The Entomology Group studies factors that affect the distribution and abundance of aquatic invertebrates, the functional role of invertebrates in stream and river ecosystems, and how these invertebrate communities respond to human activities in temperate and tropical watersheds.
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Entomology News
UpStream Newsletter, Spring 2000
The Stroud Center, internationally-known for its knowledge of small streams, is now doing a research project on the nation’s largest river, the Mississippi.
Courtship role reversal and deceptive signals in the long-tailed dance fly, Rhamphomyia longicauda
Funk, D.H., and D.W. Tallamy. 2000. Animal Behaviour 59(2):411–421.
Long-term movements of self-marked caddisfly larvae (Trichoptera: Sericostomatidae) in a coastal mountain stream, California, USA
Jackson, J.K., E.P. McElravy, and V.H. Resh. 1999. Freshwater Biology 42(3):525–536.
Review of tropical Asian streams: Zoobenthos, ecology and conservation by D. Dudgeon
Jackson, J.K. 1999. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 18:427–428.
Structure and function of stream biota
Jackson, J.K. 1998. In Stream corridor restoration: principles, processes and practices. Federal Interagency Stream Restoration Working Group, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, PB98-158348LUW.
Morphologically cryptic species confounding ecological studies of the caddisfly genus Gumaga (Sericostomatidae) in northern California
Jackson, J.K., and V.H. Resh. 1998. Aquatic Insects 20(2):69–84.