Water temperature is one of the main abiotic factors affecting the structure and functioning of
aquatic ecosystems and its alteration can have important effects on biological communities …

Streams and rivers provide important services to humans, and therefore, their ecological
integrity should be a societal goal. Although ecological integrity encompasses structural and …

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a
textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference source for …

Methods in Stream Ecology provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in
stream ecology that are ideal for teaching or conducting research. This two part new edition …

Cascading trophic interactions are important in many freshwater pelagic food webs, but their
importance in more complex, omnivore—rich littoral—zone food webs is less well known …

We conducted two experiments to determine the relative effects of herbivory and nutrients on
an algal community in Walker Branch, a stream having effectively two trophic levels: primary …

The urbanization of agricultural lands is currently one of the dominant patterns of land use
change in developed countries. In the United States and parts of Europe, this has led to the …

In this paper we suggest a conceptual model for the evaluation of periphyton communities in
unshaded temperate streams based on the primary habitat variables of flood disturbance …

This review summarizes the state of knowledge regarding herbivory in stream ecosystems
by quantitatively analyzing the results of 89 experimental studies published between 1972 …

The independent and interactive effects of nutrient concentration and epiphyte grazers on
epiphyte biomass and macrophyte growth and production were examined in Zostera marina …