Current rates of climate change are unprecedented, and biological responses to these
changes have also been rapid at the levels of ecosystems, communities, and species. Most …

Leaves entering low order streams are subject to physical abrasion, microbial degradation
and invertebrate fragmentation. Aquatic invertebrates feeding on leaves are known as …

Gammarus spp. are widespread throughout a diverse range of freshwater habitats and can
be the dominant part of many benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages, in terms of both …

1. The importance of leaf quality to the nutritional ecology of lotic shredders is well
established for temperate species but virtually unknown for tropical taxa. In the present …

Terrestrial-derived invertebrate (TI) inputs into streams and predation on them by salmonids
(40-180 mm fork length) were measured in six coastal Alaska stream reaches from April …

We documented immediate and mid-term (5 years) impacts on streams from a large (15,500
ha) wildfire in northwestern Montana. Fire-related impacts were ecosystem-wide, extending …

Plant litter breakdown is a key ecological process in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
Streams and rivers, in particular, contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes. However …

Effects of chronic application of the fungicide Derosal®(active ingredient carbendazim) were
studied in indoor macrophyte-dominated freshwater microcosms. The concentrations (0, 3.3 …

Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the trophic position of various consumers is central
to many theories of aquatic ecosystem functioning and dynamics. In recent years, such …

Research has often focused on the pelagic areas of lakes; the littoral zone has received less
attention. The few studies concerning fish distribution in littoral habitats have concentrated …