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Jonathan P. Benstead

Jonathan P. Benstead

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
8854
World Ranking
4420
National Ranking
1543

Overview

Jonathan P. Benstead is affiliated with the University of Alabama in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. Their work also extends into Water Science and Technology as well as Ecological Modeling.

Their main topics of research cover:

  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Jonathan P. Benstead has contributed to a range of peer-reviewed publications. Recent papers include:

  • Combined carbon flows through detritus, microbes, and animals in reference and experimentally enriched stream ecosystems, 2020, Ecology
  • Transport of N and P in U.S. streams and rivers differs with land use and between dissolved and particulate forms, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • Nutrient enrichment intensifies the effects of warming on metabolic balance of stream ecosystems, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Ignoring temperature variation leads to underestimation of the temperature sensitivity of plant litter decomposition, 2020, Ecosphere
  • Resource supply governs the apparent temperature dependence of animal production in stream ecosystems, 2020, Ecology Letters

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Amy D. Rosemond
  • Phillip M. Bumpers
  • Wyatt F. Cross
  • David W. P. Manning
  • James M. Hood

Publication venues in which Jonathan has frequently published encompass:

  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Ecological Applications

Best Publications

  • The natural history of Madagascar

    Steven M. Goodman;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Ecological stoichiometry in freshwater benthic systems: recent progress and perspectives

    Wyatt F. Cross;Jonathan P. Benstead;Paul C. Frost;Steven A. Thomas

  • Updated estimates of biotic diversity and endemism for Madagascar

    Steven M. Goodman;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Consumer‐resource stoichiometry in detritus‐based streams

    Wyatt F. Cross;Jonathan P. Benstead;Jonathan P. Benstead;Amy D. Rosemond;J. Bruce Wallace

  • Threshold elemental ratios of carbon and phosphorus in aquatic consumers.

    Paul C. Frost;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Interactions between temperature and nutrients across levels of ecological organization.

    Wyatt F. Cross;James M. Hood;Jonathan P. Benstead;Alexander D. Huryn

  • EFFECTS OF A LOW‐HEAD DAM AND WATER ABSTRACTION ON MIGRATORY TROPICAL STREAM BIOTA

    Jonathan P. Benstead;James G. March;Catherine M. Pringle;Frederick N. Scatena

  • Experimental nutrient additions accelerate terrestrial carbon loss from stream ecosystems

    Amy D. Rosemond;Jonathan P. Benstead;Phillip M. Bumpers;Vladislav Gulis

  • Damming Tropical Island Streams: Problems, Solutions, and Alternatives

    James G. March;Jonathan P. Benstead;Catherine M. Pringle;Frederick N. Scatena

  • Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate

    Guy Woodward;Jonathan P. Benstead;Oliver S. Beveridge;Julia Blanchard

  • An expanded role for river networks

    Jonathan P. Benstead;David S. Leigh

  • Testing isosource: stable isotope analysis of a tropical fishery with diverse organic matter sources.

    Jonathan P. Benstead;Jonathan P. Benstead;James G. March;Brian Fry;Katherine C. Ewel

  • Ecosystem and physiological scales of microbial responses to nutrients in a detritus-based stream: results of a 5-year continuous enrichment

    Keller Suberkropp;Vladislav Gulis;Amy D. Rosemond;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities: Individual- to Ecosystem-Level Responses

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Doris E. Pichler;Georgina Adams;Georgina Adams;Jonathan P. Benstead

  • RELATIONSHIPS OF STREAM INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITIES TO DEFORESTATION IN EASTERN MADAGASCAR

    Jonathan P. P. Benstead;Michael M. Douglas;Catherine M. Pringle

  • Effects of nutrient enrichment on the decomposition of wood and associated microbial activity in streams

    Vladislav Gulis;Amy D. Rosemond;Keller Suberkropp;Holly S. Weyers

  • Climate change and geothermal ecosystems: natural laboratories, sentinel systems, and future refugia

    Eoin J. O'Gorman;Jonathan P. Benstead;Wyatt F. Cross;Nikolai Friberg

  • Deforestation alters the resource base and biomass of endemic stream insects in eastern Madagascar

    Jonathan P. Benstead;Catherine M. Pringle

  • Migratory drift of larval freshwater shrimps in two tropical streams, Puerto Rico

    J. G. March;J. P. Benstead;C. M. Pringle;F. N. Scatena

  • Linking shrimp assemblages with rates of detrital processing along an elevational gradient in a tropical stream

    James G. March;Jonathan P. Benstead;Catherine M. Pringle;Mark W. Ruebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Wyatt F. Cross
Wyatt F. Cross Montana State University
Alexander D. Huryn
Alexander D. Huryn University of Alabama
Amy D. Rosemond
Amy D. Rosemond University of Georgia
Catherine M. Pringle
Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia
John C. Maerz
John C. Maerz University of Georgia
John S. Kominoski
John S. Kominoski Florida International University
J. Bruce Wallace
J. Bruce Wallace University of Georgia
Linda A. Deegan
Linda A. Deegan Woods Hole Research Center
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
William B. Bowden
William B. Bowden University of Vermont

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