Additional Class Readings

In addition to readings assigned in texts by Allen and Hauer and Lamberti, please read the following articles (available in the CNR Copy Ctr - Rm 22) and be prepared to discuss contents during weekly lectures.

Week 1-2
Hynes, HBN 1975.  The stream and its valley (Edgardo Baldi Memorial Lecture).  Verh. Internat. Verin. Limnol. 19: 1-15

Ward, JV, K Tockner, DB Arscott & C Claret. 2002. Riverine landscape diversity.  Freshwater Biol. 47: 517-539

(Prepare one page review to compare/constrast major points & turn by 9/3) 

Week 3
Hall, CAS, JA Stanford & FR Hauer. 1992.  The distribution and abundance of organisms as a consequence of energy balances along multiple environmental gradients. Oikos 65:377-390. 

Weeks 4-5
Stanford, JA & JV Ward. 1993.  An ecosystem perspective of alluvial rivers: connectivity and the hyporheic corridor.  J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 12: 48-60.

Weeks 6-7
Pringle, CM et al. 1988.  Patch dynamics in lotic systems: the stream as a mosaic.  J. N. Am. Benthol. Soc. 7: 503-524.

Vannote, RL, GW Minshall, KW Cummins et al. 1980.  The river continuum concept. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 37: 130-137.

Week 8

Junk, WJ, PB Bailey & RE Sparks. 1989.  The flood pulse concept in river-floodplain systems.  In: Proceedings of the International Large River Symposium (ed. DP Dodge).  Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 106: 110-127.