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List of works by Mark O. Gessner

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

scientific article

A Global Agenda for Advancing Freshwater Biodiversity Research

A Perspective on Leaf Litter Breakdown in Streams

scientific article published in 1999

A field facility to simulate climate warming and increased nutrient supply in shallow aquatic ecosystems

scientific article

A global agenda for advancing freshwater biodiversity research

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article

Antibiotic mixture effects on growth of the leaf-shredding stream detritivore Gammarus fossarum

scientific article

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

scientific article

Atmospheric Electricity Influencing Biogeochemical Processes in Soils and Sediments

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Bacteria, Fungi and the Breakdown of Leaf Litter in a Large River

scientific article published in 1995

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

scientific article

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2004

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems

scientific article published in 2004

Biodiversity of leaf litter fungi in streams along a latitudinal gradient

scientific article published in April 2019

Biodiversitätsmonitoring in Deutschland: Wie Wissenschaft, Politik und Zivilgesellschaft ein nationales Monitoring unterstützen können

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

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

scientific article published in April 2016

Breakdown and nutrient dynamics of submerged Phragmites shoots in the littoral zone of a temperate hardwater lake

scientific article published on 25 July 2002

Changes in food characteristics reveal indirect effects of lake browning on zooplankton performance

Chemical properties, microbial respiration, and decomposition of coarse and fine particulate organic matter

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

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

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

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

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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

Decomposition of diverse litter mixtures in streams

scientific article

Density constrains cascading consequences of warming and nitrogen from invertebrate growth to litter decomposition.

scientific article

Design and implementation of an illumination system to mimic skyglow at ecosystem level in a large-scale lake enclosure facility

scientific article published in 2021

Differences in processing dynamics of fresh and dried leaf litter in a stream ecosystem

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

scientific article published on 27 October 2011

Dissolved organic matter signatures in urban surface waters: spatio-temporal patterns and drivers

scientific article published on 10 June 2022

Diversity meets decomposition

scientific article

Diversity patterns of leaf-associated aquatic hyphomycetes along a broad latitudinal gradient

scientific article published in 2013

Ecological stoichiometry of aquatic fungi: current knowledge and perspectives

scientific article published in 2016

Ecotoxicologial evaluation of wastewater ozonation based on detritus-detritivore interactions

scientific article published in November 2010

Effects of experimental warming and nitrogen enrichment on leaf and litter chemistry of a wetland grass, Phragmites australis

article published in 2014

Effects of shallow and deep sediment disturbance on whole-stream metabolism in experimental sand-bed flumes

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Evaluating the summer night sky brightness at a research field site on Lake Stechlin in northeastern Germany ⬇️

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

scientific article published on December 10, 2010

Exploring the Suitability of Ecosystem Metabolomes to Assess Imprints of Brownification and Nutrient Enrichment on Lakes

scientific article published in 2021

Extreme Weather Event Triggers Cascade Towards Extreme Turbidity in a Clear-water Lake

article

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

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Freshwater biodiversity: importance, threats, status and conservation challenges

scientific article published on 12 December 2005

From microbes to mammals: Pond biodiversity homogenization across different land‐use types in an agricultural landscape

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2010

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

scientific article

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

Global Patterns and Controls of Nutrient Immobilization on Decomposing Cellulose in Riverine Ecosystems

scientific article published in March 2022

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

scientific article

Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones

scientific article published on 09 January 2019

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

scientific article published in 2011

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

scientific article

Harmful effects of silver nanoparticles on a complex detrital model system

scientific article published on 4 December 2015

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

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biota across spatial scales and ecosystems

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

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

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Importance of exposure route in determining nanosilver impacts on a stream detrital processing chain

scientific article published in December 2021

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

scientific article published in July 2006

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

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Integrating Aquatic and Terrestrial Perspectives to Improve Insights Into Organic Matter Cycling at the Landscape Scale

scientific article published in 2019

Interactive effects of dissolved nitrogen, phosphorus and litter chemistry on stream fungal decomposers

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Interactive effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on growth and stoichiometry of lake phytoplankton

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

article

Land‐use type temporarily affects active pond community structure but not gene expression patterns

scientific article published on 31 January 2022

Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition

scientific article

Latitudinal gradient of nestedness and its potential drivers in stream detritivores

scientific article published in 2015

Leaf-decomposition heterogeneity across a riverine floodplain mosaic

article published in 2008

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

Light pollution of freshwater ecosystems: principles, ecological impacts and remedies

scientific article published on 30 October 2023

Litter Quality Modulates Effects of Dissolved Nitrogen on Leaf Decomposition by Stream Microbial Communities

scientific article published on 21 March 2019

Litter decomposition across multiple spatial scales in stream networks

scientific article published on 6 June 2009

Litter decomposition in a temperate and a tropical stream: the effects of species mixing, litter quality and shredders

Litter diversity, fungal decomposers and litter decomposition under simulated stream intermittency

scientific article published in 2011

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)

Long-term exposure to silver nanoparticles affects periphyton community structure and function

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2005

Mass loss, fungal colonisation and nutrient dynamics of Phragmites australis leaves during senescence and early aerial decay

Methane emissions from contrasting urban freshwaters: Rates, drivers, and a whole-city footprint

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

Microbial communities in contrasting freshwater marsh microhabitats

scientific article

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

scientific article published on February 2015

Pathways for cross-boundary effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

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

scientific article

Plant phylogenetic history explains in‐stream decomposition at a global scale

scientific article published on 27 July 2019

Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates

scientific article published in 2022

Predator-prey interactions in a changing world: humic stress disrupts predator threat evasion in copepods

scientific article

Prevalence of indirect toxicity effects of aluminium flakes on a shredder-fungal-leaf decomposition system

scientific article published in 2015

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

scientific article published in May 2010

Proteomic evidence of methanotrophy in methane-enriched hypolimnetic lake water

scientific article published in 2016

Resource quality and stoichiometric constraints on stream ecosystem functioning

Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude.

scientific article

River doctors: Learning from medicine to improve ecosystem management

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Silver nanoparticle effects on stream periphyton during short-term exposures

scientific article published in January 2015

Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: A global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Stream Ecosystem Functioning in an Agricultural Landscape

scholarly article by Sally Hladyz published in January 2011

Stress as a modifier of biodiversity effects on ecosystem processes?

scientific article

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

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

scientific article published in January 2009

The Alliance for Freshwater Life : A global call to unite efforts for freshwater biodiversity science and conservation

scientific article published in August 2018

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

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

scientific article

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

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

scientific article

Unravelling large-scale patterns and drivers of biodiversity in dry rivers

Uptake and physiological effects of the neonicotinoid imidacloprid and its commercial formulation Confidor® in a widespread freshwater oligochaete

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Variability of heterotrophic metabolism in small stream corridors of an early successional watershed

scholarly article

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