Stream Ecosystem Theory: A Global Perspective

The River Continuum Concept

1980 • 9,654 citations

Fundamentals of ecology

1953 • 5,158 citations

The Trophic‐Dynamic Aspect of Ecology

1942 • 3,144 citations

The Ecology of Running Waters

1970 • 2,609 citations

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

1986 • 2,308 citations

Habitat, the Templet for Ecological Strategies?

1977 • 2,229 citations

Some methods for the statistical analysis of samples of benthic invertebrates

1971 • 1,824 citations

THE FLUVIAL SYSTEM

2007 • 1,733 citations

Primary Production in Flowing Waters1

1956 • 1,614 citations

The Role of Disturbance in Stream Ecology

1988 • 1,585 citations

Feeding Ecology of Stream Invertebrates

1979 • 1,490 citations

Structure and Function of Stream Ecosystems

1974 • 1,376 citations

Leaf processing in a woodland stream*

1974 • 1,271 citations

Hydrology for engineers

1958 • 1,233 citations

Trophic Relations of Aquatic Insects

1973 • 1,162 citations

Dynamics of Lotic Ecosystems.

1984 • 1,075 citations

River dynamics and the diversity of Amazon lowland forest

1986 • 890 citations

Trophic Structure and Productivity of Silver Springs, Florida

1957 • 831 citations

The stream and its valley

1975 • 786 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

Measuring Nutrient Spiralling in Streams

1981 • 702 citations

Interbiome Comparison of Stream Ecosystem Dynamics

1983 • 682 citations

Ecology and Field Biology

1966 • 676 citations

Grazing Minnows, Piscivorous Bass, and Stream Algae: Dynamics of a Strong Interaction

1985 • 673 citations

Secondary Production in Inland Waters

1977 • 637 citations

fate of the dead leaves that fall into streams

1971 • 627 citations

Time, space, and causality in geomorphology

1965 • 614 citations

The Drift of Stream Insects

1972 • 608 citations

The Geographical Cycle

1973 • 567 citations

Autotrophy in Stream Ecosystems

1978 • 542 citations

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

1984 • 540 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

Are New Zealand stream ecosystems really different?

1981 • 442 citations

Filter-Feeding Ecology of Aquatic Insects

1980 • 433 citations

Role of Allochthonous Detritus in the Trophic Structure of a Woodland Springbrook Community

1967 • 425 citations

Effects of Watershed Perturbation on Stream Potassium and Calcium Dynamics

1979 • 382 citations

Stream Periphyton and Insect Herbivores: An Experimental Study of Grazing by a Caddisfly Population

1983 • 364 citations

A SIMPLE METHOD OF ASSESSING THE ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF STREAM BENTHOS1

1968 • 354 citations

Factors Affecting Microdistribution of Stream Benthic Insects

1977 • 353 citations

Competition for Space, Disturbance, and the Structure of a Benthic Stream Community

1984 • 343 citations

Nitrogen Limitation in a Sonoran Desert Stream

1986 • 341 citations

Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

1977 • 339 citations

Secondary Production, Emergence, and Export of Aquatic Insects of a Sonoran Desert Stream

1986 • 330 citations

Adversity Selection and the Habitat Templet

1983 • 316 citations

Transport and Transformation of Phosphorus in a Forest Stream Ecosystem

1979 • 312 citations

Towards Dynamic Biological Oceanography and Limnology

1984 • 291 citations

Community Metabolism in a Temperate Cold Spring

1957 • 289 citations

Migration and Metabolism in a Temperate Stream Ecosystem

1972 • 284 citations

Predator‐Prey Interactions between Stoneflies and Mayflies: Behavioral Observations

1980 • 282 citations

Benthic community metabolism in four temperate stream systems: An inter-biome comparison and evaluation of the river continuum concept

1985 • 276 citations

The Distributional Relationship between the Bottom Fauna and Plant Detritus in Streams

1964 • 268 citations

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

1982 • 257 citations

Questions and Comments on the River Continuum Concept

1985 • 255 citations

Persistence and Structure of the Fish Assemblage in a Small California Stream

1985 • 253 citations

The Role of Substratum in Benthic Macroinvertebrate Microdistribution and Litter Decomposition in a Woodland Stream

