Publications
2017
Vanni, M.J., et al. 2017. A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology 98:1475.
2016
Halvorson, H. M., G.E. Small. 2016. Observational field studies are not appropriate tests of consumer stoichiometric homeostasis. Freshwater Science 35: 1103-1116.
Loken, L.C., G.E. Small, J.C. Finlay, R.W. Sterner, E.H. Stanley. 2016. Nitrogen cycling in a freshwater estuary. Biogeochemistry 127: 199-216.
Small, G.E., J.C. Finlay, R.M.L. McKay, M.J. Rozmarynowycz, S. Brovold, G.S. Bullerjahn, K. Spokas, R.W. Sterner. 2016. Large differences in potential denitrification and sediment microbial communities across the Laurentian great lakes. Biogeochemistry 128: 353-368.
Small, G.E., M. Ardón, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, C.M. Pringle, A. Ramírez, F.J. Triska. 2016. Phosphorus retention in a lowland neotropical stream following an eight-year phosphorus enrichment experiment. Freshwater Science 35: 1-11.
2015
Snyder, M.N., G.E. Small, and C.M. Pringle. 2015. Diet-switching by omnivorous freshwater shrimp diminishes differences in nutrient recycling rates and body stoichiometry across a food quality gradient. Freshwater Biology 60: 526-536.
Sun, X., G.E. Small, X. Zhou, H. Li, and C. Liu. 2015. Variation in C:N:S stochiometry and nutrient storage related to body size in a holometabolous insect (Curculio davidi) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larva. Journal of Insect Science 15. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iev004. link
Pringle, C. M., E.P. Anderson, M. Ardon, R. Bixby, S. Connelly, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, P. Paaby, A. Ramirez, G. E. Small, M. Snyder, and F.J. Triska. 2015. The Riverine Ecosystems. In: M. Kappelle and L. Diego Gomez (eds.) Ecosystems of Costa Rica. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
2014
Ganong, C., G.E. Small, M. Ardón, W.H. McDowell, D. Genereux, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2014. Interbasin flow of geothermally modified ground water stabilizes stream exports of biologically important solutes against variation in precipitation. Freshwater Science 34: 276-282.
Small, G. E., H. Baulch, H. Bechtold, K. Holzer, S. Newell, and R. Vaquer. Headwaters to estuaries: Complex responses to cultural eutrophication at the watershed scale. 2014. Eco-DAS IX Symposium Proceedings. Waco, TX: Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. pdf
Small, G.E., R.W. Sterner, and J.C. Finlay. 2014. An ecological network analysis of nitrogen cycling in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Ecological Modelling 293: 150-160.
2013
Sun, X., A.D. Kay, H. Kang, G.E. Small, G. Liu, X. Zhou, S. Yin, and C. Liu. 2013. Correlated biogeographic variation of magnesium across trophic levels in a terrestrial food chain. PloS one 8, e78444. link
Finlay, J.C., G.E. Small, and R.W. Sterner. 2013. Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes. Science 342: 247-250. link
Small, G.E., J.H. Duff, P.J. Torres, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Insect emergence as a nitrogen flux in Neotropical streams: Comparisons with microbial denitrification across a stream phosphorus gradient. Journal of Freshwater Science 32: 1178-1187. link
Ardón, M., J.H. Duff, A. Ramirez, G.E. Small, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Experimental acidification of two biogeochemically-distinct neotropical streams: Buffering mechanisms and macroinvertebrate drift. Science of the Total Environment 443: 267-277. link
Small, G.E., J.B. Cotner, J.C. Finlay, R.A. Stark, and R.W. Sterner. 2013. Nitrogen transformations at the sediment-water interface across redox gradients in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Hydrobiologia 731: 95-108. link
Small, G.E., G.S. Bullerjahn, R.W. Sterner, B.F.N. Beall, S. Brovold, J.C. Finlay, R.M.L. McKay, M. Mukherjee. 2013. Rates and controls of nitrification in a large oligotrophic lake. Limnology & Oceanography 58: 276-286. link
Small, G.E., P.J. Torres, L.M. Schweizer, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Importance of terrestrial arthropod subsidies in lowland neotropical rain forest stream ecosystems. Biotropica 45: 80-87. link
*received 2014 Biotropica Outstanding Paper Award
Sun, X., X. Zhou, G.E. Small, R. Sterner, H.Z. Kang, and C. Liu. 2013. Energy storage and C:N:P variation in a holometabolous insect (Curculio davidi Fairmaire) larva across a climate gradient. Journal of Insect Physiology 59: 408-415. link
2012
Small, G. E., M. Ardón, A. P. Jackman, J. H. Duff, F. J. Triska, A. Ramirez, M. Snyder, and C. M. Pringle. 2012. Rainfall-driven amplification of seasonal acidification in poorly buffered tropical streams. Ecosystems 15: 974-985. link
Riskin, S. H., G.E. Small, R. Mikkelsen, A. Bateman, J. Cooper, O. S. Hanserud, P. Haygarth, C. Lapoumadares, M. McCrackin, G. Metson, and S. Remington. 2012. Managing phosphorus in urban and agricultural landscapes. In: K. Wyant, J. Corman, and J. Elser (eds.) Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Oxford University Press.
