Research Publications

Watershed Ecology: Since 1988

• Bain, D. B., Green, M., Campbell, J. L., Chamblee, J. F., Chaoka, S., Fraterrigo, J., Kaushal, S. S., Martin, S., Jordan, T., Parolari, A. J., Sobczak, W. V., Weller, D., Wollheim, W., Boose, E. R., Duncan, J., Gettel, G., Hall, B. R., Kumar, P., Thompson, J. R., Vose, J. M., Elliott, E., Leigh, D. 2012. Legacy Effects in Material Flux: Structural Catchment Changes Predate Long-Term Studies. BioScience 62: 575-584.
• Bank, M. S., Burgess, J., Evers, D., Loftin, C. S. 2007. Mercury contamination in biota from Acadia National Park, Maine, USA: a review. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment (Special Nitrogen & Mercury Biogeochemistry in Acadia National Park Issue) 126: 105-115.
• Bank, M. S., Lotfin, C. S., Jung, E. R. 2005. Mercury bioaccumulations in Northern two-lined salamanders from streams of the Northeastern United States. Excotoxicology 14: 181-191.
• Bishop, G. D., Church, M. R., Aber, J. D., Neilson, R. P., Ollinger, S. V., Daley, C. 1998. A comparison of mapped estimates of long-term runoff in the northeastern United States. Journal of Hydrology 206: 176-190.
• Brooks, R. T., Colburn, E. A. 2011. Extent and Channel Morphology of Unmapped Headwater Stream Segments of the Quabbin Watershed, Massachusetts. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 47: 158-168.
• Butman, D., Raymond, P. A. 2011. Significant efflux of carbon dioxide from streams and rivers in the United States. Nature Geoscience 4: 839-842.
• Colburn, E. A. 2001. Small pools close up: Examining vernal pools of the Northeast. National Wetlands Newsletter 7-8: 17-18.
• Colburn, E. A. 2004. Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation. McDonald & Woodward, Blacksburg, Virginia and Granville, Ohio.
• Colburn, E. A. 2008. Ecosystems: Temporary waters. In: Jorgensen, S. E., Fath, B. D., Encyclopedia of Ecology, Elsevier B.V., Oxford.
• Colburn, E. A., Garretson Clapp, F. M. 2006. Habitat and life history of a northern caddisfly,. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 537-550.
• Cole, J. J., Prairie, Y. T., Caraco, N. F., McDowell, W. H., Tranvik, L. J., Striegl, R. G., Duarte, C. M., Kortelainen, P., Downing, J. A., Middelburg, J. J., Melack, J. 2007. Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget. Ecosystems 10: 172-185.
• Collins*, B., Sobczak, W. V., Colburn, E. A. 2007. Subsurface flowpaths in a forested headwater stream harbor a diverse macroinvertebrate community. Wetlands 27: 319-325.
• Cook, T. L., Snyder, N. P., Oswald, W. W., Paradis, K. 2020. Timber harvest and flood impacts on sediment yield in a postglacial, mixed-forest watershed, Maine, USA. Anthropocene 29: 100232, 15 pp.
• Czikowsky, M. J., Fitzjarrald, D. R. 2001. Seasonal and successional effects on streamflow in the northeast. Eos. Trans. AGU 82 (80): B52A-04.
• Downs, M. R., Michener, R. H., Fry, B., Nadelhoffer, K. J. 1999. Routine measurement of dissolved inorganic 15N in precipitation and streamwater. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 55: 211-220.
• Farnsworth, E. J., Sinton, J., Sinton, W. 2007. The Connecticut River Boating Guide: Source to Sea. Globe Pequot Press, Guilford.
• Francis, D. R. 2001. Reconstructing past hyopolimnetic oxygen conditions in a temperate multidepression lake using chemical evidence and chironomid remains. Journal of Paleolimnology 25: 351.
• Francis, D. R. 2004. Distribution of Midge Remains (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Surficial Lake Sediments in New England. Northeastern Naturalist 11: 459-478.
• Francis, D. R., Foster, D. R. 2001. Response of small New England ponds to historic land use. The Holocene 11: 301-312.
• Francis, D. R., Jude, D. J., Barres, J. A. 1998. Mercury Distribution in the Biota of a Great Lakes Estuary: Old Woman Creek, Ohio. Journal of Great Lakes Research 24: 595-607.
• Green, M. B., Pardo, L. H., Campbell, J. L., Rosi, E., Bernhardt, E. S., Driscoll, C. T., Fahey, T. J., LoRusso, N., Matthes, J., Templer, P. H. 2023. Combination of factors rather than single disturbance drives perturbation of the nitrogen cycle in a temperate forest. Biogeochemistry 166: 139-157.
• Guswa, A. J., Hall, B., Cheng, C., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Co-designed Land-use Scenarios and their Implications for Storm Runoff and Streamflow in New England. Environmental Management 66: 785–800.
• Jones, J. A. 2005. Intersite comparisons of rainfall-runoff processes. In: Anderson, M., Encyclopedia of Hydrologic Sciences, John Wiley, Chichester, England.
