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Baron, J. ed. 1992. Biogeochemistry of a subalpine ecosystem: Loch Vale Watershed. Ecological Study Series #90. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Baron, J.S., Heather M. Rueth, Alexander M. Wolfe, Koren R. Nydick, Eric J. Allstott, J. Toby Minear, and Brenda Moraska.. 2000. Ecosystem Responses to Nitrogen Deposition in the Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems 3: 352-368.

Baron, J.S. 2001. Lessons learned from long-term ecosystem research and monitoring in alpine and subalpine basins of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA.. Ekológia (Bratislava) 20, Supplement 2:25-30.

Baron, J.S., K.R. Nydick, H.M. Rueth, B.M. Lafrancois, and A.P. Wolfe. 2003. High elevation ecosystem responses to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Global Change and Mountain Regions: A State of Knowledge Overview. Ulli M. Huber, Harald K.M. Bugmann, and M.A. Reasoner, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. In press.

Hauer, R., J.S. Baron, D.H. Campbell, K.D. Fausch, S.W. Hostettler, G.H. Leavesley, P.R. Leavitt, D.M. McKnight, and J.A. Stanford. 1997. Assessment of climate change and freshwater ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains, U.S. and Canada. Hydrol. Proc. 11:903-924.

McKnight, D., C. Miller, R. Smith, J. Baron and S. Spaulding. 1988. Phytoplankton populations in lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: sensitivity to acidic conditions and nitrate enrichment. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 88-4115, Denver, CO. 102 pp.

McKnight, D., M.V. Brenner, R. Smith and J. Baron. 1986. Seasonal changes in phytoplankton in lakes in Loch Vale, Rocky Mountain National Park. USGS Water Resources Investigations Report 86-4101. Denver, CO. 64 pp.

McKnight, D.M., R.L. Smith, J.P. Bradbury, J. Baron, and S.A. Spaulding. 1990. Phytoplankton dynamics in three Rocky Mountain lakes, Colorado, USA. Arc. Alp. Resear. 22:264-274.

McKnight, D.M., R. Harnish, R.L. Wershaw, J.S. Baron, and S. Schiff. 1997. Chemical characteristics of particulate, colloidal, and dissolved organic material in Loch Vale Watershed, Rocky Mountain National Park. Biogeochemistry 36:99-124.

Minear, J.T. 1998. Recent changes in water chemistry and diatom assemblages of high-altitude aquatic ecosystems in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Senior Thesis, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO.

Moraska Lafrançois, B. 2002. Algal and invertebrate responses to atmospheric nitrogen deposition in Rocky Mountain lakes. Ph.D. Dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.

Moraska Lafrançois B., K.M. Nydick, and B. Caruso. 2003. Influence of nitrogen on phytoplankton biomass and community composition in fifteen Snowy Range lakes (Wyoming, U.S.A.). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 35:499-508.

Moraska Lafrançois, B., D. M. Carlisle, K. R. Nydick, B. M. Johnson, J. S. Baron. 2003. Environmental Characteristics and Benthic Invertebrate Assemblages in Colorado Mountain Lakes. Western North American Naturalist 63:137-154.

Moraska Lafrancois, B., K.R. Nydick, B.M. Johnson, and J.S. Baron. 2004. Cumulative effects of nutrients and pH on the plankton of two mountain lakes. Can. Jour. Fish. Aquat. Sciences. 61: 1153-1165.

Nydick, K.R., 2002. Mountain lake responses to elevated nitrogen deposition. Ph.D. dissertation, Colorado State University, Fort Collins. 162 pp.

Nydick, K.R., B. Moraska Lafrancois, J.S. Baron, and B.M. Johnson. 2003. Lake-specific responses to elevated atmospheric nitrogen deposition in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, USA. Hydrobiologia, 510: 103-114.

Nydick, K.R., B. Moraska LaFrancois, and J.S. Baron. 2004. NO3 uptake in shallow, oligotrophic, mountain lakes: the influence of elevated NO3 concentrations. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 23(3): 397-415.

Nydick, K.R., B. Morasks LaFrancois, J.S. Baron and B.M. Johnson. 2004. Nitrogen regulation of algal biomass, productivity, and composition in shallow mountain lakes, Snowy Range, Wyoming, USA. Can. Journ. Fish. Aquat. Sciences. 61: 1256-1268.

Spaulding, S.A. 1992. Phytoplankton and zooplankton under ice cover in a subalpine lake, The Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park, 1987-89. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-489.33 pp.

Spaulding, S.A. 1991. Phytoplankton community dynamics under ice-cover in The Loch, a lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. M.S. thesis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins.

Spaulding, S.A., J. Baron, and J.V. Ward. 1993. Phytoplankton community dynamics under ice cover in The Loch, a lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. Arch. Hydrobiol. 129:179-198.