Selected and recent (last 10 years) publications

Updated June 2010

Most of these articles are available from the Coweeta web page

 

Mulholland, P.J., E.R. Marzolf, J.R. Webster, D.R. Hart, and S.P. Hendricks.  1997.  Evidence that hyporheic zones increase heterotrophic metabolism and phosphorus uptake in forested streams.  Limnology and Oceanography 42:443-451.

Webster, J.R. and J.L. Meyer (editors).  1997.  Stream organic matter budgets. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16:3-161

Wallace, J.B., S.L. Eggert, J.L. Meyer, J.R. Webster.  1997.  Multiple trophic levels of a forest stream linked to terrestrial litter inputs.  Science 277:102-104

Webster, J.R., E.F. Benfield, M.A. Schaeffer, T.P. Ehrman, J.L. Tank, J.J. Hutchens, and D.J. D’Angelo. 1999.  What happens to allochthonous material that falls into streams:  synthesis of new and published information from Coweeta.  Freshwater Biology 41:687-705.

Wallace, J.B., S.L. Eggert, J.L. Meyer, J.R. Webster.  1999.  Effects of resource limitation on a detrital-based ecosystem.  Ecological Monographs 69:409-442.

Mulholland, P.J., J.L. Tank, D.M. Sanzone, W. Wollheim, B.J. Peterson, J.R. Webster, and J.L. Meyer.  2000.  Food resources of stream macroinvertebrates determined by natural-abundance stable C and N isotopes and a 15N addition.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 19:145-157.

Tank, J.L., J.L. Meyer, D.M. Sanzone, P.J. Mulholland, J.R. Webster, B.J. Peterson, and N.E. Leonard.  2000.  Analysis of nitrogen cycling in a forest stream during autumn using a 15N tracer addition.  Limnology and Oceanography 45:1013-1029. 

Mulholland, P.J., J.L. Tank, D.M. Sanzone, W. Wollheim, B.J. Peterson, J.R. Webster, and J.L. Meyer.  2000.  Nitrogen cycling in a forest stream determined by a 15N tracer addition.  Ecological Monographs 70:471-493.

Peterson, B.J., W. Wollheim, P.J. Mulholland, J.R. Webster, J.L. Meyer, J.L. Tank, Martí, E., W.B. Bowden, H.M. Valett, A.E. Hershey, W.H. McDowell, W.K. Dodds, S.K. Hamilton, S.V. Gregory, and D.D. Morrall.  2001.  Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams.  Science 292:86-90.

Webster, J.R., E.F. Benfield, J.J. Hutchens, J.L. Tank, S.W. Golladay, and J.C. Adams.  2001.  Do leaf breakdown rates actually measure leaf disappearance from streams?  International Review of Hydrobiology 86:417-427.

Benfield, E.F., J.R. Webster, J.L. Tank, and J.J. Hutchens.  2001.  Long-term patterns in leaf breakdown in streams in response to watershed logging.  International Review of Hydrobiology 86:467-474.

Wallace J.B., J.R. Webster, S.E. Eggert, J.L. Meyer, and E.R. Siler.  2001.  Large woody debris in a headwater stream: long-term legacies of forest disturbance.  International Review of Hydrobiology 86:501-513

Mulholland, P.J., C.S. Fellows, J.L. Tank, N.B. Grimm, J.R. Webster, S.K. Hamilton, E. Martí, L. Ashkenas, W.B. Bowden, W.K. Dodds, W.H. McDowell, M.J. Paul, and B.J. Peterson.  2001.  Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism.  Freshwater Biology 46:1503-1517.

Hamilton, S.K., J.L. Tank, D.F. Raikow, W.M. Wollheim, B.J. Peterson, and J.R. Webster.  2001.  Nitrogen uptake and transformation in a midwestern US stream: A stable isotope enrichment study.  Biogeochemistry 54:297-340.

Martin, L.A., P.J. Mulholland, J.R. Webster, and H.M. Valett.  2001.  Denitrification potential in sediments of headwater streams in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20:505-519.

