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1. Fisher, S.G., and W.L. Minckley. 1978. Chemical characteristics of a desert stream in flash flood. Journal of Arid Environments 1:25-33.

2. Busch, D.E.  1979.  The patchiness of diatom distribution in a desert stream.  Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 14:43-36.

3.  Busch, D.E., and S.G. Fisher.  1981.  Metabolism of a desert stream.  Freshwater Biology 11:301-308.

4.  Fisher, S.G., D.E. Busch, and N.B. Grimm.  1981.  Diel feeding chronologies in two Sonoran Desert stream fishes, Agosia chrysogaster (Cyprinidae) and Pantosteus clarki (Catostomidae).  Southwestern Naturalist 26:31-36.

5.  Gray, L.J.  1981.  Species composition and life histories of aquatic insects in a lowland Sonoran Desert stream.  American Midland Naturalist 106:229-242.

6.  Gray, L.J., and S.G. Fisher.  1981.  Post-flood recolonization pathways of macroinvertebrates in a lowland Sonoran Desert stream, Sycamore Creek, Arizona.  American Midland Naturalist 106:249-257.

7.  Grimm, N.B., S.G. Fisher, and W.L. Minckley.  1981.  Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in hot desert streams of Southwestern U.S.A.  Hydrobiologia 83:303-312.

8.  Fisher, S.G., L.J. Gray, N.B. Grimm, and D.E. Busch.  1982.  Temporal succession in a desert stream following flash flooding.  Ecological Monographs 52:93-110.

9.  Fisher, S.G.  1983.  Succession in streams.  Pages 7-27 in J. Barnes and G.W. Minshall, editors. Stream ecology:  Application and testing of general ecological theory.  Plenum Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

10.  Fisher, S.G., and L.J. Gray.  1983.  Secondary production and organic matter processing by collector macroinvertebrates in a desert stream. Ecology 64:1217-1224.

11.  Fisher, S.G., and N.B. Grimm.  1983.  Water quality and nutrient dynamics of Arizona streams.  OWRT Project Completion Report A-106-ARIZ.  Office of Water Research and Technology.

12.  Grimm, N.B., and S.G. Fisher.  1984.  Exchange between interstitial and surface water:  Implications for stream metabolism and nutrient cycling.  Hydrobiologia 111: 219-228.

13.  Fisher, S.G., and N.B. Grimm.  1985.  Hydrologic and material budgets for a small Sonoran Desert watershed during three consecutive cloudburst floods. Journal of Arid Environments 9: 105-118.

14.  Grimm, N.B., and S.G. Fisher.  1986.  Nitrogen limitation in a Sonoran Desert stream.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 5:2-15.

15.  Grimm, N.B., and S.G. Fisher.  1986.  Nitrogen limitation potential of Arizona streams and rivers.  Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 21:31-43.

16.  Fisher, S.G.  1986.  Structure and dynamics of desert streams.  Pages 114-139. IN:  W. Whitford (ed.).  Pattern and Process in Desert Ecosystems. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

17.  Jackson, J.K., and S.G. Fisher.  1986.  Secondary production, emergence, and export of aquatic insects of a Sonoran Desert stream.  Ecology 67:629-638.

18. Grimm, N.B. 1987. Nitrogen dynamics during succession in a desert stream. Ecology 68:1157-1170.

19. Fisher, S.G. 1987. Succession, scale, and hypothesis testing in streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 44: 689.

20. Jackson, J.K. 1988. Diel emergence, swarming and longevity of selected adult aquatic insects from a Sonoran Desert stream. American Midland Naturalist 119:344-352.

21. Grimm, N.B. 1988. Feeding dynamics, nitrogen budgets, and ecosystem role of a desert stream omnivore, Agosia chrysogaster (Pisces: Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 21:143-152.

22. Fisher, S. G., and N. B. Grimm. 1988. Disturbance as a determinant of structure in a Sonoran Desert stream ecosystem. Internationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandt Limnologie, Verhandlungen 23:1183-1189.

23. Grimm, N. B. 1988. Role of macroinvertebrates in nitrogen dynamics of a desert stream. Ecology 69: 1884-1893.

24. Grimm, N.B., and S.G. Fisher. 1989. Stability of periphyton and macroinvertebrates to disturbance by flash floods in a desert stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 8:293-307.

