Control of lacustrine phytoplankton by nutrients: erosion of the phosphorus paradigm

WM Lewis Jr, WA Wurtsbaugh - International Review of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Control of lacustrine phytoplankton biomass by phosphorus is one of the oldest and most
stable paradigms in modern limnology. Even so, evidence from bioassays conducted by …

A prospectus for periphyton: recent and future ecological research

ST Larned - Journal of the North American Benthological …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
The presence, abundance, composition, and growth of periphyton are controlled or
influenced by 5 broad classes of environmental variation: disturbances, stressors, resources …

Nitrogen, phosphorus, and eutrophication in streams

WK Dodds, VH Smith - Inland Waters, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Flowing waters receive substantial nutrient inputs, including both nitrogen (N) and
phosphorus (P), in many parts of the world. Eutrophication science for rivers and streams …

Stream microbial ecology

S Findlay - Journal of the North American Benthological …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Microbes play numerous roles in stream ecosystems. They carry out key processes in
stream nutrient cycles and are responsible for a large part of organic matter breakdown …

Nitrogen fixation: A poorly understood process along the freshwater‐marine continuum

AM Marcarelli, RW Fulweiler… - … and Oceanography Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
N2 fixation is a major component of the global N cycle and has been extensively studied in
open‐ocean and terrestrial ecosystems. Yet rates and ecological dynamics remain virtually …

Nutrient dynamics in streams and the role of J-NABS

PJ Mulholland, JR Webster - Journal of the North American …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
Nutrient dynamics in streams has been an important topic of research since the 1960s. Here
we review this topic and the significant role played by J-NABS in its development. We limit …

Cyanobacteria in freshwater benthic environments

JT Scott, AM Marcarelli - Ecology of cyanobacteria II: their diversity in …, 2012 - Springer
Cyanobacteria are widespread in freshwater benthic environments, which include wetlands,
lake littoral zones, streams and rivers. This chapter outlines the major constraints on …

Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria (free-living and diatom endosymbionts): their use in southern California stream bioassessment

R Stancheva, RG Sheath, BA Read, KD McArthur… - Hydrobiologia, 2013 - Springer
A weight-of-evidence approach was used to examine how nutrient availability influences
stream benthic algal community structure and to validate nutrient-response thresholds in …

Does N2 fixation amplify the temperature dependence of ecosystem metabolism?

JR Welter, JP Benstead, WF Cross, JM Hood… - Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Variation in resource supply can cause variation in temperature dependences of metabolic
processes (eg, photosynthesis and respiration). Understanding such divergence is …