Thomas, S.A., H.M. Valett, J.R.Webster, P.J. Mulholland, C.S. Fellows, C.N. Dahm, and C.G. Peterson.  2001.  Nitrogen retention in headwater streams: the influence of groundwater  surface water interaction.  In: Optimizing nitrogen management in food and energy production and environmental protection: Proceedings of the 2nd International Nitrogen Conference on Science and Policy.  The Scientific World 1(S2):623-631.

Tank, J.L., P.J Mulholland, J.L. Meyer, W.B. Bowden, J.R Webster, and B.J Peterson.  2001.  Contrasting food web linkages for the grazing pathway in three temperate forested streams using 15N as a tracer. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 27:2832-2835.

Crenshaw, C.L., H.M. Valett, and J.R. Webster.  2002.  Effects of augmentation of coarse particulate organic matter on metabolism and nutrient retention in hyporheic sediments.  Freshwater Biology 47:1820-1831.

Dodds, W.K., A.J. López, W.B. Bowden, S. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, A.E. Hershey, E. Martí, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Meyer, D. Morrall, P.J. Mulholland, B.J. Peterson, J.T. Tank, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and W. Wollheim.  2002.  N uptake as a function of concentration in streams.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21:206-220.

Mulholland, P.J., J.L. Tank, J.R. Webster, W.B. Bowden, W.K. Dodds, S.V. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, E. Martí, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Merriam, J.L. Meyer, B.J. Peterson, H.M. Valett, and W.M. Wollheim.  2002.  Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments?  Results from an inter-biome comparison study.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21:544-560,

Thomas, S.A., H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and P.J. Mulholland.  2003.  A regression approach to estimating reactive solute uptake in advective and transient storage compartments of stream ecosystems.  Advances in Water Resources 26:965-976.

McTammany, M.E., J.R. Webster, E.F. Benfield, and M.A. Neatrour.  2003.  Longitudinal patterns of metabolism in a southern Appalachian river.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22:359-370.

Webster, J.R., P.J. Mulholland, J.L. Tank, B.J. Peterson, W.R. Dodds, H.M. Valett, W.B.  Bowden, C.N. Dahm, S. Findlay, S.V. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, E. Martí, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Merriam, D.D. Morrall, J.L. Meyer, S.A. Thomas, and W.M. Wollheim.  2003.  Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams – an inter-biome perspective.  Freshwater Biology 48:1329-1352.

Neatrour, M.A., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield.  2004.  The role of floods in particulate organic matter dynamics of a southern Appalachian river-floodplain ecosystem.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23:198-213.

Mulholland, P.J., H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, S.A. Thomas, L.N. Cooper, S. Hamilton, and B.J. Peterson.  2004.  Stream denitrification and total nitrate uptake rates measured using a field 15N tracer addition approach.  Limnology and Oceanography 49:809-820.

Dodds, W.K., E. Martí, J.L. Tank, J. Pontius, S.K. Hamilton, N.B. Grimm, W.B. Bowden, W.H. McDowell, B.J. Peterson, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and S. Gregory.  2004.  Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling rates in streams.  Oecologia 140:458-467.

Payn, R.P., J.R. Webster, P.J. Mulholland, H.M. Valett, and W.K. Dodds.  2005.  Estimation of stream nutrient uptake from nutrient addition experiments.  Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 3:174-182.

Brookshire, J., H.M. Valett, S.A. Thomas, and J.R. Webster.  2005.  Coupled cycling of dissolved organic nitrogen and carbon in a forest stream.  Ecology 86:2487-2496.

Chaffin, J.L., H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and M. Schreiber.  2005.  Influence of elevated As on leaf breakdown in an Appalachian headwater stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24:553-568.

Ellison, A. M., M.S. Bank, B. D. Clinton, E.A. Colburn, K. Elliott, C.R. Ford, D.R. Foster, B.D. Kloeppel, J.D. Knoepp, G.M. Lovett, J. Mohan, D.A. Orwig, N.L. Rodenhouse, W.V. Sobczak, K.A. Stinson, J.K. Stone, C.M. Swan, J. Thompson, B. Von Holle, and J.R. Webster.  2005.  Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:479-486.

Hagen, E.M., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield.  2006.  Leaf breakdown rates are not a useful measure of stream integrity along an agricultural land use gradient.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:330-343.

