Publications

2013

• McGowan S., 2013. Pigment Studies. In: Elias S.A., ed., The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science Second edition. 3. Elsevier: Amsterdam. 326-338.
• Strock, K.E., Saros, J.E., Simon, K.S. and McGowan, S. 2013. Cascading effects of generalist fish introduction in oligotrophic lakes Hydrobiologia. 711(1), 99-113.
• Bjerring, R., Olsen, J., Jeppesen, E., Buchardt, B., Heinemeir, J., McGowan, S., Leavitt, P.R., Enevold, R. and Odgaard, B.V., 2013. Climate-driven changes in water level: a decadal scale multi-proxy study recording the 8.2-ka event and ecosystem responses in Lake Sarup (Denmark) Journal of Paelolimnology. 49(2), 267-285.
• Kowalewski, G.A., Kornijow, R., McGowan, S., Woszczyk, M., Suchora, M., Kaczorowska, A., Balaga, K., Gasiorowski, M., Szeroczynska, K. and Wasilowska, A, 2013. Persistence of protected, vulnerable macrophyte species in a small, shallow eutrophic lake (eastern Poland) over the past two centuries: implications for lake management and conservation. Aquatic Botany 106, 201, 1–13.

2012

• Anderson, N.J., A.C. Liversidge, S. McGowan & M.D. Jones (2012). Lake and catchment response to neoglacial cooling in SW Greenland: spatial variability along a regional climate gradient. Journal of Paleolimnology 48, 209-222.
• Brooks, S.J., Jones, V.J., Telford, R.J., Appleby, P.G., Watson, E., McGowan, S. and Benn, S. (2012) Population trends in the Slavonian grebe Podiceps auritus (L.) and Chironomidae (Diptera) at a Scottish loch.  Journal of Paleolimnology. 47(4), 631-644.
• McGowan, S., Barker, P., Haworth, E.Y., Leavitt, P.R., Maberly, S.C., Pates, J. (2012) Humans and climate as drivers of algal community change in Windermere since 1850. Freshwater Biology 57, 260-277.

2011

• Jones, V.J., Solovieva, N., Self, A.E.., McGowan, S., Rosén, P., Salonen, J.S, Seppä, H., Väliranta, M., Parrott, E. and Brooks, S.J. (2011) The influence of Holocene tree-line advance and retreat on an arctic lake ecosystem: a multi-proxy study from Kharinei Lake, North Eastern European Russia. Journal of Paleolimnology 46:123–137
• McGowan, S., Leavitt, P.R., Hall, R.I., Wolfe, B.B., Edwards, T.W.D., Karst-Riddoch, T.L., Vardy, S.R. (2011) Interdecadal declines in flood frequency increase primary production in lakes of a northern river delta. Global Change Biology. 17: 1212-1224. 

2010

• Bennike, O., Anderson, N.J. and McGowan, S. (2010) Palaeoecology of Holocene sediments from the oligosaline lake SS6 near Kangerlussusaq in south-west Greenland: macrofossil evidence. Journal of Paleolimnology 43,787-798.
• Vane, C.H., Kim, A.W., McGowan, S., Leng, M.J., Heaton, T.H.E., (2010) Kendrick, C.P., Coombs, P., Swann, G.E.A. Sedimentary records of sewage pollution using faecal markers in contrasting peri-urban shallow lakes. Science of the Total Environment 409(2) 345-356
• McGowan, S., Barker, B., Pates, J and Maberly, S. (2010) Linking limnology and palaeolimnology using algal pigments at Windermere: FBA News article (#2)

2009

• Pham, S.V., Leavitt, P.R. McGowan, Wissel, S. and Wassenaar,L.. (2009) Spatial and temporal variability of prairie lake hydrology as revealed using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen. Limnology and Oceanography.
• McGowan, S. and Leavitt, P.R. (2009) The role of paleoecology in whole ecosystem science.  In: Real world ecology: large scale and long term Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods, edited by ShiLi Miao, Susan Carstenn, and Martha Nungesser.

• Leavitt, P.R., Fritz, S.C., Anderson, N.J., Baker, P.A., Blenckner, T., Bunting, L., Catalan, J., Conley, D.J., Hobbs, W., Jeppesen, E., Korhola, A., McGowan, S., Rühland, K., Rusak, J.A., Simpson, G., Soloveiva, N. and Werne, J. (2009) Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans. Limnology and Oceanography 54, 2330-2348.. 

