Carlson, R.E. 1977. A trophic state index for lakes. Limnology and Oceanography. 22:361-369.
Schoenberg, S.A. and R.E. Carlson. 1984. Direct and indirect effects of zooplankton grazing on phytoplankton in a hypereutrophic lake. Oikos. 42: 291-302.
Fritz, S.C. and R.E. Carlson. 1982. Stratigraphic diatom and chemical evidence for acid strip-mine lake recovery. Water, Air and Soil Pollution. 17:151-163.
Reiter, M.A. and R.E. Carlson. 1986. Current velocity in streams and the composition of benthic algal mats. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 43: 1156-1162.
Barbiero, R., R.E. Carlson, and G.D. Cooke. 1988. The effects of a continuous application of aluminum sulfate on lotic benthic invertebrates. Lake and Reservoir Management. 4: 63-72.
Palmstrom, N.S., R.E. Carlson and G.D. Cooke. 1988. Potential links between eutrophication and suspected carcinogens in drinking water. Lake and Reservoir Management 4: 1-15.
Carlson, R.E. and J. Simpson. 1996. A Coordinator's Guide to Volunteer Lake Monitoring Methods. North American Lake Management Society. 96 pp.
Carlson, R.E. 1997. The Secchi disk in black and white. LakeLine. 17: 14-15, 58-59
Lee, J., M.R. Binkley, and R.E. Carlson. 1997. The Great American Dip-In: GIS contributes to national snapshot of lake-water transparency. GIS World. 10: 42-44.
Jenerette, D. J. Lee, D. Waller, and R. Carlson. 1998. The effect of spatial dimensions on regionalization of lake water quality data. Proc. 8th Internat. Symp. On Spatial Data Handling. International Geographical Union. p. 256-265.
Havens, K.E. and R.E. Carlson. 1998. Functional complementarity in plankton communities along a gradient of acid stress. Environmental Pollution. 101:427-436.
Gerritsen, J., R.E. Carlson, D.L. Dycus, C. Faulkner, M. G.R. Gibson, John Harcom, and S.A. Markowitz. 1998. Lake and Reservoir Bioassessment and Biocriteria. U.S. EPA Office of Water. EPA 841-B-98-007. 202 pp.
Carlson, R.E., S. Chapra, J. Gerritson, G. Gibson, S. Heiskary, J. Jones, M. Nozik, J. Simpson, E. Smeltzer. 1999. Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs. U.S. EPA Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology. EPA-822-B00-001.
Jenerette, D. J. Lee, D. Waller, and R. Carlson. 2002. Multivariate analysis of the ecoregion delineation for aquatic systems. Environmental Management 29: 67-75. >
Shoup,
D.E., R.E. Carlson, and R.T. Heath. 2003. The effect of predation
risk and foraging return on the diel use of vegetated habitat by two size
classes of bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus). Transactions of the
American Fisheries Society 132:590-597. Shoup,
D.E., Carlson, R.E., Heath, R.T., and Kershner, M.W. 2003. Comparison of
the catch rate, species composition and length distribution of the catch from
trap nets with three different mesh and throat size combinations. North
American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:462-469.