The Role of Disturbance in Stream Ecology

The River Continuum Concept

1980 • 9,654 citations

Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests and Coral Reefs

1978 • 8,878 citations

Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments

1984 • 8,087 citations

Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes

1979 • 5,383 citations

A General Hypothesis of Species Diversity

1979 • 3,369 citations

Fluvial processes in geomorphology

1965 • 3,167 citations

The distribution and abundance of animals

1974 • 2,811 citations

A hierarchical framework for stream habitat classification: Viewing streams in a watershed context

1986 • 2,308 citations

The Role of Disturbance in Natural Communities

1984 • 2,239 citations

Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem

1979 • 2,154 citations

Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology

1965 • 2,136 citations

AN EQUILIBRIUM THEORY OF INSULAR ZOOGEOGRAPHY

1963 • 2,020 citations

THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM

2007 • 1,733 citations

Structure and Function of Stream Ecosystems

1974 • 1,376 citations

An outline of the dynamics of animal populations.

1954 • 1,295 citations

Environmental Impact Assessment: "Pseudoreplication" in Time?

1986 • 1,285 citations

Trophic Relations of Aquatic Insects

1973 • 1,162 citations

Geographic Analysis of Thermal Equilibria: A Conceptual Model for Evaluating the Effect of Natural and Modified Thermal Regimes on Aquatic Insect Communities

1980 • 777 citations

Temporal Succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem Following Flash Flooding

1982 • 775 citations

Hydraulic Stream Ecology: Observed Patterns and Potential Applications

1988 • 713 citations

Importance of Organic Debris Dams in the Structure and Function of Stream Ecosystems

1980 • 653 citations

Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency of Periodic Phenomena

1974 • 582 citations

Invertebrate Productivity in a Subtropical Blackwater River: The Importance of Habitat and Life History

1984 • 540 citations

The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory

1985 • 494 citations

Stream Ecosystem Theory: A Global Perspective

1988 • 473 citations

Temporal Variability Patterns and the Distributional Patterns of Stream Fishes

1978 • 463 citations

The Limiting Role of Phosphorus in a Woodland Stream Ecosystem: Effects of P Enrichment on Leaf Decomposition and Primary Producers

1981 • 449 citations

Relationships between Woody Debris and Fish Habitat in a Small Warmwater Stream

1984 • 427 citations

Stochasticity in Structural and Functional Characteristics of an Indiana Stream Fish Assemblage: A Test of Community Theory

1982 • 419 citations

Regional reference sites: a method for assessing stream potentials

1986 • 354 citations

HUMAN IMPACTS ON WISCONSIN STREAM CHANNELS∗

1977 • 304 citations

Experimental Acidification of a Stream in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire

1980 • 298 citations

Contemporaneous Disequilibrium, a New Hypothesis to Explain the „Paradox of the Plankton”

1970 • 293 citations

Vaired Effects of Clear-cut Logging on Predators and Their Habitat in Small Streams of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon

1981 • 271 citations

Effects of Abiotic Disturbance on Coexistence of Predator‐Prey Fish Species

1984 • 267 citations

The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland

1969 • 259 citations

Nutrient Spiralling in Streams: Implications for Nutrient Limitation and Invertebrate Activity

1982 • 257 citations

Quantification of Wood Habitat in Subtropical Coastal Plain Streams

1984 • 231 citations

Local Geomorphology as a Determinant of Macrofaunal Production in a Mountain Stream

1987 • 226 citations

Variable effects of sediment addition on stream benthos

1981 • 217 citations

CHANNELED SCABLAND OF WASHINGTON: NEW DATA AND INTERPRETATIONS

1956 • 214 citations

Organic Matter Budgets for Stream Ecosystems: Problems in their Evaluation

1983 • 214 citations

Species Richness in Streams of Different Size from the Same Drainage Basin

1985 • 208 citations

Species Composition and Life Histories of Aquatic Insects in a Lowland Sonoran Desert Stream

1981 • 207 citations

Experimental disturbance and the maintenance of species diversity in a stream community

1985 • 200 citations

Effects of Floods on Trout in Sagehen Creek, California

1972 • 191 citations

The effect of physical disturbance on the relative abundances of two filter-feeding insects in a small stream

