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Jennifer L. Tank is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions across several subfields including environmental chemistry, ecology, water science and technology, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within environmental science, most notably in soil and water nutrient dynamics and hydrology and watershed management studies. Other areas of focus include fish ecology and management studies, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, soil erosion and sediment transport, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal.

Jennifer L. Tank has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • "Declines in an abundant aquatic insect, the burrowing mayfly, across major North American waterways" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Storm size and hydrologic modification influence nitrate mobilization and transport in agricultural watersheds" (2021, Biogeochemistry)
  • "Quantifying denitrification following floodplain restoration via the two-stage ditch in an agricultural watershed" (2020, Ecological Engineering)
  • "Environmental DNA (eDNA) removal rates in streams differ by particle size under varying substrate and light conditions" (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems" (2023, Molecular Ecology Resources)

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals including:

  • Biogeochemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Jennifer L. Tank collaborates regularly with other researchers, with frequent coauthors being Shannon L. Speir, Ursula H. Mahl, Matt T. Trentman, Diogo Bolster, and Todd V. Royer.

Best Publications

  • Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams

    Bruce J. Peterson;Wilfred M. Wollheim;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jackson R. Webster

  • Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading

    Patrick J. Mulholland;Patrick J. Mulholland;Ashley M. Helton;Geoffrey C. Poole;Robert O. Hall

  • A review of allochthonous organic matter dynamics and metabolism in streams

    Jennifer L. Tank;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Natalie A. Griffiths;Sally A. Entrekin

  • Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

    Jake J. Beaulieu;Jennifer L. Tank;Stephen K. Hamilton;Wilfred M. Wollheim

  • Inter‐biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism

    P. J. Mulholland;Christy Susan Fellows;J. L. Tank;N. B. Grimm

  • What happens to allochthonous material that falls into streams? A synthesis of new and published information from Coweeta

    J. R. Webster;E. F. Benfield;T. P. Ehrman;M. A. Schaeffer

  • Ecosystem metabolism controls nitrogen uptake in streams in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

    Robert Jr. O. Hall;Jennifer L. Tank

  • Nutrient limitation of epilithic and epixylic biofilms in ten North American streams

    Jennifer L. Tank;Walter K. Dodds

  • Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism

    Melody J. Bernot;Daniel J. Sobota;Daniel J. Sobota;Robert O. Hall;Patrick J. Mulholland

  • Exotic snails dominate nitrogen and carbon cycling in a highly productive stream

    Robert O. Hall;Jennifer L. Tank;Mark F. Dybdahl

  • Toxins in transgenic crop byproducts may affect headwater stream ecosystems

    E. J. Rosi-Marshall;J. L. Tank;T. V. Royer;M. R. Whiles

  • Transport and fate of nitrate in headwater agricultural streams in Illinois.

    Todd V. Royer;Jennifer L. Tank;Mark B. David

  • Controls on eDNA movement in streams: Transport, Retention, and Resuspension

    Arial J. Shogren;Jennifer L. Tank;Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz;Brett Olds;Brett Olds

  • NITROGEN CYCLING IN A FOREST STREAM DETERMINED BY A 15N TRACER ADDITION

    Patrick J. Mulholland;Jennifer L. Tank;Diane M. Sanzone;Wilfred M. Wollheim

  • Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams – an inter‐biome perspective

    Jackson R. Webster;Patrick J. Mulholland;Jennifer L. Tank;H. Maurice Valett

  • N uptake as a function of concentration in streams

    Walter K. Dodds;Amanda J. Lopez;William B. Bowden;Stan Gregory

  • Foundations of translational ecology

    Carolyn A. F. Enquist;Stephen T. Jackson;Gregg M. Garfin;Frank W. Davis

  • Carbon and nitrogen transfer from a desert stream to riparian predators.

    D. M. Sanzone;J. L. Meyer;Eugènia Martí;E. P. Gardiner

  • Nutrient uptake in streams draining agricultural catchments of the midwestern United States

    Melody J. Bernot;Jennifer L. Tank;Todd V. Royer;Mark B. David

  • Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an interbiome comparison study

    P. J. Mulholland;J. L. Tank;J. R. Webster;W. B. Bowden

Frequent Co-Authors

Jackson R. Webster
Jackson R. Webster Virginia Tech
Patrick J. Mulholland
Patrick J. Mulholland Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Robert O. Hall
Robert O. Hall University of Montana
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall Loyola University Chicago
Walter K. Dodds
Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University
Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University
Todd V. Royer
Todd V. Royer Indiana University
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Diogo Bolster
Diogo Bolster University of Notre Dame

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