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List of works by William H. McDowell

A Comparison of Wet Deposition Collectors at a Coastal Rural Site

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A case study characterizing animal fecal sources in surface water using a mitochondrial DNA marker

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A general pattern of trade-offs between ecosystem resistance and resilience to tropical cyclones

scientific article published on 4 March 2022

A longer vernal window: the role of winter coldness and snowpack in driving spring transitions and lags

scientific article

A new framework for selecting environmental surrogates

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An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social–ecological research

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Analysis of Nitrogen Dynamics in the Lye Brook Wilderness Area, Vermont, USA

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Autumnal Processing of Dissolved Organic Matter in a Small Woodland Stream Ecosystem

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Baseflow physical characteristics differ at multiple spatial scales in stream networks across diverse biomes

scientific article published on 13 October 2015

Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

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Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Two Tropical Forests: Ecosystem-Level Patterns and Effects of Nitrogen Fertilization

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C and N dynamics in the riparian and hyporheic zones of a tropical stream, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico

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Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling rates in streams

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Characterizing nitrogen dynamics, retention and transport in a tropical rainforest stream using an in situ 15N addition

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Chemical constituents in clouds and rainwater in the Puerto Rican rainforest: Potential sources and seasonal drivers

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Chemistry of the heavily urbanized Bagmati River system in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: export of organic matter, nutrients, major ions, silica, and metals

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Consequence of altered nitrogen cycles in the coupled human and ecological system under changing climate: The need for long-term and site-based research

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Control of Nitrogen Export from Watersheds by Headwater Streams

scientific article published in Science

Controls on major solutes within the drainage network of a rapidly weathering tropical watershed

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Critical zone structure controls concentration-discharge relationships and solute generation in forested tropical montane watersheds

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DOM in the long arc of environmental science: looking back and thinking ahead

scientific article published in 2022

Decadal trends reveal recent acceleration in the rate of recovery from acidification in the northeastern U.S.

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Denitrification and total nitrate uptake in streams of a tropical landscape

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Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth

scholarly article by Susan L. Brantley et al published 18 December 2017 in Earth Surface Dynamics

Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth

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Dissolved Organic Matter: Linking Soils and Aquatic Systems

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Dissolved organic carbon in headwater streams and riparian soil organic carbon along an altitudinal gradient in the Wuyi Mountains, China

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Dissolved organic carbon uptake in streams: A review and assessment of reach-scale measurements

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Dissolved organic matter in soils—future directions and unanswered questions

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

Dissolved organic nitrogen budgets for upland, forested ecosystems in New England

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Do small-scale exclosure/enclosure experiments predict the effects of large-scale extirpation of freshwater migratory fauna?

scientific article published on 6 July 2006

Does Anthropogenic Nitrogen Enrichment Increase Organic Nitrogen Concentrations in Runoff from Forested and Human-dominated Watersheds?

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Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Ecosystem metabolism and nutrient uptake in an urban, piped headwater stream

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Ecosystem response to 15 years of chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest LTER, Massachusetts, USA

scientific article (publication date: July 2004)

Effects of Chronic Nitrogen Amendments on Production of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in Forest Soils

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Effects of chronic nitrogen amendment on dissolved organic matter and inorganic nitrogen in soil solution

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Effects of headwater wetlands on dissolved nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon concentrations in a suburban New Hampshire watershed

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Effects of hurricane disturbance on stream water concentrations and fluxes in eight tropical forest watersheds of the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

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Effects of nitrogen additions on above- and belowground carbon dynamics in two tropical forests

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Effects of sewage effluents on water quality in tropical streams

scientific article published on November 2014

Effects of suburbanization on foodweb stoichiometry of detritus-based streams

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Elemental Dynamics in Streams

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Elevating the biogeosciences within environmental research networks

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Evolution of Chemistry along the Bagmati Drainage Network in Kathmandu Valley

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Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital-based food webs: a global meta-analysis from streams and rivers

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Export of Nutrients and Major Ions from Caribbean Catchments

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FRESHWATER SHRIMP EFFECTS ON DETRITAL PROCESSING AND NUTRIENTS IN A TROPICAL HEADWATER STREAM

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Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams - an inter-biome perspective

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Fire severity, time since fire, and site-level characteristics influence streamwater chemistry at baseflow conditions in catchments of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

scientific article published in 2019

Give and Take: A Watershed Acid Rain Mitigation Experiment Increases Baseflow Nitrogen Retention but Increases Stormflow Nitrogen Export

