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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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.
Growth and production of a stream stonefly
Sweeney, B.W., and R.L. Vannote. 1986. Ecology 67:1396–1410.
Effects of temperature and food quality on growth and development of a mayfly, Leptophlebia intermedia
Sweeney, B.W., R.L. Vannote, and P.J. Dodds. 1986. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:12–18.
The relative importance of temperature and diet to larval development and adult size of the winter stonefly Soyedina carolinensis (Plecoptera: Nemouridae)
Sweeney, B.W., R.L. Vannote, and P.J. Dodds. 1986. Freshwater Biology 16:39–48.
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.