25. Valett, H.M., S.G. Fisher and E.H. Stanley. 1990. Physical and chemical characteristics of the hyporheic zone of a Sonoran Desert stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 9:201-215.

26. Fisher, S.G. 1990. Recovery processes in lotic ecosystems: limits of successional theory. In J.D. Yount and G.J. Niemi, editors. Recovery of lotic communities and ecosystems following disturbance: theory and application. Environmental Management 14:725-736.

27. Grimm, N.B., H.M. Valett, E.H. Stanley, and S.G. Fisher. 1991. Contribution of the hyporheic zone to stability of an arid-land stream. Internationale Vereiningung fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie, Verhandlungen. 24: 1595-1599.

28. Fisher, S.G., and N.B. Grimm. 1991. Streams and disturbance: are cross-ecosystem comparisons useful? pp 196-221 in J.C. Cole, G.M. Lovett, and S.E.G. Findlay, editors. Comparative analyses of ecosystems: patterns, mechanisms and theories. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, U.S.A.

29. Grimm, N.B., and S.G. Fisher. 1992. Responses of arid land streams to changing climate. pp 211-233 in P. Firth and S.G. Fisher, editors. Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, U.S.A.

30. Stanley, E.H. and H.M. Valett. 1992. Interaction between drying and the hyporheic zone of a desert stream ecosystem. pp 234-249 in P. Firth and S.G. Fisher, editors. Climate Change and Freshwater Ecosystems. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, U.S.A.

31. Boulton, A.J., S.E. Stibbe, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1991. Invertebrate recolonization of small patches of defaunated hyporheic sediments in a Sonoran Desert stream. Freshwater Biology 26:267-277.

32. Boulton, A.J., E.H. Stanley, S.G. Fisher, and P.S. Lake. 1992. Oversummering strategies of macroinvertebrates in intermittent streams in Australia and Arizona. Pages 227-237 in R.D. Roberts and M.L. Bothwell, editors. Aquatic ecosystems in semiarid regions: implications for resource management. NHRI Symposium Series 7. Environment Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

35. Grimm, N.B. 1992. Biogeochemistry of nitrogen in arid-land stream ecosystems. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 26:130-146.

36. Peterson, C.G., and N.B. Grimm. 1992. Temporal variation in enrichment effects during periphyton succession in a nitrogen-limited desert stream ecosystem. Journal of theNorth American Benthological Society 11:20-36.

37. Boulton, A.J., H.M. Valett, and S.G. Fisher. 1992. Spatial distribution and taxonomic composition of the hyporheos of several Sonoran Desert streams. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 125:37-61.

38. Stanley, E.H., and S.G. Fisher. 1992. Intermittency, disturbance, and stability in stream ecosystems. Pages 271-280 in R.D. Robarts and M.L. Bothwell, editors. Aquatic ecosystems in semiarid regions: implications for resource management. NHRI Symposium Series 7. Environment Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

39. Boulton, A.J., C.G. Peterson, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1992. Stability of an aquatic macroinvertebrate community in a multi-year hydrologic disturbance regime. Ecology 73:2192-2207.

40. Valett, H.M. 1993. Surface-hyporheic interactions ina Sonoran Desert stream: hydrologic exchange and diel periodicity. Hydrobiologia 259:133-144.

41. Valett, H.M., S.G. Fisher, N.B. Grimm, E.H. Stanley, and A.J. Boulton. 1992. Hyporheic-surface water exchange: implications forecosystem structure and function.Pages 395-405 in J.A. Stanford and J.J. Simons,editors. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Groundwater Ecology. American Water Resources Association, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

43. Stanley, E.H. and A.J. Boulton. 1993. Hydrology and the distribution of hyporheos: perspectives from mesic rivers and desert streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12:79-83.

46. Wood, D.J., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1992. Pools in desert streams: limnology and response to disturbance. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 26:171-179.

47. Grimm, N.B. 1994. Disturbance, succession, and ecosystem processes in streams: a case study from the desert. Pages 93-112 in P.S. Giller, A.G. Hildrew, and D.G. Raffaeli, editors. Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process. Joint Symposium of the British Ecological Society and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, England.

48. Valett, H.M., S.G. Fisher, N.B. Grimm, and P. Camill. 1994. Vertical hydrologic exchange and ecological stability of a desert stream ecosystem. Ecology 75:548-560.

