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Synergistic water quality and soil organic carbon sequestration benefits of winter cover crops
Water column nitrogen removal during storms in a low-order watershed
Freshwater salinization: Saltier rivers are a growing concern
Advancing freshwater science with sensor data collected by community scientists
Deep metagenomic sequencing unveils novel SAR202 lineages and their vertical adaptation in the ocean
To achieve the Clean Water Act’s goals, prioritize upstream ecology
Variation in freshwater insect osmoregulatory traits: A comparative approach
Riparian groundwater nitrogen (N) isotopes reveal human imprints of dams and road salt salinization
Delaware River Watershed Initiative Pollution Assessment: Stage 2 Project Report
Depth shapes microbiome assembly and network stability in the Mariana Trench
Watershed sediment cannot offset sea level rise in most U.S. tidal wetlands
A new metric for sunlight exposure in rivers, lakes, and oceans
Facilitation strength across environmental and beneficiary trait gradients in stream communities
Mill dams impact microbiome structure and depth distribution in riparian sediments
Hydrologic implications of projected changes in rain-on-snow melt for Great Lakes Basin watersheds
Atlantic Coast rivers of the northeastern United States
Influence of relict milldams on riparian sediment biogeochemistry
Saturated, suffocated, and salty: human legacies produce hot spots of nitrogen in riparian zones
Respiration regimes in rivers: partitioning source-specific respiration from metabolism time series
Stream nitrogen uptake associated with suspended sediments: a microcosm study
Convergence of biofilm successional trajectories initiated during contrasting seasons
A global synthesis of human impacts on the multifunctionality of streams and rivers
Biophysical heterogeneity, hydrologic connectivity, and productivity of a montane floodplain forest
Deciphering the origin of riverine phytoplankton using in situ chlorophyll sensors
Delaware River Watershed Initiative Pollution Assessment: Stage 1 Project Report
Spatial variability in streambed microbial community structure across two watersheds
A case study of the effects of a school outdoor learning initiative — Spring 2021
Urbanization pressures alter tree rhizosphere microbiomes
Elucidating stream bacteria utilizing terrestrial dissolved organic matter
Effect of decreasing biological lability on dissolved organic matter dynamics in streams
Swimming through the urban heat island: can thermal mitigation practices reduce the stress?
Streambank legacy sediments in surface waters: phosphorus sources or sinks?
Space colonization by branching trachea explains the morphospace of a simple respiratory organ
Widespread cryptic viral infections in lotic biofilms
Spatial heterogeneity in water velocity drives leaf litter dynamics in streams
Niche partitioning of microbial communities in riverine floodplains
Mechanisms of organic matter export in estuaries with contrasting carbon sources
Why some mayfly adults are older and larger: photoperiodic induction of larval quiescence
Teaching Environmental Sustainability – Model My Watershed: curriculum and teacher guide
Sampling aquatic insects – collection devices, statistical considerations, and rearing procedures
Light exposure along particle flowpaths in large rivers
Photodegradation disproportionately impacts biodegradation of semi‐labile DOM in streams
Denitrification and anammox: understanding nitrogen loss from Yangtze Estuary to the East China Sea
Return on environment: the economic value of protected open space in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Essay: making the most of recent advances in freshwater mussel propagation and restoration
Dissolved organic carbon concentrations in White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania, 1977-2017
Building a more scientifically informed community in the Delaware River Basin
Low-cost, open-source, and low-power: but what to do with the data?
