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Recent Publications
2022
Zarri, L.J., E.P. Palkovacs, D.M. Post, N.O. Therkildsen, and A.S. Flecker. 2022. The evolutionary consequences of dams and other barriers for riverine fishes. BioScience, biac004, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac004
Flecker, A.S., Q. Shi, R.M. Almeida, H. Angarita, J.M. Gomes-Selman, R. García-Villacorta, S.A. Sethi., S.A. Thomas, N L. Poff, B.R. Forsberg, S.A. Heilpern, S.K. Hamilton, J.D. Abad, E.P. Anderson, N. Barros, I. Carolina Bernal, R. Bernstein, C.M. Cañas, O. Dangles, A.C. Encalada, A.S. Fleischmann, M. Goulding, J. Higgins, C. Jezequel, E.I. Larson, P.B. McIntyre, J.M. Melack, M. Montoya, T. Oberdorff, R. Paiva, G.Perez, B.H. Rappazzo, S. Steinschneider, S. Torres, M. Varese, M.T. Walter, X. Wu, Y. Xue, X.E. Zapata-Ríos, and C.P. Gomes. 2022. Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion. Science 375:753-760; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj4017
2021
Almeida, R.M., A.S. Fleischmann, J.P.F. Brêda, D.S. Cardoso, H. Angarita, W. Collischonn, B. Forsberg, R. García-Villacorta, S.K. Hamilton, P.M. Hannam, R. Paiva, N.L. Poff, S.A. Sethi, Q. Shi, C.P. Gomes, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower. Global Environmental Change 71: 102383; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102383
Heilpern, S.A., R. DeFries, A.S. Flecker, S. Sethi, M. Uriarte, and S. Naeem. 2021. Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk. Science Advances 7: eabf9967; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf9967.
Buchanan, B.P., S.A. Sethi, S. Cuppett, M. Lung, G. Jackman, L. Zarri, E. Duvall, J. Dietrich, P. Sullivan, A. Dominitz, J.A. Archibald, A. Flecker, and B.G. Rahm. 2021. A machine learning approach to identify barriers in stream networks demonstrates high prevalence of unmapped riverine dams. Journal of Environmental Management 302 (2022) 113952; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113952.
Larson, E.I., N.L. Poff, W.C. Funk, R.A. Harrington, B.C. Kondratieff, S.G. Morton, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. A unifying framework for analyzing temporal changes in functional and taxonomic diversity along disturbance gradients. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3503
Heilpern, S.A., K. Fiorella, C. Cañas, A.S. Flecker, L. Moya, S. Naeem, S. Sethi, M. Uriarte, and R. DeFries. 2021. Substituting wild fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition. Nature Food 2: 192–197; https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00242-8.
Leduc, A.O.H.C., S.A. Thomas, R.D. Bassar, A. López-Sepulcre, K. MacNeill, R. El-Sabaawi, D.N. Reznick, A.S. Flecker, and J. Travis. 2021. The experimental range extension of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) alters the metabolic activity of tropical streams. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04884-0
Boyero, L., J. Pérez, N. López-Rojo, A.M. Tonin, F. Correa-Araneda, R.G. Pearson, J. Bosch, R.J. Albariño, S. Anbalagan, L.A. Barmuta, L. Beesley, F.J. Burdon, A. Caliman, M. Callisto, I.C. Campbell, B.J. Cardinale, J.J. Casas, A.M. Chará-Serna, S. Ciapała, E. Chauvet, C. Colón-Gaud, A. Cornejo, A.M. Davis, M. Degebrodt, E.S. Dias, M.E. Díaz, M.M. Douglas, A.Elosegi, A.C. Encalada, E. de Eyto, R. Figueroa, A.S. Flecker, T. Fleituch, A. Frainer, J.S. França, E.A. García, G. García, P. García, M.O. Gessner, P.S. Giller, J.E. Gómez, S. Gómez, J.F. Gonçalves Jr., M.A.S. Graça, R.O. Hall Jr., N. Hamada, L.U. Hepp, C. Hui, D. Imazawa, T. Iwata, E.S.A. Junior, S. Kariuki, A. Landeira-Dabarca, M. Leal, K. Lehosmaa, C. M’Erimba, R. Marchant, R.T. Martins, F. Masese, M. Maul, B.G. McKie, A.O. Medeiros, J.A. Middleton, T. Muotka, J.N. Negishi, J. Pozo, A. Ramírez, R.S. Rezende, J.S. Richardson, J. Rincón, J. Rubio-Ríos, C. Serrano, A.R. Shaffer, F. Sheldon, C.M. Swan, N.S.D. Tenkiano, S.D. Tiegs, J.R. Tolod, M. Vernasky, A. Watson, M.J. Yegon, and C.M. Yule. 2021. Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on in stream decomposition. Science Advances 7: eabe7860; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe7860.
Twining, C., N.R. Razavi, J.T. Brenna, S. Dzielski, S. Gonzalez, P. Lawrence, L. Cleckner, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. Emergent freshwater insects serve as subsidies of methylmercury and beneficial fatty acids for riparian predators across an agricultural gradient. Environmental Science & Technology https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c07683.
