Investigators explore how the quality of organic molecules changes with distance downstream and how those changes influence the composition of the communities of streambed microbes using that food resource. The research goals include advancing knowledge of stream ecosystems across drainage networks and forging a broad model of stream ecosystems in the global carbon cycle.
Read more in The Magic of Revealing the Mysteries of Metaecosystems
Funded by: National Science Foundation DEB 1120717
Principal Investigators
- 2016: Louis A. Kaplan, Jinjun Kan, Tara Muenz, and Jennifer J. Mosher; Robert H. Findlay (University of Alabama)
- 2015: Louis A. Kaplan, Jinjun Kan, Susan E. Gill, Tara Muenz, and Jennifer J. Mosher; Robert H. Findlay (University of Alabama)
- 2014: Louis A. Kaplan, principal investigator; Susan E. Gill, and Jennifer J. Mosher; Robert H. Findlay (University of Alabama), co-principal investigators
- 2011–2013: Louis A. Kaplan
Collaborators
- 2015–2016: David C. Richardson (SUNY New Paltz)
- 2011–14: Jinjun Kan, Susan E. Gill, and Jennifer J. Mosher; Robert H. Findlay (University of Alabama); David C. Richardson (SUNY New Paltz)
Project Years: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
