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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Biology of Gumaga nigricula (McL.) in a northern California stream
Resh, V.H., J.R. Wood, E.A. Bergey, J.W. Feminella, J.K. Jackson, and E.P. McElravy. 1997. Pages 401–410 in Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Trichoptera. Ohio Biological Survey.
Organochlorine pesticides in stream mayflies and terrestrial vegetation of undisturbed tropical catchments exposed to long-range atmospheric transport
Standley, L.J., and B.W. Sweeney. 1995. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:38–49.
Egg and larval development times for 35 species of tropical stream insects from Costa Rica
Jackson, J.K., and B.W. Sweeney. 1995. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:115–130.
Semivoltinism, seasonal emergence, and adult size variation in a tropical stream mayfly (Euthyplocia hecuba)
Sweeney, B.W., J.K. Jackson, and D.H. Funk. 1995. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14(1):131–146.
Maternal transfer of chlordane and its metabolites to the eggs of a stream mayfly Centroptilum triangulifer
Standley, L.J., B.W. Sweeney, and D.H. Funk. 1994. Environmental Science & Technology 28(12):2105–2111.
The larvae of Eastern North American Eurylophella Tiensuu (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae)
Funk, D.H., and B.W. Sweeney. 1994. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 120(3):209–286.