Boyero, L., N. López-Rojo, A.M. Tonin, J. Pérez, F. Correa, R. Pearson, J. Bosch, R. Albariño, S. Anbalagan, L. Barmuta, A. Basaguren, F.J. Burdon, A. Caliman, M. Callisto, A. Calor, I. Campbell, B. Cardinale, J. Casas, A. Chará-Serna, E. Chauvet, S. Ciapala, C. Colón-Gaud, A. Cornejo, A. Davis, M. Degebrodt, E. Dias, M. Díaz, A. Encalada, M. Douglas, R. Figueroa, A. Flecker, T. Fleituch, E. García, G. García, P. García, M. Gessner, J. Gomez, S. Gomez, J. Gonçalves Jr., M.A.S. Graça, D. Gwinn, R. Hall Jr., N. Hamada, C. Hui, D. Imazawa, T. Iwata, S. Kariuki, A. Landeira, K. Laymon, M. Leal, R. Marchant, R. Martins, F. Masese, M. Maul, B. McKie, A. Medeiros, C. M’Erimba, J. Middleton, S. Monroy, T. Muotka, J. Negishi, A. Ramírez, J. Richardson, J. Rincón, J. Rubio-Ríos, R. Sarrmejane, F. Sheldon, A. Sitati, N. Tenkiano, S. Tiegs, J. Tolod, M. Vernasky, A. Watson, and C. Yule. 2021. Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics. Nature Communications 12:3700; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23930-2
Carvalho,, D.R., J.P. Sparks, A.S. Flecker, C.B.M. Alves, M.Z. Moreira, and P.S. Pompeu. 2021. Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05029-z
2020
Shah, A., H. Woods, J. Havird, A. Encalada, A. Flecker, W. Funk, J.M. Guayasamin, B. Kondratieff, N.L. Poff, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio and C. Ghalambor. 2020. Temperature-dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies. Global Change Biology doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15400
Rosero-López D., E.A. Cowen, M.T. Walter M.T., B. De Bièvre, D. González-Zeas, A.S. Flecker, R. Osorio, and O. Dangles. 2020. Design of a paired-weir system for experimental manipulation of environmental flows in streams. Journal of Ecohydraulics doi: 10.1080/24705357.2020.1830002
Zandonà, E., M. Moraes, V. Neres-Lima, C. Dalton, A. Flecker, and R. Mazzoni. 2020. Differences in nutrient mineralization between native and invasive grazing catfish during the invasion process. Austral Ecology doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12978
Rosero-López D., E.A. Cowen, M.T. Walter M.T., B. De Bièvre, D. González-Zeas, A.S. Flecker, R. Osorio, and O. Dangles. In press. Design of a paired-weir system for experimental manipulation of environmental flows in streams. Journal of Ecohydraulics
Zandonà, E., M. Moraes, V. Neres-Lima, C. Dalton, A. Flecker, and R. Mazzoni. In press. Differences in nutrient mineralization between native and invasive grazing catfish during the invasion process. Austral Ecology
Almeida, R.M., S.K. Hamilton, E.J. Rosi, N. Barros, C. Doria, A.S. Flecker, A. Fleischmann, A.J. Reisinger, and F. Roland. 2020. Hydropeaking operations of two run-of-river mega-dams alter downstream hydrology of the largest Amazon tributary. Frontiers in Environmental Science. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00120
López-Sepulcre, A., M. Bruneaux, S. Collins, R. El-Sabaawi, A.S Flecker, and S.A. Thomas. 2020. A new method to reconstruct quantitative food webs and nutrient flows from isotope tracer addition experiments. American Naturalist 195: 964–982; DOI: 10.1086/708546
Carvalho,, D.R., C.B.M. Alves, A.S. Flecker, J.P. Sparks, M.Z. Moreira, and P.S. Pompeu. 2020. Using δ15N of periphyton and fish to evaluate spatial and seasonal variation of anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in a polluted Brazilian river basin. Ecological Indicators 115. 106372; DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106372.
2019
Tiegs, S., D.M. Costello, M.W. Isken, G. Woodward, P.B. McIntyre, M.O. Gessner, E. Chauvet, N.A. Griffiths, A.S. Flecker, et al. 2019. Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Science Advances 5: eaav0486; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0486.
Hammerschlag, N., O.J. Schmitz, A.S. Flecker, K. Lafferty, A. Sih, T.B. Atwood, A.J. Gallagher, D.J. Irschick, R. Skubel, and S.J. Cooke. 2019. Ecosystem function and services of aquatic predators in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(4): 369-383; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.01.005 3
Simon, T., A. Binderup, A. Flecker, J. Gilliam, M. Marshall, S. Thomas, J. Travis, D. Reznick, and C. Pringle. 2019. Landscape patterns in top-down control of decomposition: omnivorous fish decouples a detrital-based trophic cascade. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2723
Carvalho, D.R., A.S. Flecker, C.B.M. Alves, J.P. Sparks, and P.S. Pompeu. 2019. Trophic responses to aquatic pollution of native and exotic livebearer fishes. Science of the Total Environment 681:503–515; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.092
Rosero-López, D., M.T. Walter, A.S. Flecker, P. Llorte, B. De Bièvre, D.P. González-Zeas, R. Calvez, and O. Dangles. 2019. Streamlined eco-engineering approach helps define environmental flows for tropical Andean headwaters. Freshwater Biology 64:1315-1325; https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13307
Atkinson, C.L., A. Alexiades, K.L. MacNeill, A.C. Encalada, S.A. Thomas, and A.S. Flecker. 2019. Nutrient recycling by insect and fish communities in high elevation tropical streams. Hydrobiologia 838:13-28; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-03973-9.
Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, D.W. Winkler, A.S. Flecker, A. and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2019. Aquatic and terrestrial resources are not nutritionally reciprocal for consumers. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13401.
González-Zeas, D., D. Rosero-López, M.T. Walter, A. Flecker, P. Lloret, B. De Bièvre, T. Condom, and O. Dangles. 2019. Designing eco-friendly water intake portfolios in a stream network of the tropical Andes. Water Resources Research 55, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025190
Flecker, A.S., C.W. Twining, O.J. Schmitz, S.J. Cooke, and N. Hammerschlag. 2019. Aquatic predators influence micronutrients: important but understudied. Trends in Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.07.006
Gomes, C., T. Dietterich, C. Barrett, Christopher, J. Conrad, B. Dilkina, S. Ermon, F. Fang, A. Farnsworth, A. Fern, X. Fern, D. Fink, D. Fisher, A. Flecker, D. Freund, A. Fuller, J. Gregoire, J. Hopcroft, S. Kelling, J.Z. Kolter, W. Powell, N. Sintov, J. Selker, B. Selman, D. Sheldon, D. Shmoys, M. Tambe, Milind, W.-K. Wong, C. Wood, X. Wu, Y. Xue, Yexiang, A. Yadav, A.-A. Yakubu, Abdul-Aziz, and M.L. Zeeman. 2019. Computational sustainability: computing for a better world and a sustainable future. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 62: 56-65; doi 10.1145/3339399
Almeida, R.M., Q. Shi, J.M. Gomes-Selman, H. Angarita, N. Barros, B.R. Forsberg, R. García-Villacorta, S.K. Hamilton, J.M. Melack, M. Montoya, G. Perez, S.A. Sethi, C.P. Gomes, and A.S. Flecker. 2019. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with optimal dam planning. Nature Communications 10: 4281; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12179-5.
Encalada, A.C., A.S. Flecker, N.L. Poff, E. Suárez, G.A. Herrera-R., B. Ríos-Touma, S. Jumani, E.I. Larson, and E.P. Anderson. 2019. A global perspective on tropical montane rivers. Science 365:1124-1129; DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1682.
Booth, M., N. Hairston, and A. Flecker. 2019. Consumer movement dynamics as hidden drivers of stream habitat structure: suckers as ecosystem engineers on the night shift. Oikos. 10.1111/oik.06396.
Lessmann J., M.J. Troya, A.S. Flecker, W.C. Funk, J.M. Guayasamin, V. Ochoa-Herrera, N.L. Poff, E. Suárez, and A.C. Encalada. 2019. Validating anthropogenic threat maps as a tool for assessing river ecological integrity in Andean–Amazon basins. PeerJ 7 e8060 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8060
2018
Wu, X., J. Gomes-Selman, Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. García-Villacorta, E. Anderson, S. Sethi, S. Steinschneider, A. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently Approximating the Pareto Frontier: Hydropower Dam Placement in the Amazon Basin. Proc. Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2–7 February 2018; pp. 849–858.
Dalton, C.M., Tracy, K.E., N.G. Hairston, Jr., and A.S. Flecker. 2018. Disentangling the roles of predation risk and food deprivation in the nitrogen metabolism of consumers. Ecology. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2132.