Understanding freshwater resource problems
A digital mayfly swarm is emerging
Bison and cattle grazing impacts on grassland stream morphology in the Flint Hills of Kansas
Agricultural policy and practice in the Chesapeake and Delaware Watersheds
Data and models help define effective strategies in the Delaware River Watershed Initiative
Basinwide programs in the Chesapeake and Delaware: similar nature, distinct strategies
Topographic variation in soil erosion and accumulation determined with meteoric 10Be
An interdisciplinary approach to water management
Storm events restructured bacterial community and their biogeochemical potentials
Impacts of stream riparian buffer land use on water temperature and food availability for fish
Impacts of hydrous manganese oxide on the retention and lability of dissolved organic matter
Projected climate change impacts on hydrologic flow regimes in the Great Plains of Kansas
Why adult mayflies of Cloeon dipterum (Ephemeroptera:Baetidae) become smaller as temperature warms
Influence of experimental extreme water pulses on greenhouse gas emissions from soils
Conservation Reserve Program mitigates grassland loss in the lesser prairie-chicken range of Kansas
Children’s use of iPads in outdoor environmental education programs
Variation of organic matter quantity and quality in streams at Critical Zone Observatory watersheds
Dissolved organic matter in stream ecosystems: forms, functions, and fluxes of watershed tea
A snapshot on spatial and vertical distribution of bacterial communities in the Eastern Indian Ocean
Mating behavior of Phyllopalpus pulchellus Uhler (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae)
Bioaccumulation dynamics of arsenate at the base of aquatic food webs
River conservation, restoration, and preservation: rewarding private behavior to enhance the commons
Observations Data Model 2: a community information model for spatially discrete Earth observations
Resilience of aquatic net-spinning caddisfly silk structures to common global stressors
Spider fauna of three geographically isolated wetland types in southwestern Georgia
Opinion: endogenizing culture in sustainability science research and policy
Consumption of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon by stream microorganisms
The Role of Critical Zone Observatories in Critical Zone Science
Elevated major ion concentrations inhibit larval mayfly growth and development
The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: controlling factors of streams across broad biogeographic scales
Improved performance of the PacBio SMRT technology for 16S rDNA sequencing
Science, not politics, should guide Clean Water Act clarification
Fragmentation and drying ratchet down Great Plains stream fish diversity
A stressful shortness of breath: molting disrupts breathing in the mayfly Cloeon dipterum
Influence of riparian and watershed alterations on sandbars in a Great Plains river
Systematics and acoustics of North American Anaxipha (Gryllidae: Trigonidiinae)
Community-developed geoscience cyberinfrastructure
No evidence of aquatic priming effects in hyporheic zone microcosms
Does DNA barcoding improve performance of traditional stream bioassessment metrics?
A variable source area for groundwater evapotranspiration: impacts on modeling stream flow
Soil organic matter stability in organo-mineral complexes as a function of increasing C loading
Open data: crediting a culture of cooperation
Solute-specific scaling of inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake in streams
Electricity generation from microbial fuel cell using microorganisms as catalyst in cathode
Yellowstone Lake Nanoarchaeota
Blazing and grazing: influences of fire and bison on tallgrass prairie stream water quality
Biological lability of dissolved organic carbon in stream water and contributing terrestrial sources
Ecosystem metabolism and nutrient uptake in Peruvian headwater streams
Present research frontiers in geomorphology
Adaptation of soil microbes during establishment of microbial fuel cell consortium fed with lactate
The scientific names of two common Florida crickets (Orthoptera, Gryllidae)
Abandoned coal mine drainage and its remediation: impacts on stream ecosystem structure and function
Slimy leaves for clean streams: the leaf pack experiment
Dietary (periphyton) and aqueous Zn bioaccumulation dynamics in the mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer
Estimation of dissolved organic carbon contribution from hillslope soils to a headwater stream
Biological lability of streamwater fluorescent dissolved organic matter
Taxonomic certification versus the scientific method: a rebuttal of Rogers (2012)
Electricity generation from a floating marine microbial fuel cell
A DNA barcode library for North American Ephemeroptera: Progress and prospects
An initial investigation into the organic matter biogeochemistry of the Congo River
Scaling the gas transfer velocity and hydraulic geometry in streams and small rivers
Factors controlling water-column respiration in rivers of the central and southwestern Amazon Basin
Gryllus mandevillus (Orthoptera: Gryllidae) is a valid field cricket species
Sustained losses of bioavailable nitrogen from montane tropical forests
Marine bacterial community response to inorganic and organic amendments in marine sediments
Recent perspectives on temporary river ecology
The initial design of data sharing infrastructure for the Critical Zone Observatory
A rapid fingerprinting approach to distinguish between closely related strains of Shewanella
Optimizing the indirect extraction of prokaryotic DNA from soils
Yellowstone Lake: high energy geochemistry and rich bacterial diversity
Eating local: influences of habitat on the diet of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)