 2008

• McGowan, S., Grauert, M. and Anderson, N.J. (2008) A Late Holocene record of landscape degradation from the Faroe Islands. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 264: 11-24.
• McGowan, S., Juhler, R.K. and Anderson, N.J. (2008) Autotrophic response to lake age, conductivity and temperature in two West Greenland lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 309: 301-317.
• Wolfe, B.B., Hall, R.I., Edwards, T.W.D., Vardy, S.R., Falcone, M.D., Sjunneskog, C., Sylvestre, F., McGowan, S., Leavitt, P.R. and van Driel, P. (2008) Hydroecological responses of the Athabasca Delta, Canada, to changes in river flow and climate during the 20th century.  Ecohydrology 1: 131-148
• Anderson, N.J., Brodersen, K., Ryves, D., McGowan, S., Johansson, L., Jeppesen, E., Leng, M. (2008).  Auto- versus allogenic controls of community structure in an oligotrophic lake in the low-arctic of south-west Greenland. Ecosystems 11, 307-324.

   

• Pham, S.V., Leavitt, P.R., McGowan, S., and Peres-Neto, P. (2008) Spatial variability of climate and land-use effects on lakes of the northern Great Plains. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 728-742.

2007

• McGowan, S. (2007). Pigments in sediments of aquatic environments.  In: Elias, S. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Sciences. Elsevier.  
• Wolfe, B.B, T. Karst-Riddoch, R.I. Hall, T.W.D. Edwards, M.C. English, R. Palmini, S. McGowan, P.R. Leavitt & S.R. Vardy (2007). Water balance and hydrolimnological relationships in northern floodplain basins (Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada) from stable isotopes (δ18O and δ2H) and water chemistry. Hydrological processes 21: 151-168.

2005

• McGowan, S, A. Patoine, M.D. Graham and P.R. Leavitt. (2005). Intrinsic and extrinsic controls on lake phytoplankton synchrony.  Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 29: 794-798
• McGowan, S., P.R. Leavit R.I. Hall, N.J. Anderson, E. Jeppesen & B.V. Odgaard. (2005).Controls of algal abundance and community composition during ecosystem state change. Ecology 86: 2200-2211.
• McGowan, S., P.R. Leavitt & R.I. Hall. (2005). A whole-lake experiment to determine the effects of winter droughts on shallow lakes. Ecosystems 8: 694-708.
• Anderson, N.J., D.B. Ryves, M. Grauert & S. McGowan. (2005). Holocene paleolimnology of Greenland and the northern North Atlantic Islands. In: Long term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic lakes. Ed. R. Pienitz, M. Douglas and J.P. Smol. ”Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research” Series.

2004

• Rusak, J.A., P.R. Leavitt, S. McGowan, G. Chen, O. Olson, S. Wunsam & B. Cumming (2004). Millenial records of species richness and ecosystem function in two prairie lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 49:1290-1299.

2003 and earlier

• McGowan, S., Ryves, D.B. & Anderson, N.J. (2003). Holocene records of effective precipitation in West Greenland. The Holocene 13 (2): 239-249.
• Ryves, D.B., McGowan, S. & Anderson, N.J. (2002). Development and application of a diatom-conductivity model from lakes in West Greenland. Freshwater Biology 47: 995-1014.
• Renberg, I., Bindler, R., Bradshaw, E.G., Emteryd, O. & McGowan, S. (2001). Sediment evidence of early eutrophication and heavy metal pollution of Lake Mälaren, Central Sweden. Ambio 30 (8): 496-502.
• Anderson, N.J., Clarke, A., Juhler,R.K., McGowan,S. & Renberg, I. (2000). Coring of laminated sediments from lakes for pigment and mineral magnetic analyses, Søndre Strømfjord, southern West Greenland. Report of Greenland Activities, 1999. 186: 83-87.
• McGowan, S., G. Britton, E.Y. Haworth & B. Moss (1999). Ancient blue-green blooms Limnology and Oceanography 44 (2): 436-439.
• Hameed, H.A., Kilinc, S., McGowan, S. & Moss, B. (1999) Physiological tests and bioassays- aids or superfluities to the diagnosis of phytoplankton nutrient limitation? A comparitive study in the Broads and the Meres of England. European Journal of Phycology 34(3): 253-269.
• Moss, B., Beklioglu, M., Carvalho, L., Kilinc, S., McGowan, S. & Stephen, D. (1996). Vertically-challenged limnology; contrasts between deep and shallow lakes. Hydrobiologia 342/ 343: 257-267.
• Moss, B., McGowan, S. & Carvalho, L. (1994). Determination of phytoplankton crops by top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in a group of English lakes, the West Midland Meres. Limnology and Oceanography 39 (5): 1020-1029.