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Dr. Walter K. Dodds
Phone: 785-532-6998 Email: wkdodds@ksu.eduAddress: 116 Ackert Hall, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 Interests: Microbial ecology, groundwater: microscale factorsPersonnel Home Page: Publication
1. O'Brien, J.M. and W.K. Dodds. 2008. Predicting NH4+ uptake and mineralization in prairie streams by using chamber incubation and short-term nutrient addition experiments. Freshwater Biology 52: 102- 112.

2. Mulholland, P.J., A.M. Helton, G.C. Poole, R.O. Hall, Jr., S.K. Hamilton, B.J. Peterson, J.L. Tank, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, W.K. Dodds, S. Findlay, S.V. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Meyer, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, C. Arango, J.J. Beaulieu, M.J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, L. Johnson, B.R. Niederlehner, J.M. O'Brien, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, D.J. Sobota, and S.M. Thomas. 2008. Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading. Nature 452: 202- 207.

3. Williamson, C.E., W. Dodds, T.K. Kratz, and M. Palmer. 2008. Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6: 247- 254.

4. O'Brien, J.M. and W.K. Dodds. 2008. Ammonium uptake and mineralization in prairie streams: chamber incubation and short-term nutrient addition experiments. Freshwater Biology 53: 102- 112.

5. Dodds, W.K. and R.M. Oakes. 2008. Headwater influences on downstream water quality. Environmental Management 41: 367- 377.

6. Dodds, W.K., K.C. Wilson, R.L. Rehmeier, G.L. Knight, S. Wiggam, J.A. Falke, H.J. Dalgleish, and K.N. Bertrand. 2008. Comparing ecosystem goods and services provided by restored and native lands. BioScience 58: 837- 845.

7. O'Brien, J.M. , W.K. Dodds, K.C. Wilson, J.N. Murdock and J. Eichmiller. 2007. The saturation of N cycling in Central Plains streams: 15N experiments across a broad gradient of nitrate concentrations. Biogeochemistry 84: 31- 49.

8. Murdock, J.N., and W.K. Dodds. 2007. Linking benthic algal biomass to stream substratum topography. Journal of Phycology 43: 449- 460.

9. Dodds, W.K.. 2007. Trophic state, eutrophication, and nutrient criteria in streams. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 22: 669- 676.

10. Dodds, W.K. and J.J. Cole. 2007. Expanding the concept of trophic state in aquatic ecosystems: It's not just the autotrophs. Aquatic Sciences 69: 427- 439.

11. Dodds, W. K. 2006. Eutrophication and trophic state in rivers and streams. Limnology and Oceanography 51: 671- 680.

12. Dodds, W. K. and J. A. Nelson. 2006. Redefining the community:a species-based approach. Oikos 112: 464- 472.

13. Dodds, W. K., E. Carney and R. T. Angelo. 2006. Determining ecoregional reference conditions for nutrients, secchi depth, and chlorophyll a in Kansas lakes and reservoirs. Lake and Reservoir Management 22: 151- 159.

14. Dodds, W. K. 2006. Nutrients and the Dead Zone: Ecological stoichiometry and depressed dissolved oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 211- 217.

15. Dodds, W.K., and R. M. Oakes. 2006. Controls on nutrients across a prairie stream watershed: Land use and riparian cover effects. Environmental Management 37: 636- 646.

16. Bernot, R.J., W.K. Dodds, M.C. Quist and C.S. Guy. 2006. Temperature and kairomone induced life history plasticity in coexisting Daphnia. Aquatic Ecology 40: 361- 372.

17. Bernot, M. J., and W. K. Dodds. 2005. Chronic nitrogen loading in streams. Ecosystems 8: 442- 453.

18. Fritz, K.M. and W. K. Dodds. 2005. Harshness: characterization of intermittent stream habitat over space and time. Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 13- 23.

19. Payn, R. A., J. R. Webster, P. J. Mulholland, H. M. Valett, and W. K. Dodds. 2005. Estimation of stream nutrient uptake from nutrient addition experiments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 3: 174- 182.

20. Dodds, W. K., and M. R. Whiles. 2004. Quality and quantity of suspended particles in rivers: Continent-scale patterns in the United States. Environmental Management 33: 355- 367.

21. Fritz, K. M., and W. K. Dodds. 2004. Resistance and resilience of macroinvertebrate assemblages to drying and flood in a tallgrass prairie stream system. Hydrobiologia 597: 99- 112.

22. Dodds, W. K., K. Gido, M. R. Whiles, K. M. Fritz, and W. J. Matthews. 2004. Life on the edge: the ecology of Great Plains prairie streams. BioScience 54: 207- 281.

23. Dodds W. K., E. Marti, J. L. Tank. J. Pontius, S. K. Hamilton, N. B. Grimm, W. B. Bowden, W. H. McDowell, B. J. Peterson, H. M. Valett, J. R. Webster, and S. Gregory. 2004. Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling rates in streams. Oecologia 140: 458- 467.

