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List of works by Mark O. Gessner

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Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

scientific article published on 12 December 2005

Diversity meets decomposition

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Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

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Continental-scale effects of nutrient pollution on stream ecosystem functioning.

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Global distribution of a key trophic guild contrasts with common latitudinal diversity patterns.

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Disconnect of microbial structure and function: enzyme activities and bacterial communities in nascent stream corridors.

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

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A global experiment suggests climate warming will not accelerate litter decomposition in streams but might reduce carbon sequestration.

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Temperature oscillation coupled with fungal community shifts can modulate warming effects on litter decomposition

scientific article published in January 2009

Magnitude and variability of process rates in fungal diversity-litter decomposition relationships

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Synthetic chemicals as agents of global change

article by Emily S. Bernhardt et al published 24 January 2017 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Decomposition of diverse litter mixtures in streams

scientific article published in January 2007

Functional leaf traits and biodiversity effects on litter decomposition in a stream

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Proteome analysis of fungal and bacterial involvement in leaf litter decomposition.

scientific article published in May 2010

Benthic bacterial and fungal productivity and carbon turnover in a freshwater marsh

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Invasion of Solidago gigantea in contrasting experimental plant communities: effects on soil microbes, nutrients and plant-soil feedbacks

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Infection paradox: high abundance but low impact of freshwater benthic viruses

scientific article published in July 2006

Global patterns of stream detritivore distribution: implications for biodiversity loss in changing climates

scientific article published in 2011

Silver Nanoparticle Effects on Stream Periphyton During Short-Term Exposures

scientific article published on January 20, 2015

Placing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in context: environmental perturbations and the effects of species richness in a stream field experiment

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Antibiotics as a chemical stressor affecting an aquatic decomposer-detritivore system

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Flow Cytometric Assessment of Bacterial Abundance in Soils, Sediments and Sludge

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

A Perspective on Leaf Litter Breakdown in Streams

scientific article published in 1999

Microbial communities in contrasting freshwater marsh microhabitats

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Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic environments

scientific article published in 2004

The Role of Biodiversity in the Functioning of Freshwater and Marine Benthic Ecosystems

Trophic complexity enhances ecosystem functioning in an aquatic detritus-based model system.

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Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers.

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Chronic Exposure Effects of Silver Nanoparticles on Stream Microbial Decomposer Communities and Ecosystem Functions.

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global study.

scientific article published in April 2016

DECOTAB: a multipurpose standard substrate to assess effects of litter quality on microbial decomposition and invertebrate consumption

article by Andries A. Kampfraath et al published December 2012 in Freshwater Science

No evidence for leaf-trait dissimilarity effects on litter decomposition, fungal decomposers, and nutrient dynamics

scientific article published on February 2015

Experimentally Simulated Global Warming and Nitrogen Enrichment Effects on Microbial Litter Decomposers in a Marsh

scientific article published on December 10, 2010

Stream Ecosystem Functioning in an Agricultural Landscape

scholarly article by Sally Hladyz published in January 2011

Fungal importance extends beyond litter decomposition in experimental early-successional streams

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Ecotoxicologial evaluation of wastewater ozonation based on detritus-detritivore interactions

scientific article published in November 2010

Harmful effects of silver nanoparticles on a complex detrital model system

scientific article published on January 26, 2016

Influence of conidial traits and leaf structure on attachment success of aquatic hyphomycetes on leaf litter

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Leaf-litter breakdown in tropical streams: is variability the norm?

Humic dissolved organic carbon drives oxidative stress and severe fitness impairments in Daphnia.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Thermocline deepening boosts ecosystem metabolism: evidence from a large-scale lake enclosure experiment simulating a summer storm

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Litter decomposition across multiple spatial scales in stream networks

scientific article published on 6 June 2009

Consumer trophic diversity as a fundamental mechanism linking predation and ecosystem functioning.

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Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude.

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Shifts in microbial community structure and function in stream sediments during experimentally simulated riparian succession

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning

Litter supply as a driver of microbial activity and community structure on decomposing leaves: a test in experimental streams

scientific article (publication date: August 2013)

Importance of advective mass transfer and sediment surface area for streambed microbial communities

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Genotypic trait variation modifies effects of climate warming and nitrogen deposition on litter mass loss and microbial respiration

scientific article published on 11 September 2014