• Jones, J. A., Creed, I. F., Hatcher, K. L., Warren, R. J., Adams, M. B., Benson, M. J., Boose, E. R., Brown, W. A., Campbell, J. L., Covich, A., Clow, D. W., Dahn, C. M., Elder, K., Ford, C. R., Grimm, N. B., Henshaw, D. L., Larson, K. L., Miles, E. S., Miles, K. M., Sebestyen, S. D., Spargo, A. T., Stone, A. B., Vose, J. M., Williams, M. W. 2012. Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites. BioScience 62: 390-404.
• Kahl, J. S., Nelson, S., Fernandez, I. J., Haines, T., Wiersma, G. B., Norton, S., Jacobson Jr., G., Amirbahman, A., Johnson, A. G., Schauffler, M., Peckenham, J., Rustad, L. E., Tonnessen, K., Neilsen, M., Weathers, K., Lent, R. A., Bank, M. S., Elvir, J., Eckhoff, J., Caron, H., Ruck, P., Parker, J., Campbell, J. L., Manski, D., Breen, R., Roman, C., Sheehan, K., Grygo, A. 2007. Effects of landscape heterogeneity on stream water biogeochemistry at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 126: 9-25.
• Kim, J. H., Hwang, T., Yang, Y., Schaaf, C. L., Boose, E., Munger, J. W. 2018. Warming-Induced Earlier Greenup Leads to Reduced Stream Discharge in a Temperate Mixed Forest Catchment. Journal of Geophysical Research 123: 1940-1959.
• Kim, J., Hwang, T., Schaaf, C. L., Orwig, D. A., Boose, E. R., Munger, J. W. 2017. Increased water yield due to the hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in New England. Geophysical Research Letters 44: 2327-2335.
• Köster, D., Pienitz, R. 2006. Seasonal Diatom Variability and Paleolimnological Inferences - A Case Study. Journal of Paleolimnology 35: 395-416.
• Köster, D., Pienitz, R., Wolfe, B. B., Barry, S., Foster, D. R., Dixit, S. S. 2005. Paleolimnological assessment of human-induced impacts on the nutrient balance of Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) during the last three centuries using diatoms and stable isotopes. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 8: 117-131.
• Li, K., Kuppel, S., Knighton, J. 2023. Parameterizing Vegetation Traits With a Process-Based Ecohydrological Model and Xylem Water Isotopic Observations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 15: e2022MS003263.
• Linkins, A. E., Sinsabaugh, R. L., McClaugherty, C. M., Melillo, J. M. 1990. Comparison of cellulase activity on decomposing leaves in a hardwood forest and woodland stream. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 22: 423-425.
• Maxwell, J. T., Harley, G. L., Tucker, C. S., Galuska, T., Ficklin, D. L., Bregy, J. C., Heeter, K. J., Au, T. F., Lockwood, B. R., King, D. J., Maxwell, R. S., Smith, L. G., Elliott, E. A., Therrell, M. D. 2022. 1,100-Year Reconstruction of Baseflow for the Santee River, South Carolina, USA Reveals Connection to the North Atlantic Subtropical High. Geophysical Research Letters 49: e2022GL100742.
• Raymond, P. A., Saiers, J. E. 2010. Event controlled DOC export from forested watersheds. Biogeochemistry 100: 197-209.
• Rowell*, T. J., Sobczak, W. V. 2008. Will stream periphyton respond to increases in light following forecasted regional hemlock mortality?. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23: 33-40.
• Thompson, J. R., Lambert, K. F., Foster, D. R., Broadbent, E. N., Blumstein, M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Fan,Y. 2016. The consequences of four land-use scenarios for forest ecosystems and the services they provide. Ecosphere 7: e01469.
• Watterson, N. A., Jones, J. A. 2006. Flood and debris flow interactions with roads promote exotic plant invasion in steep mountain streams, western Oregon. Geomorphology 78: 107-123.
• Willacker*, J. J., Sobczak, W. V., Colburn, E. A. 2009. Stream macroinvertebrate communities in paired hemlock and deciduous watersheds. Northeastern Naturalist 16: 101-112.
• Wilson, H. F., Raymond, P. A., Saiers, J. E., Sobczak, W. V., Xu, N. 2016. Increases in humic and bioavailable dissolved organic matter in a forested New England headwater stream with increasing discharge. Marine and Freshwater Research 67: 1279-1292.
• Wilson, H. F., Saiers, J. E., Raymond, P. A., Sobczak, W. V. 2013. Hydrologic Drivers and Seasonality of Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentration, Nitrogen Content, Bioavailability, and Export in a Forested New England Stream. Ecosystems 16: 604-616.
• Xu, N., Saiers, J. E. 2010. Temperature and Hydrologic Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Mobilization and Transport within a Forest Topsoil. Environmental Science and Technology 44: 5423-29.
• Xu, N., Saiers, J. E., Wilson, H. F., Raymond, P. A. 2012. Simulating streamflow and dissolved organic matter export from a forested watershed. Water Resources Research 48: W05519.

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