Winemiller, K.O., M. Fujiwara, E. Cunha, A.A. Agostinho, L.C. Gomes, A.S. Flecker, and S.A. Sethi. 2018. Designer flows for the Tonle Sap – good idea but wrong recommendation. Science eLetter. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/eaao1053/tab-e-letters
Poff, N.L., E. Larson, P. Salerno, S. Morton, B. Kondratieff, A. Flecker, K. Zamudio, W.C. Funk. 2018. Extreme streams: Species persistence mechanisms and evolutionary change in montane stream insect populations across a flood disturbance gradient. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.12918.
Atkinson, C.L., A. Encalada, A. Rugenski, S. Thomas, A. Landeira-Dabarca, L. Poff, and A. Flecker. 2018. Determinants of food resource assimilation by stream insects along a tropical elevation gradient. Oecologia. 187:731-744. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4142-2.
Gomes-Selman, J.M., Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. Garcia-Villacorta, A.S. Flecker and C. Gomes. 2018. Boosting efficiency for computing the Pareto Frontier on tree structured networks. Proc. 15th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research. CPAIOR 2018: 263-279.
Shi, Q., J.M. Gomes-Selman, R. García-Villacorta, S. Sethi, A.S. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently optimizing for dendritic connectivity on tree-structured networks in a multi-objective framework. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. COMPASS 2018: 26:1-26:8; https://doi.org/10.1145/3209811.3209878.
Larson, E.I., N.L. Poff, C.L. Atkinson, and A.S. Flecker. 2018. Extreme flooding decreases stream consumer autochthony by increasing detrital resource availability. Freshwater Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13177.
Polato, N.R., B.A. Gill, A.A. Shah, M.M. Gray, K.L. Casner, A. Barthelet, P.W. Messer, M. Simmons, J.M. Guayasamin, A.C. Encalada, B.C. Kondratieff, A.S. Flecker, S.A. Thomas, C.K. Ghalambor, N.L. Poff, W.C. Funk, and K. R. Zamudio.. 2018. Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 12471-12476; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809326115.
2017
Alexiades, A.V., A.S. Flecker, and C.E. Kraft. 2017. Nonnative fish stocking alters stream ecosystem nutrient dynamics. Ecological Applications 27:956-965. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1498.
Rubio-Gracia, F., D. Almeid, Berta Bonet, F. Casals, C. Espinosa, A.S. Flecker, E. García-Berthou, E. Martí, B.-A. Tuulaikhuu, A. Vila-Gispert, L. Zamora, and H. Guasch. 2017. Combined effects of hydrologic alteration and cyprinid fish in mediating biogeochemical processes in a Mediterranean stream. Science of the Total Environment 601–602 (2017) 1217–1225. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.287.
Polato, N., M. Gray, B. Gill, K. Anderson, C. Becker, A. Flecker, B. Kondratieff, A. Encalada, N. Poff, W.C. Funk, and K. Zamudio. 2017. Genetic diversity and gene flow decline with elevation in montane mayflies. Heredity 119, 107–116; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2017.23
Shah, A., B. Gill, A. Encalada, A. Flecker, C. Funk, J. Guayasamin, B. Kondratieff, N.L. Poff, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and C. Ghalambor. 2017. Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude. Functional Ecology 31:2118-2127; DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12906.
Simon, T., R. Bassar, A. Binderup, A. Flecker, M. Freeman, J. Gilliam, M. Marshall, J. Travis, D. Reznick, and C. Pringle. 2017. Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters stream ecosystem structure at landscape scales despite high environmental variability. Copeia, 105(3): 504-513.
Vanni, M., P. McIntyre, D. Arnott, J. Benstead, D. Berg, Å. Brabrand, S. Brosse, P. Bukaveckas, A. Caliman, K. Capps, L. Carneiro, N. Chadwick, A. Christian, A. Clarke, J. Conroy, W. Cross, D. Culver, C. Dalton, J. Devine, L. Domine, M. Evans-White, B. Faafeng, A. Flecker, K. Gido, C. Godinot, R. Guariento, S. Haertel-Borer, R. Hall, Jr., R. Henry, B. Herwig, B. Hicks, K. Higgins, J. Hood, M. Hopton, T. Ikeda, W. James, H. Jansen, C. Johnson, B. Koch, G. Lamberti, S. Lessard-Pilon, J. Maerz, M. Mather, R. McManamay, J. Milanovich, D. Morgan, J. Moslemi, R. Naddafi, J. Nilssen, M. Pagano, A. Pilati, D. Post, M. Roopin, A. Rugenski, M. Schaus, J. Shostell, G. Small, C. Solomon, S. Sterrett, Ø. Strand, M. Tarvainen, J. Taylor, L. Torres-Gerald, C. Turner, J. Urabe, S. Uye, A.M. Ventelä, S. Villéger, M. Whiles, F. Wilhelm, H. Wilson, M. Xenopoulos, and K. Zimmer. 2017. A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1792.
Zandonà, E., C. Dalton, R. El-Sabaawi, J. Howard, M. Marshall, S. Kilham, D. Reznick, J. Travis, T. Kohler, A. Flecker, S. Thomas, and C. Pringle. 2017. Population variation in the trophic niche of the Trinidadian guppy from different predation regimes. Scientific Reports 7: 5770; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06163-6
Boyero, L., M.A.S. Graça, A.M.Tonin, J. Perez, , A.J. Swafford, V. Ferreira, A. Landeira, M.A. Alexandrou, M.O. Gessner, B.G. Mckie, R.J. Albariño, L.A. Barmuta, M. Callisto, J. Chará, E. Chauvet, C. Colón-Gaud, D. Dudgeon, A.C. Encalada, R. Figueroa, A.S. Flecker, T. Fleituch, A. Frainer , J.F. Gonçalves Jr, J.E. Helson, T. Iwata, J. Mathooko, C. M’Erimba, C.M. Pringle, A. Ramírez, C.M. Swan, C.M. Yule, and R.G. Pearson. 2017. Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude. Scientific Reports 7: 10562; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-10640-3.
Norman, B., M. Whiles, S. Collins, A. Flecker, S. Hamilton, S. Johnson, Sherri, E. Rosi-Marshall, L. Ashkenas, W. Bowden, C. Crenshaw, T. Crowl, W. Dodds, R. Hall, Jr., R. El-Sabaawi, N. Griffiths, E. Martí, W. McDowell, S. Peterson, H. Rantala, T. Riis, K. Simon, J. Tank, S. Thomas, D. von Schiller, and J. Webster, Jackson. 2017. Drivers of nitrogen transfer efficiencies in stream food webs across continents. Ecology 98: 3044–3055; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2009.
Dalton, C.M., R.W. El-Sabaawi, D.C. Honeyfield, S.K. Auer, D.N. Reznick, and A.S. Flecker. 2017. The influence of dietary and whole-body nutrient content on the excretion of a vertebrate consumer. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0187931. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0187931.
