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Projects include: measuring nutrient regeneration by dominant invertebrates, determining landscape controls on stream primary productivity and terrestrial carbon inputs, and using stable isotopes and diet analysis to compare how energy moves through food webs in productive and unproductive streams.<\/p>\n I have also become interested in using measurements of basic ecosystem processes, such as primary productivity and nutrient cycling, as tools to evaluate stream ecosystem health. Anthropogenic impacts to streams are often assessed through labor-intensive biological monitoring based on invertebrate or algal communities. Measurements of ecosystem processes may be cheaper and less labor-intensive, and provide more insight into functional changes that may have occurred. However, their application to biological assessment has not been well-tested. 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