24. Dodds, W. K., and R. Oakes. 2004. A technique for establishing reference nutrient concentrations across watersheds impacted by humans. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 2: 333- 341.

25. Bernot, M. J., W. K. Dodds, W. S. Gardner, M. J. McCarthy, D. Sobolev, and J. L. Tank.. 2003. Comparing denitrification estimates for a Texas estuary by using acetylene inhibition and membrane inlet mass spectrometry. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 5950- 5956.

26. Dodds, W. K. 2003. Misuse of inorganic N and soluble reactive P concentrations to indicate nutrient status of surface waters. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22: 171- 181.

27. Evans-White, M. A., W. K. Dodds, and M. R. Whiles. 2003. Ecosystem significance of crayfishes and central stonerollers in a tallgrass prairie stream: Functional differences between co-occurring omnivores. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22: 423- 441.

28. Tank, J. L., and W. K. Dodds. 2003. Responses of heterotrophic and autotrophic biofilms to nutrients in ten streams. Freshwater Biology 48: 1031- 1049.

29. Webster, J. R., P. J. Mulholland, J. L. Tank, H. M. Valett, W. K. Dodds, B. J. Peterson, W. B. Bowden, C. N. Dahm, S. Findlay, S. V. Gregory, N. B. Grimm, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, E. Marti, W. H. McDowell, J. L. Meyer, D. D. Morrall, S. A. Thomas, and W. M. Wollheim. 2003. Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams - an inter-biome perspective. Freshwater Biology 48: 1329- 1352.

30. Dodds, W. K. 2003. The role of periphyton in phosphorus retention in shallow freshwater aquatic systems. Journal of Phycology 39: 830- 849.

31. Fritz, K. M., and W. K. Dodds. 2002. Macroinvertebrate assemblage structure across a tallgrass prairie stream landscape. Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie 154: 70- 102.

32. Dodds, W. K., and B. J. F. Biggs. 2002. Water velocity attenuation by stream periphyton and macrophytes in relation to growth form and architecture. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21: 2- 15.

33. Dodds, W. K., V. H. Smith, and K. Lohman. 2002. Nitrogen and phosphorus relationships to benthic algal biomass in temperate streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 59: 865- 874.

34. Dodds, W. K., A. J. López, W. B. Bowden, S. Gregory, N. B. G rimm, S. K. Hamilton, A. E. Hershey, E., Marti, W. B. McDowell, J. L. Meyer, D. Morrall, P. J. Mulholland, B. J. Peterson, J. L. Tank, D. C. J. van der Hoek, J. R. Webster, and W. Wollheim.. 2002. N uptake as a function of concentration in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21: 206- 220.

35. Findlay, S., J. Tank, S. Dye, H. M. Vallett, P. Mulholland, W. H. McDowell, S. Johnson, S. K. Hamilton, J. Edmonds, W. K. Dodds, and W. B. Bowden.. 2002. A cross-system comparison of bacterial and fungal biomass in detritus pools of headwater streams. Microbial Ecology 43: 55- 66.

36. Kemp, M. J., and W. K. Dodds. 2002. The influence of ammonium, nitrate, and dissolved oxygen concentration on uptake, nitrification, and denitrification rates associated with prairie stream substrata. Limnology and Oceanography 47: 1380- 1393.

37. Whiles, M. R., and W. K. Dodds. 2002. Relationships between stream size, suspended particles, and filter-feeding macroinvertebrates in a Great Plains drainage network. Journal of Environmental Quality 31: 1589- 1600.

38. Mulholland, P. J., J. L. Tank, J. R. Webster, W. B. Bowden, W. K. Dodds, S. V. Gregory, N. B. Grimm, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, E. Mart¡, W. H. McDowell, J. Merriam, J. L. Meyer, B. J. Peterson, H. M. Valett, and W. M. Wollheim. 2002. Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an inter-biome comparison study. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21: 544- 560.

39. Kemp, M. J., and W. K. Dodds. 2002. Comparisons of nitrification and denitrification in prairie and agriculturally influenced streams. Ecological Applications 12: 998- 1009.

40. Evans-White, M., W. K. Dodds, L. Gray, and K. M. Fritz. 2001. A comparison of the trophic ecology of crayfish (Orconectes nais (Faxon) and Orconectes neglectus (Faxon)) and central stonerollers (Compostoma anomalum (Rafinesque)): omnivory in a tallgrass prairie stream. Hydrobiologia 462: 131- 144.

41. Kemp, M. J., and W. K. Dodds. 2001. Centimeter-scale patterns of oxygen concentrations related to nitrification in prairie stream substrate. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20: 347- 357.

42. Mulholland, P. J., C. S. Fellows, J. L. Tank, N. B. Grimm, J. R. Webster, S. K. Hamilton, E. Marti, L. Ashkenas, W. B. Bowden, W. K. Dodds, W. H. McDowell, M. J. Paul, and B. J. Peterson. 2001. Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology 46: 1503- 1517.

