William Lewis

Professor & Director, Center for Limnology

william.lewis@colorado.edu
303-492-6378
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Ph.D., Indiana University, 1974

Research Interests

Freshwater ecology and limnology. Topics of special recent interest include (1) the systems ecology of tropical lakes and rivers; (2) adaptation and ecology of plankton, especially phytoplankton; (3) chemistry of atmospheric deposition, especially as it relates to nutrient mass balance in ecosystems; (4) the trophic ecology of lakes; and (5) water quality and limnology of lakes and streams in Colorado.

Recent Publications

Kaushal, S.S., W.M. Lewis, Jr., and J.F. McCutchan, Jr. 2006. Land Use Change and Nitrogen Enrichment of a Rocky Mountain Watershed. Ecological Applications 16(1): 299-312 .

Lewis, W.M. Jr. et al. 2004. NRC. Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin : Causes of Decline and Strategies for Recovery. National Academies Press, Washington , D.C.

Ortiz-Zayas, J.R., W.M. Lewis, Jr., J.F. Saunders, III, J. H. McCutchan, Jr. and F. N. Scatena. 2005. Metabolism of a tropical rainforest stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24(4): 769-783.

Kaushal, S.S. and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 2005. Fate and transport of organic nitrogenin minimally disturbed montane streams of Colorado , USA . Biogeochemistry 74:303-321.

McCutchan, J.H. Jr., J.F. Saunders, III, A. L. Pribyl, and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 2003. Open-channel estimation of denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 1: 74-81.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. 2002. Causes for the high frequency of nitrogen limitation in tropical lakes. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 28: 210-213.

McCutchan, J.H. Jr. and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 2002. Relative importance of carbon sources for macroinvertebrates in a Rocky Mountain stream. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 742-752.

Lewis, W. M. Jr. 2001. Wetlands Explained. Wetland Science, Policy, and Politics in America . Oxford University Press, New York , NY .