Twining, C.W., P. Lawrence, D.W. Winkler, A.S. Flecker, and J.T. Brenna. 2017. Taking the short- or long-chain route: conversion efficiency of alpha linolenic acid to long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in aerial insectivore chicks. bioRxiv 155499; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/155499.
Twining, C.W., D.C. Josephson, C.E. Kraft, J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, and A.S. Flecker. 2017. Limited seasonal variation in food quality and foodweb structure in an Adirondack stream: insights from fatty acids. Freshwater Science 36:877-892.
Twining, C., Lawrence, P., Winkler, D., Flecker, A. and J. Brenna. 2017. Conversion efficiency of alpha linolenic acid to omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids in aerial insectivore chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology 2017: jeb.165373; doi: 10.1242/jeb.165373.
2016
Auerbach, D.A., Z. Easton, M.T. Walter, A.S. Flecker, and D.G. Fuka. 2016. Evaluating weather observations and the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis as inputs for hydrologic modeling in the tropics. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10860
Boyero, L., R. Pearson, C. Hui, J. Perez, M. Alexandrou, M. Gessner, M. Graça, B. Cardinale, R. Albariño, M. Arunachalam, L. Barmuta, A. Boulton, A. Bruder, M. Callisto, E. Chauvet, R. Death, D. Dudgeon, A. Encalada, V. Ferreira, R. Figueroa, A. Flecker, J.F. Gonçalves, Jr., T. Iwata, T. Jinggut, J. Mathooko, C. Mathuriau, C. M'Erimba, M. Moretti, C. Pringle, A. Ramirez, L. Ratnarajah, J. Rincon, and C. Yule. 2016. Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global-scale study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283 20152664; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2664.
Gill, B., B. Kondratieff, K. Casner, A.Encalada, A. Flecker, D. Gannon, C. Ghalambor, J. Guayasamin, L. Poff, M. Simmons, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and W.K. Funk. 2016. Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the ‘Mountain passes are higher in the tropics Hypothesis’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160552; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0553.
Buchanan, B.P., Auerbach, D.A., R.A. McManamay, A.S. Flecker, J. Taylor, J A. Archibald, D.G. Fuka, and M.T. Walter. 2016. Environmental flows in the context of unconventional natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.1425
Collins, S.M., S.A. Thomas, T. Heatherly II, K.L. MacNeill, A. Leduc, A. López-Sepulcre, B. Lamphere, R.W. El-Sabaawi, D.N. Reznick, C.M. Pringle, and A.S. Flecker. 2016. Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach. Ecology 97: 3154–3166; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1530.
Smith, J., D.A. Auerbach, K.W. Flessa, A.S. Flecker, and G. Dietl. 2016. Fossil clam shells reveal unintended carbon cycling consequences of Colorado River management. Royal Society Open Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160170.
Lessmann, J., J.M. Guayasamin, K.L. Casner, A.S. Flecker, W.C. Funk, C.K. Ghalambor, B.A. Gill, I. Jácome-Negrete, B.C. Kondratieff, L.N. Poff, J. Schreckinger, S.A. Thomas, E. Toral-Contreras, K.R. Zamudio and A.C. Encalada. 2016. Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts, Neotropical Biodiversity, 2:1, 99-114, DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1222189
2015
Sullam, K.E., C.M. Dalton, J.A. Russell, S.S. Kilham, R. El-Sabaawi, D.P. German, and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Changes in digestive traits and body nutritional composition accommodate a trophic niche shift in Trinidadian guppies. Oecologia 177:245–257; DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3158-5.
Sullam, K.E., B.E. R. Rubin, C.M. Dalton, S.S. Kilham, A.S. Flecker, J.A. Russell. 2015. Divergence across diet, time and populations rules out parallel evolution in the gut microbiomes of Trinidadian guppies. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.231.
El-Sabaawi, R., R. Bassar, C. Rakowski, S. Thomas, M. Marshall, C. Pringle, B. Bryan, D. Reznick, and A. Flecker. 2015. Intraspecific phenotypic differences in fish affect ecosystem processes as much as bottom-up factors. Oikos 124: 1181–1191; doi: 10.1111/oik.01769.
Boyero, L. R.G. Pearson, M.O. Gessner, D. Dudgeon, A. Ramírez, C.M. Yule, M. Callisto, C.M. Pringle, A.C. Encalada, M. Arunachalam, J. Mathooko, J.E. Helson, J. Rincón, A. Bruder, A. Cornejo, A.S. Flecker, C. Mathuriau, C. M’Erimba, J.F. Gonçalves, Jr., and M. Moretti. 2015. Leaf litter breakdown in tropical streams: is variability the norm? Freshwater Science 34: 759-769; doi: 10.1086/681093.
Bassar, R.D., T. Heatherly II, M.C. Marshall, S.A. Thomas, A.S. Flecker, and D.N. Reznick. 2015. Population size structure dependent fitness and ecosystem consequences in Trinidadian guppies. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 955–968 doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12353.
Capps, K. A. and A.S. Flecker. 2015. High impact of low-trophic position invaders: non-native grazers alter the quality and quantity of basal food resources. Freshwater Science 34:784-796.
Taylor, J.M., M.J. Vanni and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Top-down and bottom-up interactions in freshwater ecosystems: emerging complexities. Pp. 55-85 In: Hanley, T.C. and K.J. La Pierre. Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA.
Collins, S.M., T.J. Koher, S.A. Thomas, W.W. Fetzer and A.S. Flecker. 2015. The importance of terrestrial subsidies in stream food webs varies along a stream size gradient. Oikos doi:10.1111/ oik.07213.
Collins, S.M., J.P. Sparks, S.A. Thomas, S.A. Wheatley and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Light availability alters the importance of bacterial carbon in headwater stream food webs. Ecosystems doi: 10.1007/s10021-015-9940-3.
Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, N.G. Hairston Jr., and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Highly unsaturated fatty acids in nature: what we know and what we need to learn. Oikos doi: 10.1111/oik.02910.
Auerbach, D. A., B.P. Buchanan, A.V. Alexiades, E.P. Anderson, A.C. Encalada, E.I. Larson, R.A. McManamay, G.L. Poe, M.T. Walter, and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Towards catchment classification in data-scarce regions. Ecohydrology doi: 10.1002/eco.1721.
