Phosphorus mitigation to control river eutrophication: murky waters, inconvenient truths, and “postnormal” science

HP Jarvie, AN Sharpley, PJA Withers… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This commentary examines an “inconvenient truth” that phosphorus (P)‐based nutrient
mitigation, long regarded as the key tool in eutrophication management, in many cases has …

Incorporating ecogeomorphic feedbacks to better understand resiliency in streams: A review and directions forward

CL Atkinson, DC Allen, L Davis, ZL Nickerson - Geomorphology, 2018 - Elsevier
Decades of interdisciplinary research show river form and function depends on interactions
between the living and nonliving world, but a dominant paradigm underlying ecogeomorphic …

Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem

AM Veach, JC Stegen, SP Brown, WK Dodds… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biofilms represent a metabolically active and structurally complex component of freshwater
ecosystems. Ephemeral prairie streams are hydrologically harsh and prone to frequent …

Fundamental spatial and temporal disconnections in the hydrology of an intermittent prairie headwater network

KH Costigan, MD Daniels, WK Dodds - Journal of Hydrology, 2015 - Elsevier
We characterize the hydrology of intermittent prairie headwater streams of the Konza Prairie
Biological Station (Konza) located in northeastern Kansas, USA. Flow records from four …

[KNYGA][B] Stream fish community dynamics: A critical synthesis

WJ Matthews, E Marsh-Matthews - 2017 - books.google.com
The most comprehensive synthesis of stream fish community research ever produced.
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL Ecologists have …

Animal effects on dissolved organic carbon bioavailability in an algal controlled ecosystem

TB Parr, CC Vaughn, KB Gido - Freshwater Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Animals exert both direct and indirect controls over elemental cycles, linking primary
producer‐based (green) and decomposer‐based (brown) food webs through top‐down …

Control of periphyton standing crop in an Atlantic Forest stream: the relative roles of nutrients, grazers and predators

C Lourenço‐Amorim, V Neres‐Lima… - Freshwater …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Periphytic algae are an important source of energy fuelling stream food webs. Periphytic
algal biomass can be controlled by bottom‐up and top‐down forces, but there are few …

Drought and nutrient pollution produce multiple interactive effects in stream ecosystems

RJ Fournier, DD Magoulick - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Drought and nutrient pollution can affect the dynamics of stream ecosystems in diverse
ways. While the individual effects of both stressors are broadly examined in the literature, we …

Context dependency of top-down and bottom-up effects in a Northern Australian tropical river

EA Garcia, SA Townsend… - Freshwater Science, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Top-down and bottom-up forces (consumer and resource limitation, respectively) influence
biomass of primary producers and primary consumers in natural food webs. Few …

Limiting nutrients drive mountain stream ecosystem processes along an elevation gradient

WS Beck, AT Rugenski, NLR Poff - Freshwater Science, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Concentrations of N and P are important drivers of stream ecosystem processes, such as
primary production and invertebrate nutrient recycling. However, studies have rarely …