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A New Method to Reconstruct Quantitative Food Webs and Nutrient Flows from Isotope Tracer Addition Experiments

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

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

scientific article

A global perspective on tropical montane rivers

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

A unifying framework for analyzing temporal changes in functional and taxonomic diversity along disturbance gradients

scientific article

An ecosystem engineer, the beaver, increases species richness at the landscape scale

article

Aquatic Predators Influence Micronutrients: Important but Understudied

scientific article published on 11 August 2019

Biodiversity Conservation in Running Waters

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

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

scientific article published in April 2016

Changes in digestive traits and body nutritional composition accommodate a trophic niche shift in Trinidadian guppies

scientific article

Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude

scientific article published in 2017

Combined effects of hydrologic alteration and cyprinid fish in mediating biogeochemical processes in a Mediterranean stream

scientific article published on 06 June 2017

Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams

article

Conversion efficiency of alpha linolenic acid to omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids in aerial insectivore chicks.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk

scientific article published in 2021

Determinants of food resource assimilation by stream insects along a tropical elevation gradient.

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Detritivorous fish indirectly reduce insect secondary production in a tropical river

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Differences in nutrient mineralisation between native and invasive grazing catfish during the invasion process

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Divergence across diet, time and populations rules out parallel evolution in the gut microbiomes of Trinidadian guppies

scientific article published on 9 January 2015

Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Ecosystem Engineering by a Tropical Tadpole: Density-Dependent Effects on Habitat Structure and Larval Growth Rates

scientific article published on 7 May 1999

Ecosystem Function and Services of Aquatic Predators in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Effects of behavioral and morphological plasticity on risk of predation in a Neotropical tadpole

scientific article published on 20 July 2004

Effects of consumer interactions on benthic resources and ecosystem processes in a neotropical stream

scientific article

Emergent Freshwater Insects Serve as Subsidies of Methylmercury and Beneficial Fatty Acids for Riparian Predators Across an Agricultural Gradient

scientific article

Environmental and organismal predictors of intraspecific variation in the stoichiometry of a neotropical freshwater fish.

scientific article

Extreme flooding decreases stream consumer autochthony by increasing detrital resource availability

Extreme streams: species persistence and genomic change in montane insect populations across a flooding gradient

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Extremely long-distance seed dispersal by an overfished Amazonian frugivore

scientific article (publication date: 22 November 2011)

Fasting or fear: Disentangling the roles of predation risk and food deprivation in the nitrogen metabolism of consumers

scientific article published on 7 January 2018

Fish distributions and nutrient cycling in streams: can fish create biogeochemical hotspots?

scientific article published on August 2008

Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters

scientific article

Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach

scientific article published on November 2016

High-quality seed dispersal by fruit-eating fishes in Amazonian floodplain habitats

scientific article published on 24 May 2009

How mobile are fish populations? Diel movement, population turnover, and site fidelity in suckers

scientific article published on 27 February 2013

Impacts of an invasive snail (Tarebia granifera) on nutrient cycling in tropical streams: the role of riparian deforestation in Trinidad, West Indies ⬇️

scientific article

Intraspecific variability modulates interspecific variability in animal organismal stoichiometry.

scientific article

Invasive Fishes Generate Biogeochemical Hotspots in a Nutrient-Limited System ⬇️

scientific article published on January 16, 2013

Invasive aquarium fish transform ecosystem nutrient dynamics ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 August 2013

Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on instream decomposition

scientific article

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

Leaf-litter decomposition across three flooding regimes in a seasonally flooded Amazonian watershed

scientific article published in 2011

Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters ecosystem processes

scientific article

Local vs. landscape controls on plant species richness in beaver meadows

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse tropical river

scientific article published on August 2006

Mercury biomagnification in the food web of a neotropical stream ⬇️

scientific article published on January 17, 2012

Metabolic stoichiometry and the ecology of fear in Trinidadian guppies: consequences for life histories and stream ecosystems

scientific article published on 26 September 2014

Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Nonnative fish stocking alters stream ecosystem nutrient dynamics

scientific article published on 5 January 2017

Nutrient diffusing substrata: a field comparison of commonly used methods to assess nutrient limitation

article by Krista A. Capps et al published June 2011 in Journal of the North American Benthological Society

Nutrient recycling by two phosphorus-rich grazing catfish: the potential for phosphorus-limitation of fish growth

scientific article published on 28 October 2005

Patterns in Freshwater Fish Ecology

scientific article published on 5 February 1999

Population size-structure-dependent fitness and ecosystem consequences in Trinidadian guppies

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Population variation in the trophic niche of the Trinidadian guppy from different predation regimes.

scientific article published on 18 July 2017

Quantifying the top-down and bottom-up effects of a non-native grazer in freshwaters

scientific article published on 04 October 2014

Rapid turnover of tissue nitrogen of primary consumers in tropical freshwaters

scientific article published on 3 February 2006

Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude.

scientific article

Sediment size and nutrients regulate denitrification in a tropical stream

article

Substitution of inland fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition in the Peruvian Amazon

scientific article

TROPICAL FISHES AS BIOLOGICAL BULLDOZERS: DENSITY EFFECTS ON RESOURCE HETEROGENEITY AND SPECIES DIVERSITY

scientific article published in 2004

Temperature-dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Testing the Role of Sediment-Mediated Interactions between Tadpoles and Armored Catfish in a Neotropical Stream

scientific article published in August 2004

The effects of predation and detritus on the structure of a stream insect community: a field test

scientific article

The experimental range extension of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) influences the metabolic activity of tropical streams

scientific article

The importance of predation, substrate and spatial refugia in determining lotic insect distributions

scientific article

The influence of dietary and whole-body nutrient content on the excretion of a vertebrate consumer.

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Trophic responses to aquatic pollution of native and exotic livebearer fishes

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Using δ15N of periphyton and fish to evaluate spatial and seasonal variation of anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in a polluted Brazilian river basin

scientific article published in 2020

Validating anthropogenic threat maps as a tool for assessing river ecological integrity in Andean-Amazon basins

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

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