No teacher left inside: preparing a new generation of teachers
Summer-winter transitions in Antarctic ponds II: biological responses
Summer-winter transitions in Antarctic ponds I: the physical environment
Improving biogeochemical knowledge through technological innovation
Riverine coupling of biogeochemical cycles between land, oceans, and atmosphere
The Crabby Creek initiative: building and sustaining an interdisciplinary community partnership
A preliminary water quality study of the Rio Sierpe and its tributaries (Costa Rica)
Water quality functions of a 15-year-old riparian forest buffer system
Scientific and educational aspects of water quality and stream health in Eastern Pennsylvania
Aquatic invertebrate community structure along an intermittence gradient: Selwyn River, New Zealand
Mayfly communities in two neotropical lowland forests
Emerging concepts in temporary-river ecology
Nutrient uptake and mineralization during leaf decay in streams
Influence of tree shelters on seedling success in an afforested riparian zone
Mercury(II) bioaccumulation and antioxidant physiology in four aquatic insects
Water quality in White Clay Creek Watershed from 1991 to 2008
Untangling the complex issue of dissolved organic carbon uptake: a stable isotope approach
Biome-level biogeography in streambed microbiota
Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks
Protecting headwaters: the scientific basis for safeguarding stream and river ecosystems
Fractionation of lignin during leaching and sorption and implications for organic matter “freshness”
Primary productivity and community respiration
Resurrecting the in-stream side of riparian forests
How planting method, weed abatement, and herbivory affect afforestation success
Stream insect occupancy-frequency patterns and metapopulation structure
Primary productivity in receiving reservoirs: links to influent streams
Organic matter transport in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds
Uptake of nutrients and organic C in streams in New York City drinking-water-supply watersheds
Molecular tracers of soot and sewage contamination in streams supplying New York City drinking water
Landscape template of New York City’s drinking-water-supply watersheds
Relating major ions and nutrients to watershed conditions across a mixed-use, water-supply watershed
Enhanced source-water monitoring for New York City: summary and perspective
Long-term studies of aquatic invertebrates: frequency, duration, and ecological significance
Recurring seasonal dynamics of microbial communities in stream habitats
Atlantic coast rivers of the northeastern United States
Deposition, benthic residence, and resuspension of fine organic particles in a mountain stream
Synthesis of 13C-labeled tracer for stream DOC: labeling tulip poplar carbon with 13CO2
Young organic matter as a source of carbon dioxide outgassing from Amazonian rivers
Lateral organization of aquatic invertebrates along the continuum of a braided-floodplain river
Scientific underpinnings of sediment quality guidelines
The role of organic matter in structuring microbial communities
Techniques for measuring biodegradable organic matter
Riparian deforestation, stream narrowing, and loss of stream ecosystem services
Riverine organic matter composition as a function of land use changes, southwest Amazon
Riparian forest restoration: why each site needs an ecological prescription
Assessment of TOC analytical accuracy
Contributions of microbial biofilms to ecosystem processes in stream mesocosms
Sources and distribution of organic carbon and nitrogen in the Tagliamento River, Italy
Where rivers are born: the scientific imperative for defending small streams and wetlands
Simultaneous analyses of neutral carbohydrates and amino sugars in freshwaters with HPLC-PAD
Effects of current velocity on the nascent architecture of stream microbial biofilms
The Tagliamento River: a model ecosystem of European importance
Habitat structure and Trichoptera diversity in two headwater flood plains, N.E. Italy
Dietary and stable isotope (δ 13C, δ 15N) analyses in alpine stream insects
Coupling of hydrodynamical, biological, and geochemical processes in streambeds
Dissolved organic carbon measurement using a modified high temperature DOC analyzer
Dietary and stable isotope (δ 13C, δ 15N) analyses in alpine Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera
Aquatic habitat dynamics along a braided alpine river ecosystem (Tagliamento River, Northeast Italy)
The role of monomers in stream ecosystem metabolism
Riparian forest restoration: increasing success by reducing plant competition and herbivory
Monitoring dissolved organic carbon in surface and drinking waters
The influence of particle size on the deposition of seston in streams
Physical factors influencing fine organic particle transport and deposition in streams
Improved analysis of dissolved carbohydrates in stream water
Molecular tracers of organic matter sources to surface water resources
Comparison of three TOC methodologies
The effect of formalin and Lugol’s iodine solution on protozoal cell volume
Courtship role reversal and deceptive signals in the long-tailed dance fly, Rhamphomyia longicauda
Surface and subsurface dissolved organic carbon
Grazing of protozoa, bacteria, and diatoms by meiofauna in lotic epibenthic communities
Review of tropical Asian streams: Zoobenthos, ecology and conservation by D. Dudgeon
The role of microorganisms in the ecological connectivity of running waters
Structure and function of stream biota
Water quality functions of riparian forest buffer systems in the Chesapeake Bay Watersheds
Turbulent transport of suspended particles and dispersing benthic organisms: how long to hit bottom?
