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Matt R. Whiles is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research encompasses several main topics including Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Matt R. Whiles has published multiple papers in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Limnology and Oceanography, Freshwater Biology, Environmental Research Letters, Ecology Letters, and Water Resources Research.

  • "River fragmentation and flow alteration metrics: a review of methods and directions for future research," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Reciprocal subsidies between temporary ponds and riparian forests," 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • "Global patterns of allochthony in stream-riparian meta-ecosystems," 2024, Ecology Letters
  • "The Music of Rivers: The Mathematics of Waves Reveals Global Structure and Drivers of Streamflow Regime," 2023, Water Resources Research
  • "Mechanisms underlying lack of functional compensation by insect grazers after tadpole declines in a Neotropical stream," 2021, Limnology and Oceanography

The scientist often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Matthew J. Deitch, Daniel C. Allen, J. Checo Colón-Gaud, Keith B. Gido, and Walter K. Dodds.

Best Publications

  • The effects of amphibian population declines on the structure and function of Neotropical stream ecosystems

    Matt R. Whiles;Karen R. Lips;Cathy M. Pringle;Susan S. Kilham

  • Life on the Edge: The Ecology of Great Plains Prairie Streams

    Walter K. Dodds;Keith Gido;Matt R. Whiles;Ken M. Fritz

  • Biotic Indices and Stream Ecosystem Processes: Results from an Experimental Study

    J. Bruce Wallace;Jack W. Grubaugh;Matt R. Whiles

  • What do tadpoles really eat? Assessing the trophic status of an understudied and imperiled group of consumers in freshwater habitats

    Ronald Altig;Matt R. Whiles;Cindy L. Taylor

  • Toxins in transgenic crop byproducts may affect headwater stream ecosystems

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

  • Neotropical tadpoles influence stream benthos: evidence for the ecological consequences of decline in amphibian populations

    Anthony W. Ranvestel;Karen R. Lips;Catherine M. Pringle;Matt R. Whiles

  • Long-Term Dynamics of Coarse Particulate Organic Matter in Three Appalachian Mountain Streams

    J. Bruce Wallace;Matt R. Whiles;Sue Eggert;T. F. Cuffney

  • Quantification of the Nitrogen Cycle in a Prairie Stream

    Walter K. Dodds;Michelle A. Evans-White;Nicole M. Gerlanc;Lawrence Gray

  • Disease-Driven Amphibian Declines Alter Ecosystem Processes in a Tropical Stream

    Matt R. Whiles;Robert O. Hall Jr.;Walter K. Dodds;Piet Verburg

  • Energy flow and subsidies associated with the complex life cycle of ambystomatid salamanders in ponds and adjacent forest in southern Illinois

    Kurt J. Regester;Karen R. Lips;Matt R. Whiles

  • Continental-scale decrease in net primary productivity in streams due to climate warming

    Chao Song;Walter K. Dodds;Janine Rüegg;Janine Rüegg;Alba Argerich;Alba Argerich

  • Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology

    Matt R. Whiles;Walter K. Dodds

  • Leaf litter decomposition and macroinvertebrate communities in headwater streams draining pine and hardwood catchments

    Matt R. Whiles;J. Bruce Wallace

  • THE ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TALLGRASS PRAIRIE ARTHROPODS

    Matt R. Whiles;Ralph E. Charlton

  • Occurrence of maize detritus and a transgenic insecticidal protein (Cry1Ab) within the stream network of an agricultural landscape

    Jennifer L. Tank;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Todd V. Royer;Matt R. Whiles

  • HYDROLOGIC INFLUENCES ON INSECT EMERGENCE PRODUCTION FROM CENTRAL PLATTE RIVER WETLANDS

    Matt R. Whiles;Beth S. Goldowitz

  • Macroinvertebrate Communities in Agriculturally Impacted Southern Illinois Streams: Patterns with Riparian Vegetation, Water Quality, and In‐Stream Habitat Quality

    Mandy L. Stone;Matt R. Whiles;Jeremy A. Webber;Karl W. J. Williard

  • The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: factors controlling lotic systems across broad biogeographic scales

    Walter K. Dodds;Keith Gido;Matt R. Whiles;Melinda D. Daniels

  • Partitioning assimilatory nitrogen uptake in streams: an analysis of stable isotope tracer additions across continents

    J. L. Tank;E. Martí;T. Riis;D. von Schiller

  • Agricultural land use alters the seasonality and magnitude of stream metabolism

    Natalie A. Griffiths;Jennifer L. Tank;Todd V. Royer;Sarah S. Roley

  • Changes in Stream Primary Producer Communities Resulting from Large-Scale Catastrophic Amphibian Declines: Can Small-Scale Experiments Predict Effects of Tadpole Loss?

    Scott Connelly;Catherine M. Pringle;Rebecca J. Bixby;Roberto Brenes

  • Responses of stream macroinvertebrates to Bt maize leaf detritus.

    Catherine P. Chambers;Matt R. Whiles;Emma J. Rosi-Marshall;Jennifer L. Tank

  • Effects of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin on stream microbial communities and detritivorous macroinvertebrates.

    Jonathan D. Maul;Lance J. Schuler;Jason B. Belden;Matt R. Whiles

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter K. Dodds
Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University
Karen R. Lips
Karen R. Lips University of Maryland, College Park
James E. Garvey
James E. Garvey Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Catherine M. Pringle
Catherine M. Pringle University of Georgia
Susan S. Kilham
Susan S. Kilham Drexel University
Jennifer L. Tank
Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame
Natalie A. Griffiths
Natalie A. Griffiths Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Todd V. Royer
Todd V. Royer Indiana University
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall
Emma J. Rosi-Marshall Loyola University Chicago
Alexander D. Huryn
Alexander D. Huryn University of Alabama

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