Zarri, L.J., E.P. Palkovacs, D.M. Post, N.O. Therkildsen, and A.S. Flecker. 2022. The evolutionary consequences of dams and other barriers for riverine fishes. BioScience, biac004, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac004
Flecker, A.S., Q. Shi, R.M. Almeida, H. Angarita, J.M. Gomes-Selman, R. García-Villacorta, S.A. Sethi., S.A. Thomas, N L. Poff, B.R. Forsberg, S.A. Heilpern, S.K. Hamilton, J.D. Abad, E.P. Anderson, N. Barros, I. Carolina Bernal, R. Bernstein, C.M. Cañas, O. Dangles, A.C. Encalada, A.S. Fleischmann, M. Goulding, J. Higgins, C. Jezequel, E.I. Larson, P.B. McIntyre, J.M. Melack, M. Montoya, T. Oberdorff, R. Paiva, G.Perez, B.H. Rappazzo, S. Steinschneider, S. Torres, M. Varese, M.T. Walter, X. Wu, Y. Xue, X.E. Zapata-Ríos, and C.P. Gomes. 2022. Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion. Science 375:753-760; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj4017
2021
Almeida, R.M., A.S. Fleischmann, J.P.F. Brêda, D.S. Cardoso, H. Angarita, W. Collischonn, B. Forsberg, R. García-Villacorta, S.K. Hamilton, P.M. Hannam, R. Paiva, N.L. Poff, S.A. Sethi, Q. Shi, C.P. Gomes, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. Climate change may impair electricity generation and economic viability of future Amazon hydropower. Global Environmental Change 71: 102383; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102383
Heilpern, S.A., R. DeFries, A.S. Flecker, S. Sethi, M. Uriarte, and S. Naeem. 2021. Declining diversity of wild-caught species puts dietary nutrient supplies at risk. Science Advances 7: eabf9967; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf9967.
Buchanan, B.P., S.A. Sethi, S. Cuppett, M. Lung, G. Jackman, L. Zarri, E. Duvall, J. Dietrich, P. Sullivan, A. Dominitz, J.A. Archibald, A. Flecker, and B.G. Rahm. 2021. A machine learning approach to identify barriers in stream networks demonstrates high prevalence of unmapped riverine dams. Journal of Environmental Management 302 (2022) 113952; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113952.
Larson, E.I., N.L. Poff, W.C. Funk, R.A. Harrington, B.C. Kondratieff, S.G. Morton, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. A unifying framework for analyzing temporal changes in functional and taxonomic diversity along disturbance gradients. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3503
Heilpern, S.A., K. Fiorella, C. Cañas, A.S. Flecker, L. Moya, S. Naeem, S. Sethi, M. Uriarte, and R. DeFries. 2021. Substituting wild fisheries with aquaculture and chicken undermines human nutrition. Nature Food 2: 192–197; https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-021-00242-8.
Leduc, A.O.H.C., S.A. Thomas, R.D. Bassar, A. López-Sepulcre, K. MacNeill, R. El-Sabaawi, D.N. Reznick, A.S. Flecker, and J. Travis. 2021. The experimental range extension of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) alters the metabolic activity of tropical streams. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04884-0
Boyero, L., J. Pérez, N. López-Rojo, A.M. Tonin, F. Correa-Araneda, R.G. Pearson, J. Bosch, R.J. Albariño, S. Anbalagan, L.A. Barmuta, L. Beesley, F.J. Burdon, A. Caliman, M. Callisto, I.C. Campbell, B.J. Cardinale, J.J. Casas, A.M. Chará-Serna, S. Ciapała, E. Chauvet, C. Colón-Gaud, A. Cornejo, A.M. Davis, M. Degebrodt, E.S. Dias, M.E. Díaz, M.M. Douglas, A.Elosegi, A.C. Encalada, E. de Eyto, R. Figueroa, A.S. Flecker, T. Fleituch, A. Frainer, J.S. França, E.A. García, G. García, P. García, M.O. Gessner, P.S. Giller, J.E. Gómez, S. Gómez, J.F. Gonçalves Jr., M.A.S. Graça, R.O. Hall Jr., N. Hamada, L.U. Hepp, C. Hui, D. Imazawa, T. Iwata, E.S.A. Junior, S. Kariuki, A. Landeira-Dabarca, M. Leal, K. Lehosmaa, C. M’Erimba, R. Marchant, R.T. Martins, F. Masese, M. Maul, B.G. McKie, A.O. Medeiros, J.A. Middleton, T. Muotka, J.N. Negishi, J. Pozo, A. Ramírez, R.S. Rezende, J.S. Richardson, J. Rincón, J. Rubio-Ríos, C. Serrano, A.R. Shaffer, F. Sheldon, C.M. Swan, N.S.D. Tenkiano, S.D. Tiegs, J.R. Tolod, M. Vernasky, A. Watson, M.J. Yegon, and C.M. Yule. 2021. Latitude dictates plant diversity effects on in stream decomposition. Science Advances 7: eabe7860; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe7860.
Twining, C., N.R. Razavi, J.T. Brenna, S. Dzielski, S. Gonzalez, P. Lawrence, L. Cleckner, and A.S. Flecker. 2021. Emergent freshwater insects serve as subsidies of methylmercury and beneficial fatty acids for riparian predators across an agricultural gradient. Environmental Science & Technology https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c07683.
Boyero, L., N. López-Rojo, A.M. Tonin, J. Pérez, F. Correa, R. Pearson, J. Bosch, R. Albariño, S. Anbalagan, L. Barmuta, A. Basaguren, F.J. Burdon, A. Caliman, M. Callisto, A. Calor, I. Campbell, B. Cardinale, J. Casas, A. Chará-Serna, E. Chauvet, S. Ciapala, C. Colón-Gaud, A. Cornejo, A. Davis, M. Degebrodt, E. Dias, M. Díaz, A. Encalada, M. Douglas, R. Figueroa, A. Flecker, T. Fleituch, E. García, G. García, P. García, M. Gessner, J. Gomez, S. Gomez, J. Gonçalves Jr., M.A.S. Graça, D. Gwinn, R. Hall Jr., N. Hamada, C. Hui, D. Imazawa, T. Iwata, S. Kariuki, A. Landeira, K. Laymon, M. Leal, R. Marchant, R. Martins, F. Masese, M. Maul, B. McKie, A. Medeiros, C. M’Erimba, J. Middleton, S. Monroy, T. Muotka, J. Negishi, A. Ramírez, J. Richardson, J. Rincón, J. Rubio-Ríos, R. Sarrmejane, F. Sheldon, A. Sitati, N. Tenkiano, S. Tiegs, J. Tolod, M. Vernasky, A. Watson, and C. Yule. 2021. Impacts of detritivore diversity loss on instream decomposition are greatest in the tropics. Nature Communications 12:3700; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23930-2
Carvalho,, D.R., J.P. Sparks, A.S. Flecker, C.B.M. Alves, M.Z. Moreira, and P.S. Pompeu. 2021. Nitrogen pollution promotes changes in the niche space of fish communities. Oecologia https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05029-z
2020
Shah, A., H. Woods, J. Havird, A. Encalada, A. Flecker, W. Funk, J.M. Guayasamin, B. Kondratieff, N.L. Poff, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio and C. Ghalambor. 2020. Temperature-dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies. Global Change Biology doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15400
Rosero-López D., E.A. Cowen, M.T. Walter M.T., B. De Bièvre, D. González-Zeas, A.S. Flecker, R. Osorio, and O. Dangles. 2020. Design of a paired-weir system for experimental manipulation of environmental flows in streams. Journal of Ecohydraulics doi: 10.1080/24705357.2020.1830002
Zandonà, E., M. Moraes, V. Neres-Lima, C. Dalton, A. Flecker, and R. Mazzoni. 2020. Differences in nutrient mineralization between native and invasive grazing catfish during the invasion process. Austral Ecology doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aec.12978
Rosero-López D., E.A. Cowen, M.T. Walter M.T., B. De Bièvre, D. González-Zeas, A.S. Flecker, R. Osorio, and O. Dangles. In press. Design of a paired-weir system for experimental manipulation of environmental flows in streams. Journal of Ecohydraulics
Zandonà, E., M. Moraes, V. Neres-Lima, C. Dalton, A. Flecker, and R. Mazzoni. In press. Differences in nutrient mineralization between native and invasive grazing catfish during the invasion process. Austral Ecology
Almeida, R.M., S.K. Hamilton, E.J. Rosi, N. Barros, C. Doria, A.S. Flecker, A. Fleischmann, A.J. Reisinger, and F. Roland. 2020. Hydropeaking operations of two run-of-river mega-dams alter downstream hydrology of the largest Amazon tributary. Frontiers in Environmental Science. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00120
López-Sepulcre, A., M. Bruneaux, S. Collins, R. El-Sabaawi, A.S Flecker, and S.A. Thomas. 2020. A new method to reconstruct quantitative food webs and nutrient flows from isotope tracer addition experiments. American Naturalist 195: 964–982; DOI: 10.1086/708546
Carvalho,, D.R., C.B.M. Alves, A.S. Flecker, J.P. Sparks, M.Z. Moreira, and P.S. Pompeu. 2020. Using δ15N of periphyton and fish to evaluate spatial and seasonal variation of anthropogenic nitrogen inputs in a polluted Brazilian river basin. Ecological Indicators 115. 106372; DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106372.