1980 • 251 citations

Longitudinal and Seasonal Changes in Functional Organization of Macroinvertebrate Communities in Four Oregon Streams

1981 • 250 citations

Significance and Origin of Big Rivers

1978 • 245 citations

Interpretation of Invertebrate Drift in Streams

1965 • 242 citations

The Ecology of the Attached Diatoms and Other Algae in a Small Stony Stream

1958 • 240 citations

Effects of Food Quality on Growth of a Stream Detritivore, Paratendipes Albimanus (Meigen) (Diptera: Chironomidae)

1979 • 236 citations

The Distributional Ecology and Diversity of Benthic Insects in Cement Creek, Colorado

1975 • 233 citations

Studies on the Ecology of Rivers: I. On the Distribution of Macrophytic Vegetation in the Rivers of Britain

1933 • 228 citations

Microdistribution of benthic invertebrates in a rocky mountain (U.S.A.) stream

1977 • 226 citations

Geographical and Historical Comparisons of Neotropical Streams: Biotic Diversity and Detrital Processing in Highly Variable Habitats

1988 • 215 citations

Organic Matter Budgets for Stream Ecosystems: Problems in their Evaluation

1983 • 214 citations

The Ecology of River Systems

1986 • 208 citations

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

1985 • 208 citations

ROLE OF DETRITUS IN THE PRODUCTIVITY OF A ROCK‐OUTCROP COMMUNITY IN A PIEDMONT STREAM

1962 • 207 citations

Organic Carbon Spiralling in Stream Ecosystems

1982 • 206 citations

Diurnal Periodicity in the Drift of Stream Invertebrates

1962 • 199 citations

Algae-grazing minnows (Campostoma anomalum), piscivorous bass (Micropterus spp.), and the distribution of attached algae in a small prairie-margin stream

1983 • 195 citations

Rainbow Trout and Bottom Fauna Production in One Mile of Stream

1937 • 190 citations

Trout Production in an Experimental Stream Enriched with Sucrose

1964 • 185 citations

Nitrogen Budget for a Small Coniferous Forest Stream

1984 • 185 citations

The ecology of river algae

1956 • 184 citations

The role of sediments and bryophytes in phosphorus dynamics in a headwater stream ecosystem1

1979 • 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

V. Ecology, bionomics and evolution of the torrential fauna, with special reference to the organs of attachment

1930 • 169 citations

Laboratory Studies of Periphyton Production and Community Metabolism in Lotic Environments

1965 • 166 citations

Resource spiralling: an operational paradigm for analyzing lotic ecosystems

1980 • 164 citations

Macroinvertebrate Production in a Southeastern United States Blackwater Stream

1985 • 163 citations

The Annual Pattern and Spatial Distribution of Aquatic Oxygen Metabolism in Boreal Forest Watersheds

1983 • 158 citations

The Turnover Ratio in Production Ecology of Freshwater Invertebrates

1969 • 155 citations

Role of wood debris in modifying channel geomorphology and riparian areas of a large lowland river under pristine conditions: A historical case study

1984 • 152 citations

Decomposition of Four Species of Leaf Litter in Response to Nitrate Manipulation

1976 • 142 citations

Die Bedeutung der Strömung als ökologischer Faktor

1959 • 140 citations

EFFECT OF CURRENT ON MINERAL UPTAKE AND RESPIRATION BY A FRESH‐WATER ALGA1

1961 • 137 citations

ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION

1911 • 137 citations

Die Bedeutung der Strömung als ökologischer Faktor

1960 • 135 citations

Standing Crop and Drift of Stream Bottom Organisms

1961 • 134 citations

Ideas for a Synthetic Approach to the Ecology Of Running Waters

1960 • 132 citations

The response of stream macroinvertebrates to substrate size and heterogeneity

1984 • 130 citations

Ephemerella Mayflies of White Clay Creek: Bioenergetic and Ecological Relationships Among Six Coexisting Species

