Class Texts

Hauer, Lamberti: Methods in Stream Ecology, Academic Press

Lisensky,G., Acid Rain Module, ChemConnections, 2000. Purchase the PDF file for $5 from WW. Norton online store. You will need a valid credit card.

The Acid Rain web pages on this site have a day-by-day summary of the readings.

Articles

(articles in blue are assigned and will be discussed in class on days indicated in syllabus and assignments pages)

Overview of "river health"

Karr, J., Clean Water is Not Enough, Illahee, 11(1&2), 1995, pp. 51-59.

Poff, N.L. et. al., The Natural Flow Regime, Bioscience, 47(11), 1997, pp. 769-784. (Week 3)

Applied fluvial geomorphology-describes the Rosgen classificaton system

Rosgen, D. L. (1994). "A Classification of Natural Rivers." Catena 22: 169-199. (Week 1)

River Continuum & Primary Productivity

Vannote, R.L., G.W. Minshall, K.W. Cummins, J.R. Sedell, & C.E. Cushing. 1980. The River Continuum Concept. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 37:130-137. (Week 1-2)

Minshall, G. W., R. C. Petersen, et al. (1983). "Interbiome Comparison of Stream Ecosystem Dynamics." Ecological Monographs 53(1): 2-25. (Week 2)

Minshall, G. W. (1978). "Autotrophy in Stream Ecosystems." BioScience 28(12): 767-771.

Disturbance

Resh, V. H., A. V. Brown, et al. (1988). "The Role of Disturbance in Stream Ecology." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 7(4): 433-455.

Hydrology/Ecology Interface

Benda, L., L. N. Poff, et al. (2004). "The Network Dynamics Hypothesis: How Channel Networks Structure Riverine Habitats." Bioscience 54(5): 413-427.

Mouton, A. M., M. Schneider, et al. (2007). "Fish habitat modelling as a tool for river management." Ecological Engineering 29(3): 305-315.

Riparian Ecology

Tennesen, M. (2008). "When Juniper and Woody Plants Invade, Water May Retreat." Science 322(5908): 1630-1631.

Strayer, D. L., R. E. Beighley, et al. (2003). "Effects of land cover on stream ecosystems: Roles of empirical models and scaling issues." Ecosystems 6(5): 407-423.

Groffman, P. M., D. J. Bain, et al. (2003). "Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(6): 315-321.

Naiman, R. J. and H. Decamps (1997). "The Ecology of Interfaces: Riparian Ecology." Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 28: 621-659.

Stream Ecology

Ward, J. V. and K. Tockner (2001). "Biodiversity: towards a unifying theme for river ecology." Freshwater Biology 46: 807-819.

Scheffer, M. (1991). "Should we expect strange attractors behind plankton dynamics - and if so, should we bother?" J. Plankton Res. 13(6): 1291-1305.

Dodds, W. K., J. R. Jones, et al. (1998). "Suggested classification of stream trophic state: distributions of temperate stream types by chlorophyll, total nitrogen, and phosphorus." Water Research 32(5): 1455-1462.

Acid Rain

Likens, G.E., Driscoll, C.T., Buso, D.C., Long-Term Effects of Acid Rain:Response and Recovery of a Forest Ecosystem, Science, 272, 1996, pp. 244-246. (Week 3)

Aquatic Geochemistry

Gibbs, R. J. (1970). "Mechanisms Controlling World Water Chemistry." Science 170(3962): 1088-1090.

Meybeck, M. and C. Vorosmarty (2005). "Fluvial filtering of land-to-ocean fluxes: from natural Holocene variations to Anthropocene." Comptes Rendus Geosciences 337(1-2): 107-123.

Workshop, S. S. (1990). "Concepts and Methods for Assessing Solute Dynamics in Stream Ecosystems." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 9(2): 95-119.

Smith, R. A., R. B. Alexander, et al. (2003). "Natural Background Concentrations of Nutrients in Streams and Rivers of the Conterminous United States." Env. Sci. & Technology 37(14): 3039-3047.

Eutrophication

Dodds, W. K. (2006). "Nutrients and the dead zone the link between nutrient ratios and dissolved oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(4): 211-217.

Biggs, B. J. F. (2000). "Eutrophication of Streams and Rivers: Dissolved Nutrient-Chlorophyll Relationships for Benthic Algae." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 19(1): 17-31.

Smith, V. H., G. D. Tilman, et al. (1999). "Eutrophication: impacts of excess nutrient inputs on freshwater, marine, and terrestrial ecosystems." Environmental Pollution 100(1-3): 179-196.