49. Valett, H.M., C.C. Hakenkamp, and A.J. Boulton. 1993. Perspectives on the hyporheic zone: integrating hydrology and biology. Introduction. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12:40-43.

50. Hakenkamp, C.C., H.M. Valett, and A.J. Boulton. 1993. Perspectives on the hyporheic zone: integrating hydrology and biology. Concluding remarks. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 12:94-99.

51. Dudley, T.L., and N.B. Grimm. 1994. Modification of macrophyte resistance to disturbance by an exotic grass, and implications for desert stream succession. Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandt Limnologie, Verhandlungen 25:1456-1460.

53. Peterson, C.G., T.L. Dudley, K.D. Hoagland, and L.M. Johnson. 1993.Infection, growth, and community-level consequences of a diatom pathogen in a Sonoran Desert stream. Journal of Phycology 29:442-452.

55. Fisher, S.G. 1996. Natural disturbance and recovery of desert streams: a challenge to wetland management.in C. Montes and G. Oliver, editors. Bases ecológicas para la restauración de humedales en la cuenca mediterranea. Agencia de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucia, Sevilla.

56. Stanley, E.H., D.L. Buschman, A.J. Boulton, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1994. Invertebrate resistance and resilience to intermittency in a desert stream. American Midland Naturalist 131:288-300.

57. Peterson, C.G., A.C. Weibel, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1994. Mechanisms of benthic algal recovery following spates: comparison of simulated and natural events. Oecologia 98:280-290.

58. Danielopol, D.L., P. Marmonier, A.J. Boulton, and G. Bonaduce. 1994. World subterranean ostracod biogeography: dispersal or vicariance. Hydrobiologia 28:119-129.

59. Holmes, R.M., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1994. Nitrogen dynamics along parafluvial flowpaths: importance to the stream ecosystem. Pages 47-56 in J.A. Stanford and H.M. Valett, editors. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Groundwater Ecology. American Water Resources Association, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

60. Holmes, R.M., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1994. Parafluvial nitrogen dynamics in a desert stream ecosystem. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 13: 468-478.

61. Jones, J.B., Jr., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1995. Vertical hydrologic exchange and ecosystem metabolism in a Sonoran Desert stream. Ecology 76:942-952.

62. Jones, J.B., Jr., R.M. Holmes, S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1994. Chemoautotrophic production and respiration in the hyporheic zone of a Sonoran Desert stream. Pages 329-338 in J.A. Stanford and H.M. Valett, editors. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Groundwater Ecology. American Water Resources Association, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

63. Boulton, A.J., and E.H. Stanley. 1995. Hyporheic processes during flooding and drying in a Sonoran Desert stream. II. Faunal dynamics. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 134:27-52.

64. Stanley, E.H. and A.J. Boulton. 1995. Hyporheic processes during flooding and drying in a Sonoran Desert stream. I. Hydrologic and chemical dynamics. Hydrologic and chemical dynamics. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie 134:1-26.

66. Jones, J.B., Jr., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1995. Nitrification in the hyporheic zone of a desert stream ecosystem. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 14:249-258.

67. Jones, J.B., Jr., R.M. Holmes, S.G. Fisher, N.B. Grimm, and D.M. Greene. 1995. Methanogenesis in Arizona, USA dryland streams. Biogeochemistry 31:155-173.

69. Jones, J.B., Jr., J.D. Schade, S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1997. Organic matter dynamics in Sycamore Creek, a desert stream in Arizona, USA. Pages 78-81 in J.R. Webster and J.L. Meyer, editors. Stream organic matter budgets. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16:3-161.

70. Jones, J.B., Jr., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1996. A long-term perspective of dissolved organic carbon transport in Sycamore Creek, Arizona, USA. Hydrobiologia 317:183-188.

71. Jones, J.B., Jr. 1995. Factors controlling hyporheic respiration in a desert stream. Freshwater Biology 34:101-109.

72. Holmes, R.M., J.B. Jones, Jr., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1996. Denitrification in a nitrogen-limited stream ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 33:125-146.

73. Holmes, R.M., S.G. Fisher, N.B. Grimm, and B.J. Harper. 1998. The impact of flash floods on microbial distribution and biogeochemisty in the parafluvial zone of a desert stream. Freshwater Biology 40: 651-654.