2011
Small, G. E., R. Bixby, C. Kazanci, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Partitioning stoichiometric components of epilithic biofilm using mixing models. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods 9: 185-193. link
Davis, J., A. D. Rosemond, and G. E. Small. 2011. Increasing donor ecosystem productivity decreases terrestrial consumer reliance on a stream resource subsidy. Oecologia 167: 821-834. link
Small, G. E., M. Pyron, J. H. Duff, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Emergent role of the fish, Astyanax aeneus (Characidae), as a Keystone Nutrient Recycler in low- nutrient Neotropical streams, Costa Rica. Ecology 92: 386-397. link
Small, G.E., J. P. Wares, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Differences in phosphorus demand among detritivorous chironomid larvae reflect intraspecific adaptations to differences in food resource stoichiometry across lowland tropical streams. Limnology & Oceanography 56: 268-278. pdf
Sterner, R.W., G.E. Small, and J. Hood. 2011. Mass balance constrains material flows in ecosystems. Nature Education Knowledge 2:11. link
2010
Small, G. E. and C. M. Pringle. 2010. Deviation from strict homeostasis across multiple trophic levels in an invertebrate consumer assemblage exposed to high chronic phosphorus enrichment in a Neotropical stream. Oecologia 162: 581-590. link
Small, G. E. 2010. Nutrient dynamics in Neotropical stream food webs: Effects of stream phosphorus loading on consumer physiology, and the role of consumers in recycling nutrients. Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Georgia. pdf
2009
Small, G. E., A. M. Helton, and C. Kazanci. 2009. Can consumer stoichiometric regulation control nutrient spiraling in streams? Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 747-764. pdf
2008
Small, G. E., C. M. Pringle, F. J. Triska, J. H. Duff, A. P. Jackman, M. Hidalgo, A. Ramírez, and M. Ardón. 2008. The dynamics of phosphorus retention during an eight-year P-addition in a Neotropical headwater stream. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 30:551- 554. pdf
Vanni, M.J., et al. 2017. A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology 98:1475.
2016
Halvorson, H. M., G.E. Small. 2016. Observational field studies are not appropriate tests of consumer stoichiometric homeostasis. Freshwater Science 35: 1103-1116.
Loken, L.C., G.E. Small, J.C. Finlay, R.W. Sterner, E.H. Stanley. 2016. Nitrogen cycling in a freshwater estuary. Biogeochemistry 127: 199-216.
Small, G.E., J.C. Finlay, R.M.L. McKay, M.J. Rozmarynowycz, S. Brovold, G.S. Bullerjahn, K. Spokas, R.W. Sterner. 2016. Large differences in potential denitrification and sediment microbial communities across the Laurentian great lakes. Biogeochemistry 128: 353-368.
Small, G.E., M. Ardón, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, C.M. Pringle, A. Ramírez, F.J. Triska. 2016. Phosphorus retention in a lowland neotropical stream following an eight-year phosphorus enrichment experiment. Freshwater Science 35: 1-11.
