Small streams constitute the majority of the water courses in a catchment and have specific
characteristics that distinguish them from larger streams and rivers. Despite their small size …

Highlights•In some instances, insects can be large direct inputs of biomass to the detrital
pool.•Insects and other small invertebrates transform biomass and alter decomposition …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a
textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference source for …

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable
riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are …

Streams and their adjacent riparian zones are closely linked by reciprocal flows of
invertebrate prey. We review characteristics of these prey subsidies and their strong direct …

Aboveground-Belowground Linkages provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive
synthesis of recent advances in our understanding of the roles that interactions between …

This contribution proposes the meta‐ecosystem concept as a natural extension of the
metapopulation and metacommunity concepts. A meta‐ecosystem is defined as a set of …

The relationship between freshwater fish and the integrity of the riparian zone is reviewed
with special emphasis on the fauna of northern Australia. Linkages between freshwater fish …

A study of 16 streams in eastern North America shows that riparian deforestation causes
channel narrowing, which reduces the total amount of stream habitat and ecosystem per unit …