1981 • 130 citations

Bioenergetic and developmental response of a mayfly to thermal variation 1

1978 • 128 citations

Production Rate, Population Density, and Drift of a Stream Invertebrate

1966 • 123 citations

Metabolism of a desert stream

1981 • 123 citations

The Transformation of Energy by a Stream Detritivore, Pteronarcys Scotti (Plecoptera)

1970 • 121 citations

Search mechanism of a stream grazer in patchy environments: the role of food abundance

1984 • 119 citations

The daily activity patterns of mayfly nymphs (Ephemeroptera)

1968 • 116 citations

Organic Enrichment with Leaf Leachate in Experimental Lotic Ecosystems

1972 • 110 citations

Some relationships between stream benthos and substrate heterogeneity

1980 • 109 citations

Dynamics of Phosphorus and Organic Matter during Leaf Decomposition in a Forest Stream

1980 • 102 citations

Seasokal Changes in the Food Ingested by Aquatic Insect Larvae and Nymphs in Two Oregon Streams

1963 • 99 citations

The Bionomics of Brown Trout in a Dartmoor Stream

1961 • 98 citations

Trichopteran Communities of Streams Associated with Aspen and Conifer Forests: Long‐Term Structural Change

1982 • 98 citations

How Currents on Different Sides of Substrates in Streams Affect Mechanisms of Benthic Algal Accumulation

1984 • 95 citations

An ecological study of the algae of the Saline River, Michigan

1957 • 95 citations

Annual production and drift of the stream amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus in Valley Creek, Minnesota1

1980 • 94 citations

An assessment of biological interactions in an epilithic stream community using time-lapse cinematography

1981 • 94 citations

Continuous ammonium enrichment of a woodland stream: uptake kinetics, leaf decomposition, and nitrification

1983 • 93 citations

Perspectives in Running Water Ecology

1982 • 87 citations

Population Dynamics, Bioenergetics, and Role of Lepidostoma Quercina Ross (Trichoptera: Lepidostomatidae) in an Oregon Woodland Stream

1979 • 87 citations

Biological Studies on the River Susaa

1949 • 87 citations

Stream management emerging global similarities

1987 • 85 citations

Recolonization of Denuded Stream Bottom Areas by Drift

1964 • 82 citations

PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY AND ENERGY RELATIONSHIPS IN ARTIFICIAL STREAMS1

1965 • 81 citations

Competitive Relationships Between Certain Species of Fresh-Water Triclads

1932 • 78 citations

Bottom Fauna Production and Physical Nature of the Substrate in a Northern Colorado Trout Stream

1947 • 77 citations

Colonization of artificial substrates by stream insects: Influence of substrate size and diversity

1979 • 76 citations

The effect of grazing intensity on phosphorus spiralling in autotropic streams

1983 • 74 citations

The Food of the Larvae of Chloeon dipterum L. and Baetis rhodani (Pictet) (Insecta, Ephemeroptera)

1961 • 74 citations

The Effects of Plants on River Conditions: I. Summer Crops and Estimates of Net Productivity of Macrophytes in a Chalk Stream

1960 • 73 citations

Ecosystem and macrophyte primary production of the Fort River, Massachusetts

1976 • 72 citations

The Ephemeroptera of a Stony Stream

1957 • 72 citations

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

1983 • 69 citations

Community dynamics of the benthic fauna in a woodland springbrook

1968 • 69 citations

Influence of Substrate Composition and Suspended Sediment on Insect Predation by the Torrent Sculpin, Cottus rhotheus

1981 • 67 citations

Macroinvertebrate colonization of stones in two upland southern Australian streams

1985 • 67 citations

Colonization Curves: Application to Stream Insects on Semi-Natural Substrates

1977 • 63 citations

Avian Community Dynamics in Desert Grasslands: Observational Scale and Hierarchial Structure

1985 • 63 citations

Food Habits of Some Benthic Invertebrates in a Northern Cool-Desert Stream (Deep Creek, Curlew Valley, Idaho-Utah)

1973 • 62 citations

The role of periphyton abundance and quality in the microdistribution of a stream grazer, Helicopsyche borealis (Trichoptera: Helicopsychidae)

1986 • 61 citations

Life History and Population Energetics of the Dobson Fly, Corydalus Cornutus

1978 • 58 citations

The Fate of Animals in Stream Drift when Carried into Lakes

1944 • 58 citations

Microdistribution and Density as Factors Affecting the Downstream Drift of Mayfiles

1972 • 57 citations

Die Mölle. Faunistisch-ökologische Untersuchungen an einem Forellenbach im Lipper Bergland. Ein Beitrag zur Limnologie der Mittelgebirgsbäche.