2019
Tiegs, S., D.M. Costello, M.W. Isken, G. Woodward, P.B. McIntyre, M.O. Gessner, E. Chauvet, N.A. Griffiths, A.S. Flecker, et al. 2019. Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Science Advances 5: eaav0486; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0486.
Hammerschlag, N., O.J. Schmitz, A.S. Flecker, K. Lafferty, A. Sih, T.B. Atwood, A.J. Gallagher, D.J. Irschick, R. Skubel, and S.J. Cooke. 2019. Ecosystem function and services of aquatic predators in the Anthropocene. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34(4): 369-383; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.01.005 3
Simon, T., A. Binderup, A. Flecker, J. Gilliam, M. Marshall, S. Thomas, J. Travis, D. Reznick, and C. Pringle. 2019. Landscape patterns in top-down control of decomposition: omnivorous fish decouples a detrital-based trophic cascade. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2723
Carvalho, D.R., A.S. Flecker, C.B.M. Alves, J.P. Sparks, and P.S. Pompeu. 2019. Trophic responses to aquatic pollution of native and exotic livebearer fishes. Science of the Total Environment 681:503–515; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.092
Rosero-López, D., M.T. Walter, A.S. Flecker, P. Llorte, B. De Bièvre, D.P. González-Zeas, R. Calvez, and O. Dangles. 2019. Streamlined eco-engineering approach helps define environmental flows for tropical Andean headwaters. Freshwater Biology 64:1315-1325; https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13307
Atkinson, C.L., A. Alexiades, K.L. MacNeill, A.C. Encalada, S.A. Thomas, and A.S. Flecker. 2019. Nutrient recycling by insect and fish communities in high elevation tropical streams. Hydrobiologia 838:13-28; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-019-03973-9.
Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, D.W. Winkler, A.S. Flecker, A. and N.G. Hairston, Jr. 2019. Aquatic and terrestrial resources are not nutritionally reciprocal for consumers. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13401.
González-Zeas, D., D. Rosero-López, M.T. Walter, A. Flecker, P. Lloret, B. De Bièvre, T. Condom, and O. Dangles. 2019. Designing eco-friendly water intake portfolios in a stream network of the tropical Andes. Water Resources Research 55, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR025190
Flecker, A.S., C.W. Twining, O.J. Schmitz, S.J. Cooke, and N. Hammerschlag. 2019. Aquatic predators influence micronutrients: important but understudied. Trends in Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.07.006
Gomes, C., T. Dietterich, C. Barrett, Christopher, J. Conrad, B. Dilkina, S. Ermon, F. Fang, A. Farnsworth, A. Fern, X. Fern, D. Fink, D. Fisher, A. Flecker, D. Freund, A. Fuller, J. Gregoire, J. Hopcroft, S. Kelling, J.Z. Kolter, W. Powell, N. Sintov, J. Selker, B. Selman, D. Sheldon, D. Shmoys, M. Tambe, Milind, W.-K. Wong, C. Wood, X. Wu, Y. Xue, Yexiang, A. Yadav, A.-A. Yakubu, Abdul-Aziz, and M.L. Zeeman. 2019. Computational sustainability: computing for a better world and a sustainable future. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery 62: 56-65; doi 10.1145/3339399
Almeida, R.M., Q. Shi, J.M. Gomes-Selman, H. Angarita, N. Barros, B.R. Forsberg, R. García-Villacorta, S.K. Hamilton, J.M. Melack, M. Montoya, G. Perez, S.A. Sethi, C.P. Gomes, and A.S. Flecker. 2019. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with optimal dam planning. Nature Communications 10: 4281; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12179-5.
Encalada, A.C., A.S. Flecker, N.L. Poff, E. Suárez, G.A. Herrera-R., B. Ríos-Touma, S. Jumani, E.I. Larson, and E.P. Anderson. 2019. A global perspective on tropical montane rivers. Science 365:1124-1129; DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1682.
Booth, M., N. Hairston, and A. Flecker. 2019. Consumer movement dynamics as hidden drivers of stream habitat structure: suckers as ecosystem engineers on the night shift. Oikos. 10.1111/oik.06396.
Lessmann J., M.J. Troya, A.S. Flecker, W.C. Funk, J.M. Guayasamin, V. Ochoa-Herrera, N.L. Poff, E. Suárez, and A.C. Encalada. 2019. Validating anthropogenic threat maps as a tool for assessing river ecological integrity in Andean–Amazon basins. PeerJ 7 e8060 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8060
2018
Wu, X., J. Gomes-Selman, Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. García-Villacorta, E. Anderson, S. Sethi, S. Steinschneider, A. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently Approximating the Pareto Frontier: Hydropower Dam Placement in the Amazon Basin. Proc. Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2–7 February 2018; pp. 849–858.
Dalton, C.M., Tracy, K.E., N.G. Hairston, Jr., and A.S. Flecker. 2018. Disentangling the roles of predation risk and food deprivation in the nitrogen metabolism of consumers. Ecology. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2132.
