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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Larval feeding and growth rate of the stream cranefly Tipula abdominalis in gradients of temperature and nutrition
Vannote, R.L., and B.W. Sweeney. 1985. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 137:119–128.
Influence of food quality and temperature on life history characteristics of the parthenogenetic mayfly Cloeon triangulifer
Sweeney, B. W., and R. L. Vannote. 1984. Freshwater Biology 14:621–630.
Factors influencing life history patterns of aquatic insects
Sweeney, B.W. 1984. Pages 56–100 in V.H. Resh and D. Rosenberg (editors). Ecology of aquatic insects. Praeger Scientific Publishers, New York, New York.
Population synchrony in mayflies: a predator satiation hypothesis
Sweeney, B.W., and R.L. Vannote. 1982. Evolution 36:810–821.
Ephemerella mayflies of White Clay Creek: bioenergetic and ecological relationships among six coexisting species
Sweeney, B.W., and R.L. Vannote. 1981. Ecology 62:1353–1369.
Life history, developmental processes, and energetics of the burrowing mayfly Dolania americana
Harvey R.S., R.L. Vannote, and B.W. Sweeney. 1980. Pages 211–230 in J.F. Flannagan and K.E. Marshall (editors). Advances in Ephemeroptera biology. Springer, Boston, Massachusetts.