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88
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31650
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521
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185

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Walter K. Dodds is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domain of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Ecology, Water Science and Technology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics including:

  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology

Walter K. Dodds has contributed papers to a variety of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Pervasive changes in stream intermittency across the United States, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Zero or not? Causes and consequences of zero-flow stream gage readings, 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Nonperennial Flow Regimes in the Contiguous United States, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • What's in a Name? Patterns, Trends, and Suggestions for Defining Non-Perennial Rivers and Streams, 2020, Water

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sudeep Chandra
  • Julian D. Olden
  • Daví Gasparini Fernandes Cunha
  • Thibault Datry
  • Sarah E. Godsey

The venues where Dodds has most often published include:

  • Ecosphere
  • BioScience
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Environmental Management
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water

Walter K. Dodds was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Eutrophication of U.S. freshwaters: analysis of potential economic damages.

    Walter K. Dodds;Wes W. Bouska;Jeffrey L. Eitzmann;Tyler J. Pilger

  • 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

  • Nutrients, eutrophication and harmful algal blooms along the freshwater to marine continuum

    Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh;Hans W. Paerl;Walter K. Dodds

  • Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications

    Walter K. Dodds

  • Suggested classification of stream trophic state: distributions of temperate stream types by chlorophyll, total nitrogen, and phosphorus

    Walter K. Dodds;John R. Jones;Eugene B. Welch

  • Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks

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

  • Nitrogen, phosphorus, and eutrophication in streams

    Walter K. Dodds;Val H. Smith

  • Eutrophication and trophic state in rivers and streams

    Walter K. Dodds

  • Establishing nutrient criteria in streams

    Walter K. Dodds

  • Inter‐biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism

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

  • Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes

    Craig E. Williamson;Walter K. Dodds;Timothy K. Kratz;Margaret A. Palmer;Margaret A. Palmer

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus relationships to benthic algal biomass in temperate streams

    Walter K Dodds;Val H Smith;Kirk Lohman

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

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

  • THE ECOLOGY OF CLADOPHORA

    Walter K. Dodds;Dolly A. Gudder

  • THE ECOLOGY OF NOSTOC

    Walter K. Dodds;Dolly A. Gudder;Dieter Mollenhauer

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

    Jennifer L. Tank;Walter K. Dodds

  • THE ROLE OF PERIPHYTON IN PHOSPHORUS RETENTION IN SHALLOW FRESHWATER AQUATIC SYSTEMS

    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

  • Nitrogen Retention, Removal, and Saturation in Lotic Ecosystems

    Melody J. Bernot;Walter K. Dodds

Frequent Co-Authors

Matt R. Whiles
Matt R. Whiles University of Florida
Jennifer L. Tank
Jennifer L. Tank University of Notre Dame
William H. McDowell
William H. McDowell University of New Hampshire
Patrick J. Mulholland
Patrick J. Mulholland Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stephen K. Hamilton
Stephen K. Hamilton Michigan State University
Jackson R. Webster
Jackson R. Webster Virginia Tech
Sherri L. Johnson
Sherri L. Johnson US Forest Service
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
Nancy B. Grimm
Nancy B. Grimm Arizona State University
William B. Bowden
William B. Bowden University of Vermont

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