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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Electrophoretic study of Eastern North American Eurylophella (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) with the discovery of morphologically cryptic species
Funk, D.H., B.W. Sweeney, and R.L. Vannote. 1988. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 81(2):174–186.
Genetic variation in stream mayfly (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) populations in eastern North America
Sweeney. B.W., D.H. Funk, and R.L. Vannote. 1987. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 80:600–612.
Geographic parthenogenesis in the stream mayfly Eurylophella funeralis in eastern North America
Sweeney, B.W., and R.L. Vannote. 1987. Holarctic Ecology 10:52–59.
Population genetics of the burrowing mayfly Dolania americana: geographic variation and the presence of a cryptic species
Sweeney. B.W., and D.H. Funk. 1987. Aquatic Insects 13:1–11.
Population genetic structure of two mayflies (Ephemerella subvaria, Eurylophella verisimilis) in the Delaware River drainage basin
Sweeney, B.W., D.H. Funk, and R.L. Vannote. 1986. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 5(4):253-262.