75. Grimm, N.B., and K.C. Petrone. 1997. Nitrogen fixation in a desert stream ecosystem. Biogeochemistry 37:33-61.

76. Stanley, E.H., S.G. Fisher, and N.B. Grimm. 1997. Ecosystem expansion and contraction: a desert stream perspective. BioScience 47:427-435.

77. Clinton, S.M., N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1996. Response of a desert stream hyporheic invertebrate community to drying disturbance. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15:700-712.

79. Fisher, S.G., N.B. Grimm, E. Martí, and R. Gómez. 1998. Hierarchy, spatial configuration, and nutrient cycling in streams. Australian Journal of Ecology 23:41-52.

80. Peterson, C.G. 1996. Mechanims of lotic microalgal colonization following space-clearing disturbances acting at different spatial scales. Oikos 77:417-435.

81. Schade, J.D., and S.G. Fisher. 1997. The influence of leaf litter on a Sonoran Desert stream ecosystem. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16:612-626.

82. Martí, E., N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 1997. Pre- and post-flood nutrient retention efficiency in a desert stream ecosystem. Journal of the North American Benthological Society:16: 805-819.

83. Fisher, S.G., N.B. Grimm, E. Martí., J.B. Jones, Jr., and R.M. Holmes. 1998. Material spiralling in river corridors: a telescoping ecosystem model. Ecosystems 1: 19-34.

84. Dent, C.L., and N.B. Grimm. 1999. Spatial heterogeneity in stream water nutrient concentrations over successional time. Ecology: 80:2283-2298.

86. Martí, E., S.G. Fisher, J.J. Schade, and N.B. Grimm. 2000. Effect of flood frequency on hydrological and chemical linkages between streams and their riparian zones: an intermediate disturbance model. Pages 111-136 in J.B. Jones, Jr., and P.J. Mulholland, editors. Streams and ground waters. Academic Press, San Diego, USA.

87. Martí, E., S.G. Fisher, J.J. Schade, J.R. Welter, and N.B. Grimm. 2000. Hydrological and chemical linkages between streams and their riparian zones: an intermediate disturbance model. Internationale Vereinigung fur Theoretische und Angewandt Limnologie, Verhandlungen 27:442-447.

88. Dent, C.L., J. D. Schade, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 2000. Subsurface influences on surface biology. Pages 381-402 in J.B. Jones, Jr., and P.J. Mulholland, editors. Streams and ground waters. Academic Press, San Diego, USA.

 89. Dahm, C.N., N.B. Grimm, P. Marmonier, H.M. Valett, and P. Vervier. 1998. Nutrient dynamics at the interface between surface waters and ground waters. Freshwater Biology: 40: 427-451.

 90. Forrester, G.E., T.L. Dudley, and N.B. Grimm.  1999.  Trophic interactions in open systems: Effect of predators and nutrients on stream food chains.  Limnology and Oceanography 44:1187-1197.

 91. Dent, C.L., and J.C. Henry. 1999. Modelling nutrient-periphyton dynamics in streams with surface-subsurface exchange. Ecological Modelling 122:97-116.

 92. Vitousek, P.M., K. Cassman, C. Cleveland, T. Crews, C.B. Field, N.B. Grimm, R.W. Howarth, R. Marino, L. Martinelli, E.B. Rastetter, and  J.I. Sprent. 2000. Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation. Biogeochemistry: in press.

 93. Grimm, N.B. J.M. Grove, C.L. Redman, and S.T.A. Pickett. 2000. Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems. BioScience 50:571-584

  94. Collins, J., A. Kinzig, N.B. Grimm, W. Fagan, J. Wu, and E. Borer. 2000. A new urban ecology. American Scientist 88:416-425.

 95. Dent, C.L., N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 2001. Multi-scale effects of surface-subsurface exchange on stream water nutrient concentrations. J. No. Amer. Benthol. Soc.: in press.

 96. Schade, J.D., S.G. Fisher, N.B. Grimm, and J.A. Seddon. 2001. The influence of a riparian shrub on nitrogen cycling in a Sonoran Desert stream. Ecology: in press.
 