Webster, J.R., and H.M. Valett.  2006.  Solute Dynamics.  Pages 169-185 in Methods in Stream Ecology, Second Edition.  F.R. Hauer and G.A. Lamberti (Editors).  Academic Press, San Diego. 

Mulholland, P.J., S.A. Thomas, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and J. Beaulieu.  2006.   Effects of light on nitrate uptake in small forested streams:  effects of diurnal and day-to-day variations.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25:583-595.

Earl, S., H.M. Valett, and J.R. Webster.  2006.  Nitrogen saturation in stream ecosystems.  Ecology 87:3140-3151.

Webster, J.R.  2007.  Spiraling down the river continuum:  Stream ecology and the U-shaped curve.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26:375-389.

Earl, S., H.M. Valett, and J.R. Webster.  2007.  Nutrient spiraling in streams:  Comparisons between stable isotope tracer and nutrient addition experiments.  Limnology and Oceanography 52:1718-1723.

McTammany, M.E., E. F. Benfield, and J. R. Webster.  2007.  Recovery of stream ecosystem metabolism from historical agriculture.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26:532-545.

Lottig, N.R., H.M. Valett, M.E. Schreiber, and J.R. Webster.  2007.    Flooding and arsenic contamination: Influences on ecosystem structure and function in an Appalachian headwater stream.  Limnology and Oceanography 52:1991-2001.

McTammany, M.E., E. F. Benfield, and J. R. Webster.  2008.  Effects of agriculture on wood breakdown and microbial biofilm respiration in southern Appalachian streams.  Freshwater Biology 53:842-854.

Mulholland, P.J., A.M. Helton, G.C. Poole, R.O. Hall, S.K. Hamilton, B.J. Peterson, J.L. Tank, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, W.K. Dodds, S.Findlay, S.V. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Meyer, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, C. Arango, J.J. Beaulieu, M.J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, L. Johnson, B. R. Niederlehner, J.M. O’Brien, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, D.J. Sobota, and S.M. Thomas.  2008.  Excess nitrate from agricultural and urban areas reduces denitrification efficiency in streams.  Nature 452:202-205.

Valett, H.M., S.A. Thomas, P.J. Mulholland, J.R. Webster, C.N. Dahm, C.S. Fellows, C.L. Crenshaw, and C.G. Peterson. 2008. Endogenous and exogenous control of ecosystem function: N cycling in headwater streams. Ecology 89:3515-3527.

Hall, R.O., J.L. Tank, D.J. Sobota, P.J. Mulholland, J.M. O’Brien, W.K. Dodds, J.R. Webster, H.M. Valett, G.C. Poole, B.J. Peterson, J.L. Meyer, W.H. McDowell, S.L. Johnson, S.K. Hamilton, N.B. Grimm, S.V. Gregory, C.N. Dahm, L.W. Cooper, L.R. Ashkenas, S.M. Thomas, R.W. Sheibley, J.D. Potter, B.R. Neiderlehner, L.T. Johnson, A.M. Helton, C.M. Crenshaw, A.J. Burgin, M.J. Bernot, J.J. Beaulieu, and C.P. Arango. 2009. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake. Limnology and Oceanography 54:653-655.

Mulholland, P.J., R.O. Hall, D.J. Sobota, W.K. Dodds, S.E.G. Findlay, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, W.H. McDowell, J.M. O’Brien, J.L. Tank, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, S.V. Gregory, S.L. Johnson, J.L. Meyer, B.J. Peterson, G.C. Poole, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, C. P. Arango, J.J. Beaulieu, M.J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C.L. Crenshaw, A.M. Helton, L.T. Johnson, B.R. Niederlehner, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, and S.M. Thomas. 2009. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography 54:666-680.

Webster, J.R., J.D. Newbold, S.A. Thomas, H.M. Valett, and P.J. Mulholland. 2009. Nutrient uptake and mineralization during leaf decay in streams – a model simulation. International Review of Hydrobiology 94:372-390.

Mulholland, P.J., and J.R. Webster. 2010. Nutrient dynamics in streams and the role of J-NABS. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 29:100-117.