1983 • 186 citations

Substrate‐Mediated Response of Stream Invertebrates to Disturbance

1984 • 184 citations

Stability of Stream Ecosystems

1983 • 177 citations

Effects of Disturbance Frequency on Stream Benthic Community Structure in Relation to Canopy Cover and Season

1986 • 172 citations

Land-water interactions: the riparian zone

1982 • 172 citations

Genetic Changes in Hatchery Stocks of Brown Trout (Salmo trutta)

1980 • 165 citations

Resource spiralling: an operational paradigm for analyzing lotic ecosystems

1980 • 164 citations

Postflood Recolonization Pathways of Macroinvertebrates in a Lowland Sonoran Desert Stream

1981 • 163 citations

Structure and function of a benthic invertebrate stream community as influenced by beaver (Castor canadensis)

1986 • 154 citations

Year-to-Year Variation in the Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Fauna of a Northern California Stream

1989 • 147 citations

Effects of forest clearcutting on leaf breakdown in a southern Appalachian stream

1982 • 142 citations

Resource Depression by a Stream Herbivore: Effects on Distributions and Abundances of Other Grazers

1984 • 142 citations

Hyporheic Communities of Two Montana Rivers

1974 • 137 citations

Input, movement and exchange of organic matter within a subtropical coastal black water river‐flood plain system

1988 • 137 citations

PLURALISM IN ECOLOGY

1987 • 135 citations

Succession in Streams

1983 • 134 citations

Spatial and temporal variation in the macroinvertebrate fauna of streams of the northern jarrah forest, Western Australia: community structure

1986 • 125 citations

Foraging and Resource Patchiness: Field Experiments with a Grazing Stream Insect

1981 • 122 citations

The three dimensional distribution of the fauna in a single riffle in a stream in Ontario

1982 • 110 citations

Recovery of a Headwater Stream from an Insecticide-Induced Community Disturbance

1986 • 102 citations

Bioenergetic Considerations in the Analysis of Stream Ecosystems

1988 • 92 citations

Correspondence between spatial patterns in fish assemblages in ohio streams and aquatic ecoregions

1986 • 88 citations

Herbivory and intraspecific competition in a stream caddisfly population

1987 • 88 citations

Experimental studies of exploitative competition in a grazing stream insect

1987 • 88 citations

Evaluation of an Aquatic Ecoregion Classification of Streams in Arkansas

1987 • 88 citations

CHANNEL FORM AND STREAM ECOSYSTEM MODELS¹

1985 • 87 citations

Stream management emerging global similarities

1987 • 85 citations

Effects of Siltation, Resulting from Improper Logging, on the Bottom Fauna of a Small Trout Stream in the Southern Appalachians

1955 • 82 citations

Effects of artificial shading on periphyton and invertebrates in a New Zealand stream

1981 • 76 citations

Man's Effect on the Fish and Wildlife of the Illinois River

2011 • 72 citations

A comparison of streams in logged and unlogged areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

1983 • 71 citations

Application of Island Biogeographic Theory to Streams: Macroinvertebrate Recolonization of the Teton River, Idaho

1983 • 69 citations

Assessing the Food Base of Stream Ecosystems: Alternatives to the P/R Ratio

1987 • 55 citations

Substrate Relationships, Spatial Distribution Patterns, and Sampling Variability in a Stream Caddisfly Population

1979 • 50 citations

Channel adjustments to the removal of log steps: an experiment in a mountain stream

1985 • 50 citations

Disturbance and Vertebrates: An Integrative Perspective

1985 • 49 citations

The national hydrologic bench-mark network

1971 • 47 citations

On Measuring Fluctuating Environments: Predictability, Constancy, and Contingency

1981 • 45 citations

Distribution of Insects within Riffles of Streams

1984 • 43 citations

Acid Rain Information Book

1982 • 31 citations

Age Structure Alteration in a Caddisfly Population after Habitat Loss and Recovery

1982 • 24 citations

Sequential Decision Plans in Monitoring Benthic Macroinvertebrates: Cost Savings, Classification Accuracy, and Development of Plans

1988 • 17 citations

Concluding Remarks I: On the Nature of Large Tropical Rivers, Floodplains, and Future Research Directions

1988 • 17 citations

The effects of stream alterations on salmon and trout habitat in Oregon

1985 • 15 citations

THE FRESHWATER STREAM, A COMPLEX ECOSYSTEM¹

1970 • 5 citations