Hello,
Our group in the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would like your help. We are conducting a systematic review of stream algae and macroinvertebrate responses to nutrients and ask for any relevant studies or reports to consider.
The focus of our review is ONLY on total nitrogen and total phosphorus and its effects on chlorophyll-a, diatoms, and benthic macroinvertebrates in flowing waters. We have completed searches of standard publication databases based on these parameters, but want to ensure that we have not missed any relevant publications that include primary data on these relationships (i.e., not reviews or meta-analyses).
If you know of any relevant studies, particularly difficult-to-find reports or older publications, please send a citation (for easily obtainable works) or a PDF to: bennett.micah 'at symbol' epa.gov or post a response here. PLEASE LIMIT THE NUMBER OF STUDIES TO 10. If you have more than 10 studies for consideration, we can speak directly to better assess the relevance of the studies.
Please send any relevant materials by 31 August 2017.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Best wishes,
Micah Bennett, Ph.D.
You have probably done it already, but I generally choose a few most relevant older (yes, more than 10 years) papers and work forward in Science Citation Index. If you have not, I suspect that the part of your study involving benthic macroinvertebrates would benefit from it.
Hi Lewis - thanks for your suggestions. The Science Citation Index is included in our Web of Science search and we aren't limiting based on date so hopefully we've already taken advantage of those papers. Best, Micah
Hi Micah,
Ryan Douglas, a Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station scientist (Emeritus) is the editor of a General Technical Report that is presently in review that in part should contain many references addressing your research question as it relates to research done on Forest Service Experimental Forests nation wide. He can be contacted at: dfryan 'at symbol' fs.fed.us. I have contributed a chapter on Priest River Experimental Forest, Idaho in this manuscript and will forward the relevant articles that I cited to the email address that you have provided.
Have a look at our recent paper (Mackay et al., 2020) on this topic. You can find it on our DOMAINE project paper on researchgate, and on my list of publications.
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