Conley, D. J., H. W. Paerl, et al. (2009). "Controlling Eutrophication: Nitrogen and Phosphorus." Science 323(5917): 1014-1015.

Diaz, R. J. and R. Rosenberg (2008). "Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems." Science 321(5891): 926-929.

Aquatic Phosphate

Peterson, B. J., J. E. Hobbie, et al. (1985). "Transformation of a Tundra River from Heterotrophy to Autotrophy by Addition of Phosphorus." Science 229(4720): 1383-1386. (Week 2)

Schindler, D. W. (1977). "Evolution of Phosphorus Limitation in Lakes." Science 195(4275): 260-262.

Nutrient Stoichiometry

Dodds, W. K. (1993). "What controls levels of dissolved phosphate and ammonium in surface waters?" Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries 55(2): 132-142.

Carpenter, S. R., N. F. Caraco, et al. (1998). "Nonpoint Pollution of Surface Waters with Phosphorus and Nitrogen." Ecological Applications 8(3): 559-568.

Boynton, W. R., J. H. Garber, et al. (1995). "Inputs, Transformations, and Transport of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Chesapeake Bay and Selected Tributaries." Estuaries 18(1): 285-314.

Tyrrell, T. (1999). "The relative influences of nitrogen and phosphorus on oceanic primary production." Nature 400(6744): 525-531.

Hessen, D. O., G. I. Agren, et al. (2004). "Carbon Sequestration in Ecosystems: The Role of Stoichiometry." Ecology 85(5): 1179-1192.

Aquatic Nitrogen

Schlesinger, W. H., K. H. Reckhow, et al. (2006). "Global change: The nitrogen cycle and rivers." Water Resources Research 42(3).

Paredes, D., P. Kuschk, et al. (2007). "New Aspects of Microbial Nitrogen Transformations in the Context of Wastewater Treatment - A Review." Engineering in Life Sciences 7(1): 13-25.

Mulholland, P. J., A. M. Helton, et al. (2008). "Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading." Nature 452(7184): 202-205. (Week 3)

Alkalinity and pH

Brewer, P. G. and E. T. Peltzer (2009). "OCEANS: Limits to Marine Life." Science 324(5925): 347-348.

Kney, A. D. and D. Brandes (2007). "A graphical screening method for assessing stream water quality using specific conductivity and alkalinity data." Journal of Environmental Management 82(4): 519-528.

Schindler, D. W., M. A. Turner, et al. (1986). "Natural Sources of Acid Neutralizing Capacity in Low Alkalinity Lakes of the Precambrian Shield." Science 232(4752): 844-847.

Raymond, P. A., N.-H. Oh, et al. (2008). "Anthropogenically enhanced fluxes of water and carbon from the Mississippi River." Nature 451(7177): 449-452. (Week 2)

FINAL PROJECTS

Booth, D. B., J. R. Karr, et al. (2004). "Reviving Urban Streams: Land Use Hydrology, Biology and Human Behavior." Journal of the American Water Resources Association October: 1351-1364.

Gucker, B., M. Brauns, et al. (2006). "Effects of wastewater treatment plant discharge on ecosystem structure and function of lowland streams." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 25(2): 313-329.

Lake, P. S., N. Bond, et al. (2007). "Linking ecological theory with stream restoration." Freshwater Biology 52(4): 597-615.

Leopold, L. B. (1968). Hydrology for Urban Land Planning: A Guidebook on the Hydrologic Effects of Urban Land Use. USGS Circular. Washington, DC, US Geological Survey. 554.

Suren, A. M. and S. McMurtrie (2005). "Assessing the effectiveness of enhancement activities in urban streams: II. Responses of invertebrate communities." River Research and Applications 21(4): 439-453.

Walsh, C. J., A. H. Roy, et al. (2005). "The urban stream syndrome: current knowledge and the search for a cure." Journal of the North American Benthological Society 24(3): 706-723.

Reference Texts

Elder,D., Killam, G., Koberstein,P., The Clean Water Act; An Owner's Manual, March 1999, River Network, Portland Oregon.

Dates,G., Byrne,J., Living Waters, River Network, Portland, Oregon.

Designing a Monitoring Strategy, River Network, Portland, Oregon

Kegley,S., Water Treatment Module, Beta Version, ChemConnections, 2000.

Stephen Lower, Redox Equilibria in Natural Waters, A Chem1 Reference Text

Guidelines for proposal writing (Minnesota Grants Home page)

GIS Applications Classes (ESRI)

Full Text of the Clean Water Act

Harris,D., Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 6th Edition, Freeman, 2003.

NIST WebBook