Jane C. Marks

TL;DR: The authors used a before-after control-impact (BACI) design to assess changes in leaf litter decomposition and associated macroinvertebrate and fungal decomposers following dam decommissioning in Fossil Creek, Arizona, USA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the interactions between biotic and abiotic factors in travertine morphodynamics and conclude that the strong influence of living organisms on rates of Travertine growth, coupled with the beneficial effects of travertines on ecosystem dynamics, demonstrate a positive feedback between biology and geomorphology.

TL;DR: The Hilsenhoff biotic index, a measure of invertebrate pollution tolerance, was used to study changes in species composition and the immediate and short-term effects of antimycin A on macroinvertebrates during a fish renovation project in Fossil Creek, Arizona.

TL;DR: This work shows that the bacterial community on decomposing leaves in streams changes rapidly over time, influenced by leaf species via differences in genotype-level foliar chemistry.

TL;DR: It is shown that a large proportion of the bacterial taxa found on decomposing leaf litter grew slowly, and several low abundance taxa were highly enriched, and that quantitative stable isotope probing with H218O can be used to advance understanding of microorganisms in freshwater by identifying species that are growing in complex communities.