Winemiller, K.O., M. Fujiwara, E. Cunha, A.A. Agostinho, L.C. Gomes, A.S. Flecker, and S.A. Sethi. 2018. Designer flows for the Tonle Sap – good idea but wrong recommendation. Science eLetter. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6368/eaao1053/tab-e-letters
Poff, N.L., E. Larson, P. Salerno, S. Morton, B. Kondratieff, A. Flecker, K. Zamudio, W.C. Funk. 2018. Extreme streams: Species persistence mechanisms and evolutionary change in montane stream insect populations across a flood disturbance gradient. Ecology Letters doi:10.1111/ele.12918.
Atkinson, C.L., A. Encalada, A. Rugenski, S. Thomas, A. Landeira-Dabarca, L. Poff, and A. Flecker. 2018. Determinants of food resource assimilation by stream insects along a tropical elevation gradient. Oecologia. 187:731-744. doi: 10.1007/s00442-018-4142-2.
Gomes-Selman, J.M., Q. Shi, Y. Xue, R. Garcia-Villacorta, A.S. Flecker and C. Gomes. 2018. Boosting efficiency for computing the Pareto Frontier on tree structured networks. Proc. 15th International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research. CPAIOR 2018: 263-279.
Shi, Q., J.M. Gomes-Selman, R. García-Villacorta, S. Sethi, A.S. Flecker, and C.P. Gomes. 2018. Efficiently optimizing for dendritic connectivity on tree-structured networks in a multi-objective framework. Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. COMPASS 2018: 26:1-26:8; https://doi.org/10.1145/3209811.3209878.
Larson, E.I., N.L. Poff, C.L. Atkinson, and A.S. Flecker. 2018. Extreme flooding decreases stream consumer autochthony by increasing detrital resource availability. Freshwater Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13177.
Polato, N.R., B.A. Gill, A.A. Shah, M.M. Gray, K.L. Casner, A. Barthelet, P.W. Messer, M. Simmons, J.M. Guayasamin, A.C. Encalada, B.C. Kondratieff, A.S. Flecker, S.A. Thomas, C.K. Ghalambor, N.L. Poff, W.C. Funk, and K. R. Zamudio.. 2018. Narrow thermal tolerance and low dispersal drive higher speciation in tropical mountains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115: 12471-12476; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1809326115.
2017
Alexiades, A.V., A.S. Flecker, and C.E. Kraft. 2017. Nonnative fish stocking alters stream ecosystem nutrient dynamics. Ecological Applications 27:956-965. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1498.
Rubio-Gracia, F., D. Almeid, Berta Bonet, F. Casals, C. Espinosa, A.S. Flecker, E. García-Berthou, E. Martí, B.-A. Tuulaikhuu, A. Vila-Gispert, L. Zamora, and H. Guasch. 2017. Combined effects of hydrologic alteration and cyprinid fish in mediating biogeochemical processes in a Mediterranean stream. Science of the Total Environment 601–602 (2017) 1217–1225. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.287.
Polato, N., M. Gray, B. Gill, K. Anderson, C. Becker, A. Flecker, B. Kondratieff, A. Encalada, N. Poff, W.C. Funk, and K. Zamudio. 2017. Genetic diversity and gene flow decline with elevation in montane mayflies. Heredity 119, 107–116; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2017.23
Shah, A., B. Gill, A. Encalada, A. Flecker, C. Funk, J. Guayasamin, B. Kondratieff, N.L. Poff, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and C. Ghalambor. 2017. Climate variability predicts thermal limits of aquatic insects across elevation and latitude. Functional Ecology 31:2118-2127; DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12906.
Simon, T., R. Bassar, A. Binderup, A. Flecker, M. Freeman, J. Gilliam, M. Marshall, J. Travis, D. Reznick, and C. Pringle. 2017. Local adaptation in Trinidadian guppies alters stream ecosystem structure at landscape scales despite high environmental variability. Copeia, 105(3): 504-513.
Vanni, M., P. McIntyre, D. Arnott, J. Benstead, D. Berg, Å. Brabrand, S. Brosse, P. Bukaveckas, A. Caliman, K. Capps, L. Carneiro, N. Chadwick, A. Christian, A. Clarke, J. Conroy, W. Cross, D. Culver, C. Dalton, J. Devine, L. Domine, M. Evans-White, B. Faafeng, A. Flecker, K. Gido, C. Godinot, R. Guariento, S. Haertel-Borer, R. Hall, Jr., R. Henry, B. Herwig, B. Hicks, K. Higgins, J. Hood, M. Hopton, T. Ikeda, W. James, H. Jansen, C. Johnson, B. Koch, G. Lamberti, S. Lessard-Pilon, J. Maerz, M. Mather, R. McManamay, J. Milanovich, D. Morgan, J. Moslemi, R. Naddafi, J. Nilssen, M. Pagano, A. Pilati, D. Post, M. Roopin, A. Rugenski, M. Schaus, J. Shostell, G. Small, C. Solomon, S. Sterrett, Ø. Strand, M. Tarvainen, J. Taylor, L. Torres-Gerald, C. Turner, J. Urabe, S. Uye, A.M. Ventelä, S. Villéger, M. Whiles, F. Wilhelm, H. Wilson, M. Xenopoulos, and K. Zimmer. 2017. A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1792.
Zandonà, E., C. Dalton, R. El-Sabaawi, J. Howard, M. Marshall, S. Kilham, D. Reznick, J. Travis, T. Kohler, A. Flecker, S. Thomas, and C. Pringle. 2017. Population variation in the trophic niche of the Trinidadian guppy from different predation regimes. Scientific Reports 7: 5770; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06163-6
Boyero, L., M.A.S. Graça, A.M.Tonin, J. Perez, , A.J. Swafford, V. Ferreira, A. Landeira, M.A. Alexandrou, M.O. Gessner, B.G. Mckie, R.J. Albariño, L.A. Barmuta, M. Callisto, J. Chará, E. Chauvet, C. Colón-Gaud, D. Dudgeon, A.C. Encalada, R. Figueroa, A.S. Flecker, T. Fleituch, A. Frainer , J.F. Gonçalves Jr, J.E. Helson, T. Iwata, J. Mathooko, C. M’Erimba, C.M. Pringle, A. Ramírez, C.M. Swan, C.M. Yule, and R.G. Pearson. 2017. Riparian plant litter quality increases with latitude. Scientific Reports 7: 10562; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-10640-3.
Norman, B., M. Whiles, S. Collins, A. Flecker, S. Hamilton, S. Johnson, Sherri, E. Rosi-Marshall, L. Ashkenas, W. Bowden, C. Crenshaw, T. Crowl, W. Dodds, R. Hall, Jr., R. El-Sabaawi, N. Griffiths, E. Martí, W. McDowell, S. Peterson, H. Rantala, T. Riis, K. Simon, J. Tank, S. Thomas, D. von Schiller, and J. Webster, Jackson. 2017. Drivers of nitrogen transfer efficiencies in stream food webs across continents. Ecology 98: 3044–3055; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2009.
