Dr. Ludsin worked with a team of researchers to explore the relationships between nutrient loading, fish populations, hypoxia, and temperatures in Lake Erie. While current nutrient loading favors yellow perch and walleye, it also causes increased hypoxia which harms whitefish; these relationships will be altered with warming temperatures and shifting nutrient management regimes. The authors refer to this as a "wicked problem" and assert that it can only be addressed through adaptive ecosystem-based management.

Colleagues at the Unviersity of Michigan also produced a press release for this publication.

Scavia, D., S.A. Ludsin, A.M. Michalak, D.R. Obenour, M. Han, L.T. Jonson, Y-C Wang, and G. Zhao. 2024. Water quality-fisheries tradeoffs in a changing climate underscore the need for adaptive ecosystem-based management. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(45):e2322595121 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322595121