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9 Research Data Set Summaries found, listed below.  View entire Research Data Catalog.
ID Research Data Set Title Type Category Year Investigator Affiliation
3004Geomorphology of Ball Creek and Coweeta Creek.1989 Bruce Wallace
Judy Meyer
Fred Benfield
Gary Grossman
Virginia Tech
University of Georgia
3008Leaf decomposition along the Ball Creek / Coweeta Creek elevational gradient.1991 Fred Benfield
Jack Webster
Virginia Tech
3009Benthic organic matter (BOM) standing crops along the Ball Creek / Coweeta Creek elevational gradient.1991 Fred Benfield
Jack Webster
Virginia Tech
3030The impact of urbanization magnitude and type on benthic macroinvertebrates in southern Appalachian streams.1996 Fred Benfield
Matt McTammany
Virginia Tech
3031Influence of land use on invertebrate assemblages in southern Appalachian agricultural streams.1995 Fred Benfield
Barbara Bennett
Virginia Tech
3039Metabolism in the Little Tennessee River.1998 Jack Webster
Fred Benfield
Virginia Tech
3041The role of headwater streams in hillslope erosion and sediment transport in the valley and ridge and Blue Ridge provinces.2001 Fred BenfieldVirginia Tech
4017The role of floods in particulate organic matter dynamics of a southern Appalachian river/floodplain ecosystem.1997 Jack Webster
Fred Benfield
Virginia Tech
4021Landscape and stream ecosystem trajectories in the southern Blue Ridge.2000 Judy Meyer
Gene Helfman
Fred Benfield
Paul Bolstad
David Wear
University of Georgia
Virginia Tech
University of Minn.
USDA Forest Service


39 Publications found, listed below.   Back to Top    View entire Publications Catalog.
 ID   Publication Title   Year   Author 
822Periphyton production in an Appalachian mountain trout stream.1981Hornick, L E., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
747The role of shredders in detrital dynamics of permanent and temporary streams.1983Kirby, J.M., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
958Factors affecting food utilization by a leaf shredding aquatic insect: leaf species and conditioning time.1983Golladay, S.W., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
1184Shredder abundance and leaf breakdown in an Appalachian Mountain stream.1985Benfield, E.F., and J.R. Webster
265Vascular plant breakdown in freshwater ecosystems.1986Webster, J.R., and E.F. Benfield
588Microbial activity associated with seston in headwater streams: effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and temperature.1987Peters, G.T., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
957Changes in stream morphology and storm transport of seston following watershed disturbance.1987Golladay, S.W., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
264Effects of watershed disturbance on stream seston characteristics.1988Webster, J.R., E.F. Benfield, S.W. Golladay, R.F. Kazmierczak Jr., W.B. Perry, and G.T. Peters
586Chemical composition and microbial activity of seston in a southern Appalachian headwater stream.1989Peters, G.T., E.F. Benfield, and J.R. Webster
955Changes in stream benthic organic matter following watershed disturbance.1989Golladay, S.W., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
2105Effects of forest disturbance on particulate organic matter budgets of small streams.1990Webster, J.R., S.W. Golladay, E.F. Benfield, D.J. D'Angelo, and G.T. Peters
1183Effects of forest disturbance on leaf breakdown in southern Appalachian streams.1991Benfield, E.F., and J.R. Webster
2131Mechanisms of stream phosphorus retention: an experimental study.1991D'Angelo, D.J., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
260Catchment disturbance and stream response: an overview of stream research at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory.1992Webster, J.R., S.W. Golladay, E.F. Benfield, J.L. Meyer, W.T. Swank, and J.B. Wallace
954Changes in stream stability following forest clearing as indicated by storm nutrient budgets.1992Golladay, S.W., J.R. Webster, E.F. Benfield, and W.T. Swank
258Organic processes in streams of the Eastern United States.1995Webster, J., J. Wallace, and E. Benfield
197Comparison of litterfall input to streams.1997Benfield, E.F.
