Selected Publications

Stelzer, R.S., R.M. Bruch, H.G. Drecktrah, and M.P. Shupryt. 2008. Carbon sources for lake sturgeon in Lake Winnebago, WI. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, accepted for publication
Kent, T.R and R.S. Stelzer. 2008. Effects of deposited fine sediment on life history traits of Physa snails. Hydrobiologia 596:329-340.
Stelzer, R.S. and G.E. Likens. 2006. The effects of sampling frequency on estimates of dissolved silica export by streams: the role of hydrological variability and concentration-discharge relationships. Water Resources Research 42, W07415, doi:10.1029/2005WR004615

Moe, S.J, R.S. Stelzer, M. R. Forman, W. S. Harpole, T. Daufresne, T. Yoshida. 2005. Recent advances in ecological stoichiometry: insights for population and community ecology. Oikos 109: 29-39. View as PDF
Bernhardt, E.S., G. E. Likens, R. O. Hall, D. C. Buso, S. G. Fisher, T. M. Burton, J. L. Meyer, W. H. McDowell, M. S. Mayer, W. B. Bowden, S.E.G. Findlay, K. H. Macneale, R S. Stelzer, W. H. Lowe. 2005. Can't See the Forest for the Stream? The capacity of instream processing to modify terrestrial nitrogen exports. BioScience 55: 219-230. View as PDF
Evans-White, M.A., R.S. Stelzer, G.A. Lamberti. 2005. Taxonomic and regional patterns in benthic macroinvertebrate elemental composition in streams. Freshwater Biology 50: 1786-1799. View as PDF
Stelzer, R.S., J.B. Heffernan, and G.E. Likens. 2003. The Influence of dissolved nutrients and particulate organic matter quality on microbial respiration and biomass in a forest stream. Freshwater Biology 48: 1925-1937. View as PDF
Stelzer, R.S. and G.A. Lamberti. 2002. Ecological stoichiometry in running waters: periphyton chemical composition and snail growth. Ecology 83: 1039-1051. View as PDF
Frost, P.C., R.S. Stelzer, G.A. Lamberti, and J.J. Elser. 2002. Ecological stoichiometry of trophic interactions in the benthos: understanding the role of C:N:P ratios in littoral and lotic habitats. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21: 515-528. View as PDF
Stelzer, R.S. and G.A. Lamberti. 2001. Effects of N:P ratio and total nutrient concentration on stream periphyton community structure, biomass, and elemental composition. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 356-367. View as PDF
Stelzer, R.S. and G.A. Lamberti. 1999. Independent and interactive effects of crayfish and darters on a stream benthic community. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 18:524-532.