Steven A. Thomas

University of Pennsylvania — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

35h-index5.4kcitations124works0.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics(54), Fish Ecology and Management Studies(51), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology(35), Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies(28), Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes(13)

Publications124 total

Unique unbiased median solution for even sample sizes
2025Open Access
Hydrology has stronger effects than periphyton stoichiometry on lotic invertebrate functional diversity across North America
Freshwater Science·2024
Longitudinal effects of land-cover transitions on the periphyton community of a tropical stream
Journal of Limnology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Invertebrate metrics based on few abundant taxa outperform functional and taxonomic composition as indicators of agricultural impacts in Atlantic rainforest streams
Hydrobiologia·2023· 2 cited
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Uptake Stoichiometry Tracks Supply Ratio During 2-year Whole-Ecosystem Nutrient Additions
Ecosystems·2022· 3 cited
Reducing adverse impacts of Amazon hydropower expansion
Science·2022· 168 citedOpen Access
Seasonal Variation in Terrestrial Invertebrate Subsidies to Tropical Streams and Implications for the Feeding Ecology of Hart’s Rivulus (Anablepsoides hartii)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
The Nutrient Spiraling Concept
Elsevier eBooks·2022· 13 cited
Comparing spiraling‐ and transport‐based approaches to estimate in‐stream nutrient uptake length from pulse additions
Ecohydrology·2021· 3 cited
Nitrogen supply and physical disturbance shapes Arctic stream nitrogen uptake through effects on metabolic activity
Freshwater Biology·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
The experimental range extension of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) influences the metabolic activity of tropical streams
Oecologia·2021· 2 cited
Metabolic outputs Myrstener et al 2021 FWB
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2021Open Access
Metabolic outputs Myrstener et al 2021 FWB
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2021Open Access
Residence Time in Hyporheic Bioactive Layers Explains Nutrient Uptake in Streams
2021Open Access
Residence Time in Hyporheic Bioactive Layers Explains Nitrate Uptake in Streams
Water Resources Research·2020· 21 citedOpen Access
Temperature dependence of metabolic rate in tropical and temperate aquatic insects: Support for the Climate Variability Hypothesis in mayflies but not stoneflies
Global Change Biology·2020· 59 cited
Effects of riparian deforestation on benthic invertebrate community and leaf processing in Atlantic forest streams
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation·2020· 34 citedOpen Access
Weather whiplash in agricultural regions drives deterioration of water quality
UNC Libraries·2020Open Access
A New Method to Reconstruct Quantitative Food Webs and Nutrient Flows from Isotope Tracer Addition Experiments
The American Naturalist·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
DataSet S1_Li_et_al_DEF.xlsx
Figshare·2020Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Alexander S. Flecker(19), Jackson R. Webster(12), H. Maurice Valett(10), Eugênia Zandonà(8), David N. Reznick(8), Patrick J. Mulholland(8), Rana W. El‐Sabaawi(8), Michael C. Marshall(7), Catherine M. Pringle(6), Stephen K. Hamilton(6), Andrea C. Encalada(6), N. LeRoy Poff(6), J. Denis Newbold(6), Sarah M. Collins(6), Nancy B. Grimm(5), Eugènia Martı́(5), Juan M. Guayasamin(5), Boris C. Kondratieff(5), Cameron K. Ghalambor(5), W. Chris Funk(5)