristic change and lake paleoproduction as evidence of recent eutrophication in shallow lakes of the midwestern USA. Journal of Paleolimnology 53 (1): 17-34.
Reavie ED, Heathcote AJ, Chraïbi VLS. 2014. Laurentian Great Lakes phytoplankton and their water quality characteristics, including a diatom-based model for paleoreconstruction of phosphorus. PLOS ONE 9(8): e104705.
Filstrup CT, Hillebrand H, Heathcote AJ, Harpole WS, and Downing JA. 2014. Cyanobacteria dominance influences resource use efficiency and community turnover in phytoplankton and zooplankton communities. Ecology Letters 17 (4): 464-474.
Juggins S, Anderson NJ, Ramstack Hobbs JM, and Heathcote AJ. 2013. Reconstructing epilimnetic total phosphorus using diatoms: statistical and ecological constraints. Journal of Paleolimnology 49(3): 373-390.
Heathcote, AJ. 2013. Anthropogenic eutrophication and ecosystem functioning in freshwater lakes. PhD Dissertation, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 158 pp.
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Downing JA. 2013. Watershed sediment losses to lakes accelerating despite agricultural soil conservation efforts. 2013. PLOS ONE 8 (1): e53554.
Filstrup CT, Harpole WS, Heathcote AJ, Shurin J, Kondoh M. 2012. Emerging Issues Workshop Report: Causes and consequences of biodiversity loss across ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 21 (4): 98-99.
Heathcote AJ and Downing JA. 2012. Impacts of eutrophication on carbon burial in freshwater lakes in an intensively agricultural landscape. Ecosystems 15 (1): 60-70.
Technical Reports and Other Publications
Edlund MB, Ramstack Hobbs JM, Heathcote AJ. A paleolimnological study of Myrtle Lake, St. Louis County, Minnesota.Submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Duluth, MN.
Engstrom DR, Heathcote AJ, Burge DRL. 2019. Paleolimnological study of phosphorus-impaired lakes in the Cannon River Watershed. Submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Rochester, MN.
Ramstack Hobbs JM., Edlund MB, Heathcote AJ, Engstrom DR. 2017. A paleolimnological study of Bartlett Lake, Koochiching County, Minnesota. Submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul. MN.
Edlund MB, Ramstack Hobbs JM, Burge DRL, Heathcote AJ. 2016. A paleolimnological study of Net Lake and Lac La Belle, Carlton and Pine Counties, Minnesota. Submitted to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St. Paul, MN.
Filstrup CT, Heathcote AJ, Downing JA. 2014. Sediment accumulation rates still increasing in Iowa’s natural lakes. In McDonough DC (ed.) Getting Into Soil and Water: 2014. Iowa Water Center, Ames, IA. p. 14-16.
Heathcote AJ, Filstrup CT, Downing JA. 2012. Historic water quality conditions in Iowa’s natural lakes. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA
Downing JA, Poole KE, Filstrup CT, Heathcote AJ, Wagner M. 2010. Lower Chain lakes diagnostic/feasibility study. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA.
Downing JA, Poole KE, Heathcote AJ, Wagner M. 2008. A diagnostic/feasibility study of the restoration of Lizard Lake. Submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines, IA.
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