Global carbon dioxide efflux from rivers enhanced by high nocturnal emissions

Gradients of Anthropogenic Nutrient Enrichment Alter N Composition and DOM Stoichiometry in Freshwater Ecosystems

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High-Frequency Concurrent Measurements in Watershed and Impaired Estuary Reveal Coupled DOC and Decoupled Nitrate Dynamics

scientific article published in 2021

Hurricanes, people, and riparian zones: controls on nutrient losses from forested Caribbean watersheds

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Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks ⬇️

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Identifying Controls on Nitrate Sources and Flowpaths in a Forested Catchment Using a Hydropedological Framework

scientific article published in 2022

Impact of Long-Range Transported African Dust on Cloud Water Chemistry at a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest in Northeastern Puerto Rico

Improving automated phosphorus measurements in freshwater: an analytical approach to eliminating silica interference

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Increased dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in Central European streams is driven by reductions in ionic strength rather than climate change or decreasing acidity

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Indirect upstream effects of dams: consequences of migratory consumer extirpation in Puerto Rico

scientific article published on February 2006

Influence of land use changes on water chemistry in streams in the State of São Paulo, southeast Brazil.

scientific article published in December 2012

Influence of sea salt aerosols and long range transport on precipitation chemistry at El Verde, Puerto Rico

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Influence of watershed suburbanization on leaf litter decomposition and microbial activity

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Interactions between lithology and biology drive the long-term response of stream chemistry to major hurricanes in a tropical landscape

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Interbasin flow of geothermally modified ground water stabilizes stream exports of biologically important solutes against variation in precipitation

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Internal nutrient fluxes in a Puerto Rican rain forest

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Knowledge to serve the city: insights from an emerging knowledge-action network to address vulnerability and sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico ⬇️

scholarly article

LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers

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Limited effects of suburbanization on the genetic structure of an abundant vernal pool-breeding amphibian

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Linking Foliar Chemistry to Forest Floor Solid and Solution Phase Organic C and N in Picea abies [L.] Karst Stands in Northern Bohemia

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Linking soil phosphorus with forest litterfall resistance and resilience to cyclone disturbance: A pantropical meta‐analysis

scientific article published in 2022

Linking soils and streams: Response of soil solution chemistry to simulated hurricane disturbance mirrors stream chemistry following a severe hurricane

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Long-Term Nitrogen Additions and Nitrogen Saturation in Two Temperate Forests

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Long-Term Trends in Stream Nitrate Concentrations and Losses Across Watersheds Undergoing Recovery from Acidification in the Czech Republic

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Long-term patterns and short-term dynamics of stream solutes and suspended sediment in a rapidly weathering tropical watershed

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Long-term trends of changes in pine and oak foliar nitrogen metabolism in response to chronic nitrogen amendments at Harvard Forest, MA.

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Luquillo Experimental Forest: Catchment science in the montane tropics

scientific article published in 2021

Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

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Merging aquatic and terrestrial perspectives of nutrient biogeochemistry

scientific article published on 23 September 2003

Microbial immobilization and mineralization of dissolved organic nitrogen from forest floors

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Moisture and substrate availability constrain soil trace gas fluxes in an eastern Amazonian regrowth forest

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Multiyear Trends in Solute Concentrations and Fluxes From a Suburban Watershed: Evaluating Effects of 100-Year Flood Events

scientific article published in 2018

N uptake as a function of concentration in streams

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NEON and STREON: opportunities and challenges for the aquatic sciences

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New perspectives in ecotoxicology

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Nitrate decline unlikely to have triggered release of dissolved organic carbon and phosphate to streams.

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification

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Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake

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Nitrification increases nitrogen export from a tropical river network

scientific article published in 2017

Nitrogen Saturation in Temperate Forest Ecosystems

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Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets for a tropical watershed impacted by agricultural land use: Guayas, Ecuador

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Nitrogen removal rates in a frigid high-altitude river estimated by measuring dissolved N and NO

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Nitrogen transformations in a small mountain stream

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Nitrogen yields from undisturbed watersheds in the Americas

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Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

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Novel ecosystems in the Anthropocene: a revision of the novel ecosystem concept for pragmatic applications

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Nutrient export and elemental stoichiometry in an urban tropical river

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

Nutrient uptake along a fire gradient in boreal streams of Central Siberia

Origin, Composition, and Flux of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Hubbard Brook Valley

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Patterns of streamwater acidity in Lye Brook Wilderness, Vermont, USA.

