Robert Hecky

Research:
Nutrient and carbon cycling in aquatic systems
Limnology and paleolimnology of the African Great Lakes
Phytoplankton-nutrient interactions
Nutrient biogeochemistry
Stable isotope applications to ecology
Hg and organochlorine contamination of food webs

Courses:
BIOL 5861 Lake Ecology
BIOL 5869 Great Lakes Ecology and Management

Recent Publications
175 total (including 75 on African lakes) Complete list available upon request. Some recent publications below:
Guildford, S.J., Bootsma, H.A., Taylor, W.D., Hecky, R.E. 2007. High variability of phytoplankton photosynthesis in response to environmental forcing in oligotrophic Lake Malawi/Nyasa. J. Great Lakes Res. 33:170-185.
Gondwe, M. J., Guildford, S.J., Hecky. 2007. Planktonic nitrogen fixation in Lake Malawi/Nyasa. In press. Hydrobiologia.
Gondwe, M.J., Guildford, S.J., Hecky, R.E. 2007. Sandy shore benthic N2-fixation in Lake Malawi, Africa. Accepted. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.
Higgins, S.N., Malkin, S. Y., Howell, E. T., Guildford, S.J., Campbell, L., Hiriart-Baer, V., Hecky, R. E. 2007. An ecological review of Cladophora glomerata (Chlorophyta) in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Accepted J. Phycology.
Guildford, S.J., Bootsma, H.A., Taylor, W.D., Hecky, R.E. 2007. High variability of phytoplankton photosynthesis in response to environmental forcing in oligotrophic Lake Malawi/Nyasa. J. Great Lakes Res. 33:170-185.
Campbell, L., R.E. Hecky, D.G. Dixon and L. Chapman.2006. Food web structure and mercury transfer in two contrasting Ugandan highland crater lakes (East Africa). African Journal of Ecology 44:337-346.
Boesch, D.F., R.E. Hecky, C. O’Melia, D.W. Schindler, and S. Seitzinger. 2006. Eutrophication of Swedish Seas. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Report 5509:67 p.
Hecky, R.E., H.A. Bootsma, and E. Odada. 2006. African Lake Management Initiatives: The Global Connection. Lakes and Reservoirs: Research and Management 11:203-213.
Tamatamah, R., R.E. Hecky and H.C. Duthie. 2006. Phosphorus and suspended sediment loading from two rivers flowing into Lake Victoria Tanzania. Verh. Verein. Theor. Angew. Limnol. 29:1697-1701.
Higgins, S.N., R.E. Hecky and S.J. Guildford. 2006. Environmental Controls on Cladophora growth dynamics in eastern Lake Erie: Application of the Cladophora growth model. J. Great Lakes Research 32:629-644.
André, E.R., H.C. Duthie, and R.E. Hecky. 2006. Energy and nutrient dynamics of rock dwelling cichlids grazing on epilithic periphyton of the littoral zone of Lake Malawi, Africa. Verh. Verein. Theor. Angew. Limnol.29.
Silsbe, G.R., S.J. Guildford and R.E.Hecky. 2006. Variability in chlorophyll a and photosynthetic parameters in Lake Victoria a nutrient saturated Great Lake. Limnology and Oceanography 51(5):2052-2063.
Guildford, S.J., R.E. Hecky, R.E.H. Smith, M.N. Charlton, W.D. Taylor, L. Barlow-Busch and R.L. North. 2005. Phytoplankton nutrient status in Lake Erie in 1997. J. Great Lakes. Res. 31 (suppl. 2): 72-88.
Luis F. León, Jörg Imberger, Ralph E.H. Smith, Robert E. Hecky, David C.L. Lam and William M. Schertzer. 2005. Modeling as a Tool for Nutrient Management in Lake Erie: a Hydrodynamics Study. J. Great Lakes Res. 31 (suppl. 2): 309-318.
Davies, J.M. and R.E. Hecky. 2005. Initial measurements of benthic photosynthesis in Lake Erie: Community, spatial and temporal variability. J. Great Lakes. Res. 31(suppl. 2).
Campbell, L.M., S.B. Wandera, R. Thacker, G.D. Dixon and R.E. Hecky. 2005. Trophic niche segregation in the Nilotic icthyofauna of Lake Albert (Uganda, Africa). Environmental Biology of Fishes 74:247-260.