Kevin J. Collier

TL;DR: Stable isotope analyses revealed that crayfish from both native forest and pasture streams incorporated energy from aquatic invertebrates into their body tissue but did not appear to utilize detritus for growth, suggesting that change in local habitat and food resources, as a result of land use change, affect cray fish food choice more than factors related solely to age or size.

TL;DR: It is suggested that consumption of prey derived from aquatic sources can provide significant nutrition for spiders living along some stream channels and may represent an important feedback mechanism contributing to the energetics of riparian communities at sites where aquatic insect production is high.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between three land uses (indigenous vegetation, urbanisation, and agriculture) and indicators of stream ecological integrity was investigated using Boosted Regression Tree Modeling (BRT).

TL;DR: The authors measured the response of ecosystem metabolism, organic matter decomposition and strength loss, and invertebrate community composition across a gradient of catchment impairment defined by upstream landuse stress in two New Zealand streams.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the main area of activity for adult Trichoptera in forested riparian zones was within 30 m of the stream edge at these sites, and a faster rate of decline for abundance than richness with distance away from the stream reflected the relatively large distances travelled by representatives of many species.