scientific article published in August 2002

Persistent effects of acidification on stream ecosystem structure and function

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Qualitative differences in headwater stream dissolved organic matter and riparian water-extractable soil organic matter under four different vegetation types along an altitudinal gradient in the Wuyi Mountains of China

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Quantifying the frequency of synchronous carbon and nitrogen export to the river network

scientific article published in 2021

Quantifying the production of dissolved organic nitrogen in headwater streams using15N tracer additions

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Reducing bias and quantifying uncertainty in watershed flux estimates: the R package loadflex

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Remote sensing of foliar nitrogen in cultivated grasslands of human dominated landscapes

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Resolving a paradox-high mercury deposition, but low bioaccumulation in northeastern Puerto Rico

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Riparian nitrogen dynamics in two geomorphologically distinct tropical rain forest watersheds: nitrous oxide fluxes

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Seasonal observations of surface waters in two Gulf of Maine estuary-plume systems: Relationships between watershed attributes, optical measurements and surface pCO2

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Seasonal variation of tropical precipitation chemistry: La Selva, Costa Rica

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Shifting stoichiometry: Long-term trends in stream-dissolved organic matter reveal altered C:N ratios due to history of atmospheric acid deposition

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Short-Term Disappearance of Foliar Litter in Three Species Before and After a Hurricane1

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Simplified Version of the Ampoule–Persulfate Method for Determination of Dissolved Organic Carbon

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Soil microbial biomass and activity in tropical riparian forests

Solute deposition from cloud water to the canopy of a puerto rican montane forest

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Sources and Molecular Weight of "Dissolved" Organic Carbon in an Oligotrophic Lake

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Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Atmospheric Deposition of Dissolved Organic Carbon

scientific article published in 2022

Spectral analysis of coniferous foliage and possible links to soil chemistry: are spectral chlorophyll indices related to forest floor dissolved organic C and N?

scientific article published on 8 January 2008

Spectroscopic characterization of hot-water extractable organic matter from soils under four different vegetation types along an elevation gradient in the Wuyi Mountains

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Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

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Stream ecology

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Stream geochemistry, chemical weathering and CO2 consumption potential of andesitic terrains, Dominica, Lesser Antilles

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Summary of Ecosystem-Level Effects of Caribbean Hurricanes

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Surprises and Insights from Long-Term Aquatic Data Sets and Experiments

scientific article published in August 2012

The Long-term Effects of Disturbance on Organic and Inorganic Nitrogen Export in the White Mountains, New Hampshire

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The biogeochemical influences of NO3−, dissolved O2, and dissolved organic C on stream NO3− uptake

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The effect of permafrost on stream biogeochemistry: A case study of two streams in the Alaskan (U.S.A.) taiga

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The globalization of N deposition: ecosystem consequences in tropical environments

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The importance of nutrient pulses in tropical forests

scientific article published on October 1994

The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity

scientific article published on 06 October 2017

The origin, composition and rates of organic nitrogen deposition: A missing piece of the nitrogen cycle?

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The response of heterotrophic activity and carbon cycling to nitrogen additions and warming in two tropical soils

Thinking outside the channel: modeling nitrogen cycling in networked river ecosystems

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Total carbon analysis may overestimate organic carbon content of fresh waters in the presence of high dissolved inorganic carbon

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Trace metals in Northern New England streams: Evaluating the role of road salt across broad spatial scales with synoptic snapshots

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Tracking evolution of urban biogeochemical cycles: past, present, and future

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Tropical river suspended sediment and solute dynamics in storms during an extreme drought

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Two roles for ecological surrogacy: Indicator surrogates and management surrogates

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Understanding Dissolved Organic Matter Biogeochemistry Through In Situ Nutrient Manipulations in Stream Ecosystems

scientific article published on 29 October 2016

Upstream Transport of Mirex by Migrating Salmonids

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Urban Evolution: The Role of Water

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Urban influences on the nitrogen cycle in Puerto Rico

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Using In-Situ Optical Sensors to Understand the Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter Across a Stream Network

scientific article published in 2018

Variation of organic matter quantity and quality in streams at Critical Zone Observatory watersheds

Vertical transport of dissolved organic C and N under long-term N amendments in pine and hardwood forests

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Watershed studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Building on a long legacy of research with new approaches and sources of data

scientific article published in 2021

When Wet Gets Wetter: Decoupling of Moisture, Redox Biogeochemistry, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in a Humid Tropical Forest Soil

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When the rainforest dries: Drought effects on a montane tropical stream ecosystem in Puerto Rico

‘Acid rain’, dissolved aluminum and chemical weathering at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire

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