1952 • 57 citations

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

1987 • 55 citations

River Ecology and Man

1972 • 54 citations

Daily Fluctuations of Drift Invertebrates in a Dartmoor Stream

1965 • 54 citations

Bioenergetics of a stream “collector” organism, Tricorythodes minutus (Insecta: Ephemeroptera)1,2

1979 • 52 citations

Studies in the Ecology of Rivers: IV. Observations on the Growth and Distribution of the Sessile Algae in the River Hull, Yorkshire

1940 • 51 citations

Ecological Studies of Aquatic Insects: Adaptations of Mayfly Nymphs to Swift Streams

1924 • 48 citations

Annual Production by Caddisflies and Mayflies in a Western Minnesota Plains Stream

1982 • 47 citations

Ecology of the Riffle Insects of the Firehole River, Wyoming

1958 • 45 citations

A Qualitative and Quantitative Measure of Aufwuchs Production

1966 • 44 citations

MODIFICATION OF A STREAM BOTTOM AND ITS EFFECT ON THE INSECT FAUNA

1940 • 44 citations

The Plankton of the Illinois River, 1894-1899, with Introductory Notes Upon the Hydrography of the Illinois River and its Basin

1908 • 44 citations

Colonization of artificial substrata by macro‐invertebrates in a stream and variations according to stone size

1980 • 41 citations

“An Ecological Classification of Certain Ontario Streams”, by William E. Ricker, Publication of the Ontario Fisheries Research Laboratory No. 49, University of Toronto Studies Biological series, No. 37, 1934

1935 • 40 citations

Ecological Studies on Aquatic Insects. III. Adaptations of Caddisfly Larvae to Swift Streams

1925 • 39 citations

A Framework for Climatological Research with Particular Reference to Scale Concepts

1970 • 38 citations

A Net For the Capture of Stream Drift Organisms

1928 • 38 citations

An Ecological Study of the River Towy

1951 • 37 citations

Faunistic Ecology of Some Cardiganshire Streams

1927 • 36 citations

XX.—Quantitative Studies on the Invertebrate Fauna of Sandy and Stony Substrates in the River Endrick, Scotland

1964 • 36 citations

A study of flow conditions near the substratum in an experimental channel [Translation from: Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 18, 718-725, 1972]

1977 • 35 citations

Organic Energy Budget of Rattlesnake Springs, Washington

1982 • 35 citations

BOTTOM TYPE AS A FACTOR INFLUENCING THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF MAYFLY NYMPHS

1942 • 33 citations

Methods for the Study of Stream Communities

1929 • 32 citations

The prospect before us

1953 • 28 citations

Le courant, facteur écologique et éthologique de la vie aquatique

1963 • 27 citations

On means and variances in aquatic food chains and recruitment to the fisheries

1987 • 23 citations

Ecology of Batrachospermum sp. (Rhodophyta) in Doe Run, Meade County, Kentucky

1963 • 21 citations

Quantitative Studies of Stream Bottom Foods

1934 • 21 citations

Biotic factors in running water

1962 • 21 citations

Baseleveling and Its Faunal Significance, with Illustrations from Southeastern United States

1901 • 17 citations

Factors Influencing Fish Food and Fish Production in Southwestern Streams

1938 • 16 citations

Production of bottom fauna in the Provo River, Utah

1951 • 16 citations

The Determination of the Food Grade of Streams

1939 • 13 citations

Community Structure and Species Co-Occurrence: A Basis for Developing Broader Generalizations

1986 • 12 citations

Fresh Water Algal Succession

1925 • 10 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations