The number of anthropogenic compounds that occur in aquatic ecosystems today is in the
thousands, many at trace concentrations. One group of compounds that has captured the …

Quantifying the role that freshwater ecosystems play in the global carbon cycle requires
accurate measurement and scaling of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal in river …

Rivers are a major source of microplastic particles (< 5 mm) to oceans, but empirical
measurements of microplastic movement in freshwater ecosystems are rare. The hard …

While environmental DNA (eDNA) is now being regularly used to detect rare and elusive
species, detection in lotic environments comes with a caveat: The species being detected is …

Nutrient cycling is a key process linking organisms in ecosystems. This is especially
apparent in stream environments in which nutrients are taken up readily and cycled through …

Pharmaceutical and personal care products are ubiquitous in surface waters but their effects
on aquatic biofilms and associated ecosystem properties are not well understood. We …

Agriculture is a major contributor of non‐point source pollution to surface waters in the
midwestern United States, resulting in eutrophication of freshwater aquatic ecosystems and …

Consumer‐mediated nutrient supply is increasingly recognized as an important functional
process in many ecosystems. Yet, experimentation at relevant spatial and temporal scales is …

Nitrogen (N) pollution of freshwater, estuarine and marine ecosystems is widespread and
has numerous environmental and economic impacts. A portion of this excess N comes from …

Nutrient diffusing substrata were used to determine the influence of inorganic nitrogen (N)
and phosphorus (P) availability on community respiration (CR), gross primary production …