"Entertaining, informative, well-structured, and well-illustrated book..."--Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin"I highly recommend this book to all those who are interested in long-term researches on lakes, and are confronted with lake-management issues..." --SIL News"The book is not only an excellent summary of the innovative landscape-scale work done at North Temperate Lakes (NTL), one of the six original LTER sites, but it also provides an engaging history of the site's operations and evolving research goals. ... Exceptionally well written."--Ecology"This book provides an excellent overview and introduction to the literature of this very successful research program. This book should be in all academic libraries in Wisconsin and other parts of the lake-rich northland, and will also be useful to aquatic ecologists worldwide."--Choice"Entertaining, informative, well-structured, and well-illustrated book..."--Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin"I highly recommend this book to all those who are interested in long-term researches on lakes, and are confronted with lake-management issues..." --SIL News"The book is not only an excellent summary of the innovative landscape-scale work done at North Temperate Lakes (NTL), one of the six original LTER sites, but it also provides an engaging history of the site's operations and evolving research goals. ... Exceptionally well written."--Ecology"This book provides an excellent overview and introduction to the literature of this very successful research program. This book should be in all academic libraries in Wisconsin and other parts of the lake-rich northland, and will also be useful to aquatic ecologists worldwide."--Choice

• Contributors 1: John J. Magnuson, Timonth K. Kratz, and Barbara J. Benson: The Challenge of Time and Space in Ecology I CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES 2: Katherine E. Webster, Carl J. Bowser, Mary P. Anderson, and John D. Lenters: Understanding the Lake-Groundwater System: Just Follow the Water 3: Timothy K. Kratz, Katherine E. Webster, Joan L. Riera, David B. Lewis, and Amina I. Pollard: Making Sense of the Landscape: Geomorphic Legacies and the Landscape Position of Lakes 4: Shelley E. Arnott, John J. Magnuson, Stanley I. Dodson, and Alison C. C. Colby: Lakes as Islands: Biodiversity, Invasion, and Extinction 5: John J. Magnuson, Timothy K. Kratz, Barbara J. Benson, and Katherine E. Webster: Coherent Dynamics among Lakes 6: Joan L. Riera, Timothy K. Kratz, and John J. Magnuson: Generalization from Intersite Research II DRIVERS OF LONG-TERM DYNAMICS 7: John J. Magnuson, Barbara J. Benson, John D. Lenters, and Dale M. Robertson: Climate-Driven Variability and Change 8: Karen A. Wilson and Thomas R. Hrabik: Ecological Change and Exotic Invaders 9: Thomas M. Frost, Janet M. Fischer, Patrick L. Brezonik, María J. González, Timothy K. Kratz, Carl J. Watras, and Katherine E. Webster: The Experimental Acidification of Little Rock Lake 10: David E. Armstrong, George H. Lauster, Beth L. Sanderson, David B. Lewis, and Thomas M. Frost: Jumping In: Within-Lake Processes and Dynamics 11: Bradley S. Jorgensen, David Nowacek , Richard C. Stedman, and Kathy Brasier: People in a Forested Lake District 12: Stephen R. Carpenter, Richard C. Lathrop, Peter Nowak, Elena M. Bennett, Tara Reed, and Patricia A. Soranno: The Ongoing Experiment: Restoration of Lake Mendota and its Watershed III DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING LONG-TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 13: Barbara Benson, Paul Hanson, Jonathan Chipman, and Carl Bowser: Breaking the Data Barrier: Research Facilitation through Information Management 14: John J. Magnuson, Barbara J. Benson, Timothy K. Kratz, David E. Armstrong, Carl J. Bowser, Alison C. C. Colby, Timothy W. Meinke, Pamela K. Montz, and Katherine E. Webster: Origin, Operation, Evolution, and Challenges IV SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS 15: Barbara J. Benson, Timothy K. Kratz, and John J. Magnuson: Synthetic Summary and Prospective