Central America hosts a diverse, unique, and imperiled amphibian fauna, and for decades
Central America been a major epicenter of research into amphibian decline and …

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Riparian plant litter is a major energy source for forested streams across the world and its
decomposition has repercussions on nutrient cycling, food webs and ecosystem functioning …

The quality and amount of productivity plays a central role in determining community
structure and biogeochemical dynamics in ecosystems. Humans have altered river …

Food webs are complex ecological networks that reveal species interactions and energy
flow in ecosystems. Prevailing ecological knowledge on forested streams suggests that their …

Coarse particulate organic matter (CPOM) inputs from riparian vegetation into streams and
CPOM benthic stock vary naturally in space and time, but most studies in the tropical …

Aquatic habitats are closely linked to surrounding terrestrial systems via reciprocal
subsidies. Much of the research on aquatic–terrestrial subsidies has focused on streams …

As part of the Tropical Amphibian Declines in Streams (TADS) project, we estimated
macroinvertebrate production and constructed quantitative food webs for four headwater …

Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem function are of increasing interest,
particularly in freshwater ecosystems where species losses are occurring at unprecedented …

Allochthonous organic matter is a major energy source for headwater stream ecosystems.
Therefore, examinations of how energy flows throughout these streams requires knowledge …