43. Peterson, B. J., W. M. Wollheim, P. J. Mulholland, J. R. Webster, J. L. Meyer, J. L. Tank, E. Marti, W. B. Bowden, H. M. Valett, A. E. Hershey, W. H. McDowell, W. K. Dodds, S. K. Hamilton, S. Gregory, and D. D. Morrall. 2001. Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams. Science 292: 86- 90.

44. Kemp, M. J., and W. K. Dodds. 2001. Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen concentrations in pristine and agriculturally- influenced prairie streams. Biogeochemistry 53: 125- 141.

45. Dodds, W. K., and E. Welch. 2000. Establishing nutrient criteria in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 19: 186- 196.

46. Dodds, W. K., M. A. Evans-White, N. Gerlanc, L. Gray, D. A. Gudder, M. J. Kemp, A. L., Lo'pez, D. Stagliano, E. Strauss, J. L. Tank, M. R. Whiles, and W. Wollheim. 2000. Quantification of the nitrogen cycle in a prairie stream. Ecosystems 3: 574- 589.

47. Banks, M. K., C. Clennan, W. Dodds, and C. Rice. 1999. Variations in microbial activity due to fluctuations in soil water content at the water table interface. Journal of Environmental Science and Health 34: 479- 505.

48. Fritz, K. M., W. K. Dodds, and J. Pontius. 1999. The effects of bison crossings on the macroinvertebrate community in a tallgrass prairie stream. American Midland Naturalist 141: 253- 265.

49. Dodds, W. K., and J. Brock. 1998. A portable chamber for in situ determination of benthic metabolism. Freshwater Biology 39: 49- 59.

50. Dodds, W. K., J. R. Jones, and E. B. Welch. 1998. Suggested classification for stream trophic state: Distributions of temperate stream types by chlorophyll, total nitrogen and phosphorus. Water Research 32: 1455- 1462.

51. Gray, L. J., G. L. Macpherson, J. K. Koelliker, and W. K. Dodds. 1998. Hydrology and aquatic chemistry. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie 159- 176.

52. Gray, L. J., and W. K. Dodds. 1998. Structure and dynamics of aquatic communities. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie 177- 189.

53. Dodds, W. K. 1997. Distribution of runoff and rivers related to vegetative characteristics, latitude, and slope: A global perspective. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 16: 162- 168.

54. Dodds, W. K. 1997. Interspecific interactions: constructing a general, neutral model for interaction type. Oikos 78: 377- 383.

55. Strauss, E. A., and W. K. Dodds. 1997. Influence of protozoa and nutrient availability on nitrification rates in subsurface sediments. Microbial Ecology 34: 155- 165.

56. Dodds, W. K., M. K. Banks, C. S. Clenan, C. W. Rice, D. Sotomayor, E. A. Strauss, and W. Yu. 1996. Biological properties of soil and subsurface sediments under abandoned pasture and cropland. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 28: 837- 846.

57. Dodds, W. K., J. M. Blair, G. M. Henebry, J. K. Koelliker, R. A. Ramundo, and C. M. Tate. 1996. Nitrogen transport from tallgrass prairie watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality 25: 973- 981.

58. Dodds, W. K., and G. M. Henebry. 1996. The effect of density dependence on community structure. Ecological Modelling 93: 33- 42.

59. Dodds, W. K., R. E. Hutson, A. C. Eichem, M. E. Evans, D. A. Gudder, K. M. Fritz, and L. Gray. 1996. The relationship of floods, drying, flow and light to primary production and producer biomass in a prairie stream. Hydrobiologia 333: 151- 159.

60. Dodds, W. K., C. Randel, and C. Edler. 1996. Microcosms for aquifer research: Application to colonization of various sized particles by groundwater microorganisms. Groundwater 34: 756- 759.

61. Edler, C., and W. K. Dodds. 1996. The ecology of a subterranean isopod, Caecidotea tridentata. Freshwater Biology 35: 249- 259.

62. Dodds, W. K., and G. M. Henebry. 1995. Simulation of responses of community structure to species interactions driven by phenotypic change. Ecological Modelling 79: 85- 94.

63. Yu, W., W. K. Dodds, M. K. Banks,J. Skalsy, and E. Strauss. 1995. Optimal staining and sample storage time for direct microscopic enumeration of total and active bacteria in soil with two fluorescent dyes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 61: 3367- 3372.

64. Eichem, A., W. K. Dodds, C. M. Tate, and C. Edler. 1993. Microbial decomposition of elm and oak leaves in a karst aquifer. Applied Environmental Microbiology 59: 3592- 3596.

65. Meyer, J., T. Crocker, D. D'Angelo, W. Dodds, S. Findlay, M. Oswood, D. Repert, and D. Toetz. 1993. Stream Research in the LTER Network.
66. Edler, C.,and W. K. Dodds. 1992. Characterization of a groundwater community dominated by Asellus tridentata (Isopoda). Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Groundwater Ecology 91- 99.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Long Term Ecological Research Program at Konza Prairie Biological Station. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necesarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.