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Sherri L. Johnson

Sherri L. Johnson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
41
Citations
10151
World Ranking
5715
National Ranking
1949

Overview

Sherri L. Johnson is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has a substantial record of research within the field of environmental science. Their work spans a variety of subfields, emphasizing ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental chemistry, water science and technology, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research topics include fish ecology and management studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, hydrology and watershed management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, soil erosion and sediment transport, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their publication record includes contributions to several frequent venues, most notably the Forest Service Research Data Archive, Ecosphere, Water Resources Research, Forest Ecology and Management, and Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

Notable recent papers by Sherri L. Johnson include:

  • Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital-based food webs: a global meta-analysis from streams and rivers, 2020, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Long-term hydrological response to forest harvest during seasonal low flow: Potential implications for current forest practices, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Gradients of Anthropogenic Nutrient Enrichment Alter N Composition and DOM Stoichiometry in Freshwater Ecosystems, 2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Shifting stoichiometry: Long-term trends in stream-dissolved organic matter reveal altered C:N ratios due to history of atmospheric acid deposition, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Beyond Streamflow: Call for a National Data Repository of Streamflow Presence for Streams and Rivers in the United States, 2021, Water

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sherri L. Johnson include Iván Arismendi, Linda R. Ashkenas, Brooke E. Penaluna, John L. Campbell, and C. Murphy. These collaborations reflect a network of research partnerships across related environmental and ecological disciplines.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

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

  • Factors influencing stream temperatures in small streams: substrate effects and a shading experiment

    Sherri L Johnson

  • Stream temperature responses to forest harvest and debris flows in western Cascades, Oregon.

    Sherri L. Johnson;Julia A. Jones

  • 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

  • Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests

    Sarah J. K. Frey;Adam S. Hadley;Sherri L. Johnson;Mark Schulze

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

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

  • Changes in the character of stream water dissolved organic carbon during flushing in three small watersheds, Oregon

    Eran Hood;Michael N. Gooseff;Sherri L. Johnson

  • FRESHWATER SHRIMP EFFECTS ON DETRITAL PROCESSING AND NUTRIENTS IN A TROPICAL HEADWATER STREAM

    Todd A. Crowl;William H. McDowell;Alan P. Covich;Sherri L. Johnson

  • Flood Disturbance in a Forested Mountain Landscape Interactions of land use and floods

    Frederick J. Swanson;Sherri L. Johnson;Stanley V. Gregory;Steven A. Acker

  • Research in Thermal Biology: Burning Questions for Coldwater Stream Fishes

    Dale A. McCullough;John M. Bartholow;Henriëtte I. Jager;Robert L. Beschta

  • 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

  • Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification

    Patrick J. Mulholland;Patrick J. Mulholland;Robert O. Hall;Daniel J. Sobota;Walter K. Dodds

  • Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake

    Robert O. Hall;Jennifer L. Tank;Daniel J. Sobota;Patrick J. Mulholland;Patrick J. Mulholland

  • A cross-system comparison of bacterial and fungal biomass in detritus pools of headwater streams.

    Stuart E. G. Findlay;J. Tank;S. Dye;H.M. Valett

  • Can air temperature be used to project influences of climate change on stream temperature

    Ivan Arismendi;Mohammad Safeeq;Jason B Dunham;Sherri L Johnson

  • Stream temperature: scaling of observations and issues for modelling

    Sherri L. Johnson

  • Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers

    Jennifer J. Follstad Shah;Jennifer J. Follstad Shah;John S. Kominoski;Marcelo Ardón;Walter K. Dodds

  • The paradox of cooling streams in a warming world: Regional climate trends do not parallel variable local trends in stream temperature in the Pacific continental United States

    Ivan Arismendi;Sherri L. Johnson;Jason B. Dunham;Roy Haggerty

  • Riparian forest disturbances by a mountain flood — the influence of floated wood

    Sherri L. Johnson;Frederick J. Swanson;Gordon E. Grant;Steven M. Wondzell

  • Trends in stream nitrogen concentrations for forested reference catchments across the USA

    A. Argerich;S.L. Johnson;S.D. Sebestyen;C.C. Rhoades

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Walter K. Dodds
Walter K. Dodds Kansas State University
Jennifer L. Tank
Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame
Patrick J. Mulholland
Patrick J. Mulholland Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jackson R. Webster
Jackson R. Webster Virginia Tech
Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University
Geoffrey C. Poole
Geoffrey C. Poole Montana State University
Nancy B. Grimm
Nancy B. Grimm Arizona State University
Jason B. Dunham
Jason B. Dunham United States Geological Survey
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory

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