| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Detritivore Diversity or Dominant Species: What Drives Detrital Processing? |
2010 |
319 |
The role that biodiversity plays in maintaining ecosystem functioning has been debated for nearly two decades. Previous research suggested that a dominant species (Pycnopsyche gentilis) and not detritivore diversity determined leaf breakdown in a so... |
| Effects of a Low Head Dam on a Dominant Detritivore and Detrital Processing in a Headwater Stream |
2011 |
239 |
I evaluated the breakdown of yellow birch leaves in the presence and absence of P. gentilis using a leaf pack breakdown experiment. Leaf packs were placed in reaches above the dam where P. gentilis is present and below where it is essentially absent.... |
| Partner Control and Environmental Fouling in the Crayfish-Branchiobdellid Symbiosis |
2012 |
314 |
Previous research found that crayfish (Cambarus chasmodactylus) may be engaged in a cleaning mutualism with ectosymbiotic worms (Annelida: Branchiobdellidae), yet mechanisms for symbiosis establishment and maintenance remain unknown. In addition, it ... |