On spine: Lake ecosystem modeling. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Improved Model Components -- Considerations of Scale in Modeling Large Aquatic Ecosystems / Donald C. McNaught -- Water Column Death and Decomposition of Phytoplankton: An Experimental and Modeling Review / Joseph V. DePinto -- Zooplankton Grazing in Simulation Models: The Role of Vertical Migration / James A. Bowers -- Mathematical Modeling of Phosphorus Dynamics through Integration of Experimental Work and System Theory / Efraim Halfon -- Identification of research needs through model studies -- Modifications to the Model Cleaner Requiring Further Research / Richard A. Park, Theresa W. Groden and Carol J. Desormeau -- The Use of Ecological Models of Lakes in Synthesizing Available Information and Identifying Research Needs / Donald Scavia -- Models In Management -- Predictive Water Quality Models for the Great Lakes: Some Capabilities and Limits / William J. Snodgrass -- Empirical Lake Models for Phosphorus: Development, Applications, Limitations and Uncertainty / Kenneth Howland Reckhow -- A Minimum-Cost Surveillance Plan for Water Quality Trend Detection in Lake Michigan / Leon M. DePalma, Raymond P. Canale and William F. Powers -- New Directions In Ecosystem Analysis -- Preliminary Insights into a Three-Dimensional Ecological-Hydrodynamic Model / Carl W. Chen and Donald J. Smith -- The Examination of Ecosystem Properties of Lake Ontario Through the Use of an Ecological Model / Andrew Robertson and Donald Scavia -- An Analysis of PCB in Lake Ontario Using a Size-Dependent Food Chain Model / Robert V. Thomann. Papers presented at a special symposium held at the 20th Conference on Great Lakes Research at the University of Michigan in 1977.