Organic matter dynamics in White Clay Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
Dissolved carbohydrates in streamwater determined by HPLC and pulsed amperometric detection
Chemical composition of biodegradable dissolved organic matter in streamwater
Biology of Gumaga nigricula (McL.) in a northern California stream
An evaluation of techniques for measuring periphyton metabolism in chambers
Measurement of streamwater biodegradable dissolved organic carbon with a plug-flow bioreactor
Water quality functions of riparian forest buffer systems in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Research in tropical streams and rivers: introduction to a series of papers
Present status and future directions of tropical stream research
Concentrations and export of solutes from six mountain streams in northwestern Costa Rica
Egg and larval development times for 35 species of tropical stream insects from Costa Rica
The larvae of Eastern North American Eurylophella Tiensuu (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae)
A model for seasonal synchrony in stream mayflies
A survey of BOM in US drinking waters
Transport dynamics of fine particulate organic matter in two Idaho streams
Development of a rapid assimilable organic carbon method for water
Rapid assessment approaches in benthic macroinvertebrate biomonitoring studies
Sources and biogeochemistry of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon entering streams
Cycles and spirals of nutrients
Evaluation of utility laboratory personnel performance of a standardized AOC technique
Climate change and the life histories and biogeography of aquatic insects in eastern North America
Periodicity of mate attraction and flight activity of adult caddisflies (Trichoptera)
Use of 14C label to study fine particulate organic matter dynamics in flowing water
Potential for protozoan grazing of bacteria in streambed sediments
Concepts and methods for assessing solute dynamics in stream ecosystems
Nutrients for bacterial growth in drinking water: bioassay evaluation
Science in pictures: the mating of tree crickets
Protein relationships among titmice (Parus)
Densities of benthic protozoa and nematodes in a piedmont stream
Genetic variation in stream mayfly (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) populations in eastern North America
Geographic parthenogenesis in the stream mayfly Eurylophella funeralis in eastern North America
Phosphorus spiralling in rivers and river-reservoir systems: implications of a model
Growth and production of a stream stonefly
Acclimation of stream-bed heterotrophic microflora: metabolic responses to dissolved organic matter
Phosphorus spiralling in a woodland stream: seasonal variations
Adenylate energy charge in streambed sediments
Benthic bacterial biomass supported by streamwater dissolved organic matter
Factors influencing life history patterns of aquatic insects
In situ measures of dissolved organic carbon flux in a rural stream
Microbial heterotrophic utilization of dissolved organic matter in a piedmont stream
Diel fluctuations of DOC generated by algae in a piedmont stream
Population synchrony in mayflies: a predator satiation hypothesis
Patterns of dissolved organic carbon in transport
Life history, developmental processes, and energetics of the burrowing mayfly Dolania americana
Biology, ecophysiology, and energetics of Sigara alternata (Say) in White Clay Creek
Bioenergetic and developmental response of a mayfly to thermal variation
A diurnally fluctuating thermal system for studying the effect of temperature on aquatic organisms