201Organic matter dynamics in Hugh White Creek, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, North Carolina, USA.1997Webster, J.R., J.L. Meyer, J.B. Wallace, and E.F. Benfield
234 Diet and growth of a leaf-shredding caddisfly in southern Appalachian streams of contrasting disturbance history.1997Hutchens, J.J. Jr., E.F. Benfield, and J.R. Webster
139Stream biodiversity: The ghost of land use past.1998Harding, J.S., E.F. Benfield, P.V. Bolstad, G.S. Helfman, and E.B.D Jones III
167Effect of leaf litter exclusion on microbial enzyme activity associated with wood biofilms in streams.1998Tank, J.L., J.R. Webster, E.F. Benfield, and R.L. Sinsabaugh
1547Leaf Breakdown in Stream Ecosystems.1998Benfield, E.F.
2019What happens to allochthonous material that falls into streams? A synthesis of new and published information from Coweeta.1999Webster, J.R., E.F. Benfield, T.P. Ehrman, M.A. Schaeffer, J.L. Tank, J.J. Hutchens, and D.J. D'angelo
1218Effects of Forest Defoliation by the Gypsy Moth on Detritus Processing in Southern Appalachian Streams.2000Hutchens, J.J. Jr., and E.F. Benfield
1405Organic matter dynamics along a streaorder and elevational gradient in a southern Appalachian stream.2000Benfield, E.F., J.R. Webster, J.J. Hutchens, J.L. Tank, and P.A. Turner
7 Influences of land use on leaf breakdown in southern Appalachian headwater streams: a multiple-scale analysis.2001Sponseller, R.A., and E.F. Benfield
1406Long-Term Patterns in Leaf Breakdown in Streams in Response to Watershed Logging.2001Benfield, E.F., J.R. Webster, J.L. Tank, and J.J.Hutchens
1407Do Leaf Breakdown Rates Actually Measure Leaf Disappearance from Streams?2001Webster, J.R., E.F. Benfield, J.J. Hutchens, J.L. Tank, S.W. Golladay, and J.C. Adams
1539Relationships between land use, spatial scale and stream macroinvertebrate communities.2001Sponseller, R.A., E.F. Benfield, and H.M. Valett
1531Multiscale influences on physical and chemical stream conditions across Blue Ridge landscapes.2002Scott, M.C., G.S. Helfman, M.E. McTammany, E.F. Benfield, and P.V. Bolstad
2055Longitudinal patterns of metabolism in a southern Appalachian river.2003McTammany, M.E., J.R. Webster, E.F. Benfield, and M.A. Neatrour
2204The role of floods in particulate organic matter dynamics of a southern Appalachian river-floodplain ecosystem.2004Neatrour, M.A., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
2297Physical and biological responses of streams to suburbanization of historically agriculture watersheds.2006Burcher, C.L., and E.F. Benfield
2299Are leaf breakdown rates a useful measure of stream integrity along an agricultural landuse gradient?2006Hagen, E.M., J.R. Webster, and E.F. Benfield
3037The land-cover cascade: Relationships coupling land and water.2007Burcher, C.L., H.M. Valett, and E.F. Benfield
3061Recovery of stream ecosystem metabolism from historical agriculture.2007McTammany, M.E., E.F. Benfield, and J.R. Webster
Linking stream and landscape trajectories in the southern Appalachians.2008Gardiner, N., Sutherland, A. B., Bixby, R. J., Scott, M. C., Meyer, J. L, Helfman, G. S., Benfield, E. F., Pringle, C. M., Bolstad, C. M., and D. N. Wear
4003Effects of agriculture on wood breakdown and microbial biofilm respiration in southern Appalachian streams.2008McTammany, M.E., E.F. Benfield, and J.R. Webster.
4004 Fish assemblages responses to forest cover.2008Burcher, C.L., M.E. McTammany, E.F. Benfield, and G.S. Helfman.


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