Trophic state is the property of energy availability to the food web and defines the foundation
of community integrity and ecosystem function. Describing trophic state in streams requires a …

Southern Appalachian forests are recognized as a biodiversity hot spot of global
significance, particularly for endemic aquatic salamanders and mussels. The dominant …

Nutrient enrichment is a key stressor of lakes and streams globally, affecting the relative
availability of important basal resources such as algae and detritus. These effects are …

Surface ecosystems provide the primary source of organic matter to many cave
communities. Variation in the strength of connectivity to the surface suggests that some …

Trophic linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are common and sensitive to
disruption. However, there is little information on what causes variation in the strength and …

Because of their longevity and skeletal phosphorus demand, vertebrates can have distinct
influences on the uptake, storage and recycling of nutrients in ecosystems. Quantification of …

To better understand the evolutionary and ecological effects of dispersal, there is growing
emphasis on the need to integrate direct data on movement behaviour into landscape‐scale …

Recent studies indicate golf courses may have a potential role in biodiversity conservation
and management in human dominated landscapes. To serve this ecological role, effects of …

Energy (carbon) availability is considered the primary mechanism influencing both
evolutionary and ecological processes in cave ecosystems, and both experimental and …

Nutrient‐driven perturbations to the resource base of food webs are predicted to attenuate
with trophic distance, so it is unclear whether higher‐level consumers will generally respond …