 
 
 

Cummins, K.W., J.R. Sedell, F.J. Swanson, G.W. Minshall, S.G. Fisher, C.E. Cushing, R.C. Peterson, and R.L. Vannote. 1983. Organic matter budgets for stream ecosystems: problems in their evaluation. pp. 299-353 in J.R. Barnes and G.W. Minshall, editors. Stream ecology:  Application and testing of general ecological theory.  Plenum Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Stream Solute Workshop (N.B. Grimm with 18 others). 1990. Concepts and methodologies for studying solute dynamics in stream ecosystems. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 9:95-119.

Carpenter, S.R., N.B. Grimm, S.G. Fisher, and J.R. Kitchell. 1992. Global climate change and freshwater ecosystems: lakes and streams. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 23:119-139.

Grimm, N.B. 1993. Implications of climate change for stream communities. Pages 293-314 + lit cited in P. Kareiva, J. Kingsolver, and R. Huey, editors. Biotic interactions and global change. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, USA.

Fisher, S.G. 1994. Scale, pattern, and process in freshwater ecosystems: some unifying thoughts. Pages 575-591 in P.S. Giller, A.G. Hildrew, and D.G. Raffaeli, editors. Aquatic ecology: scale, pattern and process. Joint Symposium of the British Ecological Society and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. Blackwell Scientific, Oxford, England.

Fisher, S.G. 1995. Stream ecosystems of the western United States. Pages 61-87 in C.E. Cushing, K.W. Cummins, and G.W. Minshall, editors. River and stream ecosystems. Ecosystems of the world 22. Elsevier Press, New York.

Grimm, N.B. 1995. Why link species and ecosystems? A perspective from ecosystem ecology. Pages 5-15 + lit. cited in Jones, C.G. and Lawton, J.H., editors. Linking species and ecosystems. Chapman and Hall, Inc., New York.

Fisher, S.G., and N.B. Grimm. 1996. Ecological effects of global climate change on freshwater ecosystems with emphasis on streams and rivers. Pages 30.1-30.31 in Mays, L.W., editor. Handbook of water resources. McGraw-Hill.

Grimm, N.B. 1996. Surface-subsurface interactions in streams. Pages 625-646 in F.R. Hauer and G.A. Lamberti, editors. Methods in stream ecology. Academic Press, San Diego, California, USA.

Fisher, S.G. 1997. Creativity, idea generation, and the functional morphology of streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16: 305-318.

Grimm, N.B., A. Chacón, C.N. Dahm, O.T. Lind, P.L. Starkweather, and W.W. Wurtsbaugh. 1997. Sensitivity of aquatic ecosystems to climatic and anthropogenic changes: the Basin and Range, American Southwest, and México. Hydrological Processes 11:1023-1041.

Grimm, N.B., S.G. Fisher, S.V. Gregory, G.R. Marzolf, D.M. McKnight, F.J. Triska, and H.M. Valett. 1997. Sustainability of western watersheds: nutrients and productivity. Pages 33-45 in W.L. Minckley, editor. Aquatic ecosystems sysmposium. Report to Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission. National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA.

Dahm, C.N., N.B. Grimm, P. Marmonier, H.M. Valett, and P. Vervier. 1998. Nutrient dynamics at the interface between surface waters and ground waters. Freshwater Biology: 40: 427-451.

Dent, C.L., J. J. Schade, N.B. Grimm, and S.G. Fisher. 2000. Subsurface influences on surface biology. Pages 381-402 in J.B. Jones, Jr., and P.J. Mulholland, editors. Streams and ground waters. Academic Press, San Diego, USA.

Collins, J., A. Kinzig, N.B. Grimm, W. Fagan, J. Wu, and E. Borer. 2000. A new urban ecology. American Scientist 88:416-425.

Grimm, N.B. J.M. Grove, C.L. Redman, and S.T.A. Pickett. 2000. Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems. BioScience 50:571-584.

Vitousek, P.M., K. Cassman, C. Cleveland, T. Crews, C.B. Field, N.B. Grimm, R.W. Howarth, R. Marino, L. Martinelli, E.B. Rastetter, and J.I. Sprent. Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation. Biogeochemistry: in press.

Grimm, N.B., L.J. Baker, and D. Hope. 2000. An ecosystem approach to understanding cities: familiar foundations and uncharted frontiers. In A.R. Berkowitz, C.H. Nilon, and K.S. Hollweg, editors. Understanding urban ecosystems: a new frontier for science and education. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York (in press).