Dalton, C.M., R.W. El-Sabaawi, D.C. Honeyfield, S.K. Auer, D.N. Reznick, and A.S. Flecker. 2017. The influence of dietary and whole-body nutrient content on the excretion of a vertebrate consumer. PLoS ONE 12(11): e0187931. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0187931.
Twining, C.W., P. Lawrence, D.W. Winkler, A.S. Flecker, and J.T. Brenna. 2017. Taking the short- or long-chain route: conversion efficiency of alpha linolenic acid to long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in aerial insectivore chicks. bioRxiv 155499; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/155499.
Twining, C.W., D.C. Josephson, C.E. Kraft, J.T. Brenna, P. Lawrence, and A.S. Flecker. 2017. Limited seasonal variation in food quality and foodweb structure in an Adirondack stream: insights from fatty acids. Freshwater Science 36:877-892.
Twining, C., Lawrence, P., Winkler, D., Flecker, A. and J. Brenna. 2017. Conversion efficiency of alpha linolenic acid to omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids in aerial insectivore chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology 2017: jeb.165373; doi: 10.1242/jeb.165373.
2016
Auerbach, D.A., Z. Easton, M.T. Walter, A.S. Flecker, and D.G. Fuka. 2016. Evaluating weather observations and the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis as inputs for hydrologic modeling in the tropics. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10860
Boyero, L., R. Pearson, C. Hui, J. Perez, M. Alexandrou, M. Gessner, M. Graça, B. Cardinale, R. Albariño, M. Arunachalam, L. Barmuta, A. Boulton, A. Bruder, M. Callisto, E. Chauvet, R. Death, D. Dudgeon, A. Encalada, V. Ferreira, R. Figueroa, A. Flecker, J.F. Gonçalves, Jr., T. Iwata, T. Jinggut, J. Mathooko, C. Mathuriau, C. M'Erimba, M. Moretti, C. Pringle, A. Ramirez, L. Ratnarajah, J. Rincon, and C. Yule. 2016. Biotic and abiotic variables influencing plant litter breakdown in streams: a global-scale study. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 283 20152664; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2664.
Gill, B., B. Kondratieff, K. Casner, A.Encalada, A. Flecker, D. Gannon, C. Ghalambor, J. Guayasamin, L. Poff, M. Simmons, S. Thomas, K. Zamudio, and W.K. Funk. 2016. Cryptic species diversity reveals biogeographic support for the ‘Mountain passes are higher in the tropics Hypothesis’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283: 20160552; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0553.
Buchanan, B.P., Auerbach, D.A., R.A. McManamay, A.S. Flecker, J. Taylor, J A. Archibald, D.G. Fuka, and M.T. Walter. 2016. Environmental flows in the context of unconventional natural gas development in the Marcellus Shale. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.1425
Collins, S.M., S.A. Thomas, T. Heatherly II, K.L. MacNeill, A. Leduc, A. López-Sepulcre, B. Lamphere, R.W. El-Sabaawi, D.N. Reznick, C.M. Pringle, and A.S. Flecker. 2016. Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach. Ecology 97: 3154–3166; DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1530.
Smith, J., D.A. Auerbach, K.W. Flessa, A.S. Flecker, and G. Dietl. 2016. Fossil clam shells reveal unintended carbon cycling consequences of Colorado River management. Royal Society Open Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160170.
Lessmann, J., J.M. Guayasamin, K.L. Casner, A.S. Flecker, W.C. Funk, C.K. Ghalambor, B.A. Gill, I. Jácome-Negrete, B.C. Kondratieff, L.N. Poff, J. Schreckinger, S.A. Thomas, E. Toral-Contreras, K.R. Zamudio and A.C. Encalada. 2016. Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts, Neotropical Biodiversity, 2:1, 99-114, DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1222189
2015
Sullam, K.E., C.M. Dalton, J.A. Russell, S.S. Kilham, R. El-Sabaawi, D.P. German, and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Changes in digestive traits and body nutritional composition accommodate a trophic niche shift in Trinidadian guppies. Oecologia 177:245–257; DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3158-5.
Sullam, K.E., B.E. R. Rubin, C.M. Dalton, S.S. Kilham, A.S. Flecker, J.A. Russell. 2015. Divergence across diet, time and populations rules out parallel evolution in the gut microbiomes of Trinidadian guppies. International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal doi: 10.1038/ismej.2014.231.
El-Sabaawi, R., R. Bassar, C. Rakowski, S. Thomas, M. Marshall, C. Pringle, B. Bryan, D. Reznick, and A. Flecker. 2015. Intraspecific phenotypic differences in fish affect ecosystem processes as much as bottom-up factors. Oikos 124: 1181–1191; doi: 10.1111/oik.01769.
Boyero, L. R.G. Pearson, M.O. Gessner, D. Dudgeon, A. Ramírez, C.M. Yule, M. Callisto, C.M. Pringle, A.C. Encalada, M. Arunachalam, J. Mathooko, J.E. Helson, J. Rincón, A. Bruder, A. Cornejo, A.S. Flecker, C. Mathuriau, C. M’Erimba, J.F. Gonçalves, Jr., and M. Moretti. 2015. Leaf litter breakdown in tropical streams: is variability the norm? Freshwater Science 34: 759-769; doi: 10.1086/681093.
Bassar, R.D., T. Heatherly II, M.C. Marshall, S.A. Thomas, A.S. Flecker, and D.N. Reznick. 2015. Population size structure dependent fitness and ecosystem consequences in Trinidadian guppies. Journal of Animal Ecology 84: 955–968 doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12353.
Capps, K. A. and A.S. Flecker. 2015. High impact of low-trophic position invaders: non-native grazers alter the quality and quantity of basal food resources. Freshwater Science 34:784-796.
Taylor, J.M., M.J. Vanni and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Top-down and bottom-up interactions in freshwater ecosystems: emerging complexities. Pp. 55-85 In: Hanley, T.C. and K.J. La Pierre. Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA.
Collins, S.M., T.J. Koher, S.A. Thomas, W.W. Fetzer and A.S. Flecker. 2015. The importance of terrestrial subsidies in stream food webs varies along a stream size gradient. Oikos doi:10.1111/ oik.07213.
Collins, S.M., J.P. Sparks, S.A. Thomas, S.A. Wheatley and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Light availability alters the importance of bacterial carbon in headwater stream food webs. Ecosystems doi: 10.1007/s10021-015-9940-3.
Twining, C.W., J.T. Brenna, N.G. Hairston Jr., and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Highly unsaturated fatty acids in nature: what we know and what we need to learn. Oikos doi: 10.1111/oik.02910.
Auerbach, D. A., B.P. Buchanan, A.V. Alexiades, E.P. Anderson, A.C. Encalada, E.I. Larson, R.A. McManamay, G.L. Poe, M.T. Walter, and A.S. Flecker. 2015. Towards catchment classification in data-scarce regions. Ecohydrology doi: 10.1002/eco.1721.