1. Gray, L.J. 1980 (Ph.D.).  Colonization pathways and community development of desert stream macroinvertebrates.

2. Grimm, N.B.  1980 (M.S.).  Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in selected southwestern streams.

3. Grimm, N.B.  1985 (Ph.D.).  Roles of primary producers and consumers in nitrogen dynamics of a desert stream ecosystem.

4. Jackson, J.J.  1985 (M.S.).  Emergence of desert stream insects.

5. Wood, D.J. 1990 (M.S.). Desert stream pools: limnology and response to disturbance.

6. Valett, H.M. 1991 (Ph.D.). Role of the hyporheic zone in the stability of a stream ecosystem.

7. Stanley, E.H. 1993 (Ph.D.) Drying disturbance and stability in a desert stream ecosystem.

8. Jones, J.B. 1994 (Ph.D.). Hydrologic linkage and hyporheic metabolism in a Sonoran Desert stream.

9. Holmes, R.M. 1995 (Ph.D.) Parafluvial nutrient dynamics in a desert stream ecosystem.

10. Schade, J.D. 1994 (M.S). The influence of leaf litter inputs on a Sonoran Desert stream ecosystem.

11. Clinton, S.M. 1996 (M.S.). Resistance and resilience of hyporheic invertebrates to flooding and drying disturbance in a desert stream.

12. Schrot, A. 1996 (M.S.). Effects of spatial heterogeneity on macroinvertebrate diversity in a desert stream.

13. Dent, C.L. 1999. (Ph.D.). Effects of ecosystem configuration on nutrient dynamics in a Sonoran Desert stream ecosystem.

14. Holland, M.S. (M.S., in progress). The influence of desert soils on nitrogen concentrations in runoff in a Sonoran Desert system.

15. Schade, J.D. 2000. (Ph.D.). The influence of nutrient gradients on nutrient cycling in a desert stream ecosystem.

16. Welter, J.R. (Ph.D., in progress). Nitrogen transport and processing in the intermittent drainage network: the role of terrestrial-aquatic interactions in nitrogen cycling in arid lands.

17. Curro Henry, J. (Ph.D., in progress). The role of sandbars in a desert stream ecosystem.

18. Edmonds, J.W. (Ph.D., in progress). The influence of dissolved organic carbon quality patterns on microbial activity in desert lotic ecosystems.

19. Roach, W.J. (Ph.D., in progress).

20. Jenerette, G.W. (Ph.D. in progress).

21. Luck, M.A. (M.S. in progress).

22. Coppola, A.M. (M.S. in progress). What limits benthic primary production in Indian Bend Wash?

23. Sponseller, R. (Ph.D., in progress).
 

Theses completed elsewhere, with research conducted at Sycamore Creek

1. Gomez Cerrezo, R. (Univ. Murcia, Spain; Ph.D., 1995). Role of wetlands in nutrient dynamics of an arid basin: downstream effects. (thesis co-directed by M.R. Vidal-Abarca, M.L. Suarez, and S. Fisher)

2. Maltchik, L.M. (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Ph.D., 1994). Bioenergetic study of an arid-land stream in the south of Spain. (thesis directed by C. Montes)

3. Forrester, G.E. (Univ. of New Hampshire; Ph.D., 1992). Title? (thesis directed by P. Sale)

4. Martí, M.E. (Univ. Barcelona, Spain; Ph.D., 1995). Nutrient dynamics in calcareous and siliceous Mediterranean watersheds. (thesis directed by F. Sabater, J. Armengol)
 

1. Weibel, A.C. (Arizona State University). Succession of algal communities following a simulated spate in a desert stream. (summer 1990 NSF REU project and fall independent study)

2. Camill, P. (University of Tennessee). Subsurface-surface interactions: hydrological and nutrient dyanmics as factors influencing algal variability in a Sonoran Desert stream. (summer 1990 NSF REU project)

3. Buschman, D.L. (Regis College, CO). Tolerance of water loss of aquatic macroinvertebrates of Sycamore Creek. (summer 1990 NSF REU project)

4. Stibbe, S. (College of Wooster, OH). Recolonization pathways of hyporheic fauna in a Sonoran Desert stream. (summer 1990 NSF REU project)

5. Petrone, K. (Hampshire College, MA). The potential importance of cyanobacteria to the nitrogen budget of a Sonoran Desert stream. (summer 1991 NSF REU project).

6. Welter, J.R. (University of Oregon). Factors which influence the age distribution of the woody riparian vegetation of Sycamore Creek. (Summer 1991 NSF REU project)

7. Petrone, K. (Hampshire College, MA). Nitrogen fixation during succession in a desert stream: chemical and physical factors which regulate nitrogen fixation. (summer 1992 NSF REU project, summer-fall 1992 undergraduate thesis project)

8. Bishop, D. (Drake University, KS). Physical changes and fate of Cladophora glomerata after water loss. (summer 1992 NSF REU project)

9. Blaine, T. (Brown University, RI). The role of Baccharis in nitrogen uptake in gravel bars. (summer 1993 NSF REU project)

10. Greene, D. (Delta State University, MS) Anaerobic metabolism in a desert stream. (summer 1993 NSF REU project)

11. Shorty, K.S. (Arizona State University). Gaseous nitrogen transformations following wetting of desert soil. (spring 1994 ECOREU project)

12. Chavez, L. (Arizona State University). Effects of the parafluvial zone on algal distribution and abundance in a Sonoran Desert stream (summer-fall 1994 ECOREU project)

13. David, L. (Mills College, CA). Nitrogen dynamics during leaf decomposition in a desert stream. (summer 1994 NSF REU project)

14. Harper, B. (Arizona State University). Spatial variation in bacterial populations along parafluvial flowpaths. (summer-fall 1994 NSF REU and Hughes BREU project)

15. Murphy, E.M. (Arizona State University). Responses of hyporheic invertebrates to stress associated with surface stream drying. (summer-fall 1994 ECOREU project)

16. Harper, B. (Arizona State University). Denitrification in upland soils following rainfall events. (Spring 1995 Hughes BREU project)

17. Schwemm, A.K. (Arizona State University). Effects of the parafluvial zone on algal distribution and abundance in a desert stream. (summer-fall 1995 ECOREU project)

18. Jackson, A.J. (Arizona State University).The importance and variation of denitrification potential of heterogeneous algal mats in a desert stream ecosystem. (summer-fall 1995 ECOREU project; summer 1996 NSF REU project; 1996-1997 academic year Hughes BREU project and Honors Thesis)

19. Corbett, Alicia (Arizona State University). Differences in water chemistry between Sycamore Creek sources. (ECOREU project)

20. Myers, Michael (Arizona State University).Drying and riparian vegetation-spatial patterns according to scale. (ECOREU project)

21. Hunter, Jennifer (Arizona State University). Growth and Distribution of Algal Mats in Relation to Nitrogen Availability. (Summer 1997 REU project)

22. Seddon, Jaime (Arizona State University). Bacterial abundance and DOC in gravel bars colonized by Baccharis salicifolia. (ECOREU and Hughes BREU).

23. Zachary, Jennifer. (Arizona State University). (Hughes BREU) 1998 - 2001

24. Chan, Andy H. (University of California - Berkley)  Chemical characteristics of loadings on asphalt parking surfaces transported during a simulated summer rainfall event, Phoenix, AZ.  Summer 1998 NSF REU.

25. Malone, Katherine (Georgia State University). Pre-and post flood soil denitrification and inorganic nitrogen content in a Central Arizona stream's riparian zone. (Summer 1999 REU)

26.  Boone, Shawn. (Texas A&M University). Comparison of dry atomospheric depostion on surrogate surfaces and ambient air samples.  Summer 1999 NSF REU

27. Lohman, Erik. (Arizona State University). (Hughes BREU) 1998-2000

28. Mattozi, Matthew de la Pena (Harvey Mudd College, CA). Dynamics of microbial respiration along an urban flowpath.  Summer 2000 NSF REU

29.  Dillard, Noah D. (Kalamazoo College, MI).  Nitrogen cycling within urban storm water catchment areas. Summer 2000,  NSF REU.

 30. Zachary, Jennifer (Arizona State University)  Soil respiration of desert soils along an urbanization gradient.  Summer 2000 NSF REU.

 31. Zinnow, Katharina. (Technical University of Mining Freiberg - Germany) Visiting Scholar working on LTER project.. 2000-2001