2015
Snyder, M.N., G.E. Small, and C.M. Pringle. 2015. Diet-switching by omnivorous freshwater shrimp diminishes differences in nutrient recycling rates and body stoichiometry across a food quality gradient. Freshwater Biology 60: 526-536.
Sun, X., G.E. Small, X. Zhou, H. Li, and C. Liu. 2015. Variation in C:N:S stochiometry and nutrient storage related to body size in a holometabolous insect (Curculio davidi) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larva. Journal of Insect Science 15. doi: 10.1093/jisesa/iev004. link
Pringle, C. M., E.P. Anderson, M. Ardon, R. Bixby, S. Connelly, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, P. Paaby, A. Ramirez, G. E. Small, M. Snyder, and F.J. Triska. 2015. The Riverine Ecosystems. In: M. Kappelle and L. Diego Gomez (eds.) Ecosystems of Costa Rica. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois.
2014
Ganong, C., G.E. Small, M. Ardón, W.H. McDowell, D. Genereux, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2014. Interbasin flow of geothermally modified ground water stabilizes stream exports of biologically important solutes against variation in precipitation. Freshwater Science 34: 276-282.
Small, G. E., H. Baulch, H. Bechtold, K. Holzer, S. Newell, and R. Vaquer. Headwaters to estuaries: Complex responses to cultural eutrophication at the watershed scale. 2014. Eco-DAS IX Symposium Proceedings. Waco, TX: Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. pdf
Small, G.E., R.W. Sterner, and J.C. Finlay. 2014. An ecological network analysis of nitrogen cycling in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Ecological Modelling 293: 150-160.
2013
Sun, X., A.D. Kay, H. Kang, G.E. Small, G. Liu, X. Zhou, S. Yin, and C. Liu. 2013. Correlated biogeographic variation of magnesium across trophic levels in a terrestrial food chain. PloS one 8, e78444. link
Finlay, J.C., G.E. Small, and R.W. Sterner. 2013. Human influences on nitrogen removal in lakes. Science 342: 247-250. link
Small, G.E., J.H. Duff, P.J. Torres, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Insect emergence as a nitrogen flux in Neotropical streams: Comparisons with microbial denitrification across a stream phosphorus gradient. Journal of Freshwater Science 32: 1178-1187. link
Ardón, M., J.H. Duff, A. Ramirez, G.E. Small, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Experimental acidification of two biogeochemically-distinct neotropical streams: Buffering mechanisms and macroinvertebrate drift. Science of the Total Environment 443: 267-277. link
Small, G.E., J.B. Cotner, J.C. Finlay, R.A. Stark, and R.W. Sterner. 2013. Nitrogen transformations at the sediment-water interface across redox gradients in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Hydrobiologia 731: 95-108. link
Small, G.E., G.S. Bullerjahn, R.W. Sterner, B.F.N. Beall, S. Brovold, J.C. Finlay, R.M.L. McKay, M. Mukherjee. 2013. Rates and controls of nitrification in a large oligotrophic lake. Limnology & Oceanography 58: 276-286. link
Small, G.E., P.J. Torres, L.M. Schweizer, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Importance of terrestrial arthropod subsidies in lowland neotropical rain forest stream ecosystems. Biotropica 45: 80-87. link
*received 2014 Biotropica Outstanding Paper Award
Sun, X., X. Zhou, G.E. Small, R. Sterner, H.Z. Kang, and C. Liu. 2013. Energy storage and C:N:P variation in a holometabolous insect (Curculio davidi Fairmaire) larva across a climate gradient. Journal of Insect Physiology 59: 408-415. link
2012
Small, G. E., M. Ardón, A. P. Jackman, J. H. Duff, F. J. Triska, A. Ramirez, M. Snyder, and C. M. Pringle. 2012. Rainfall-driven amplification of seasonal acidification in poorly buffered tropical streams. Ecosystems 15: 974-985. link
Riskin, S. H., G.E. Small, R. Mikkelsen, A. Bateman, J. Cooper, O. S. Hanserud, P. Haygarth, C. Lapoumadares, M. McCrackin, G. Metson, and S. Remington. 2012. Managing phosphorus in urban and agricultural landscapes. In: K. Wyant, J. Corman, and J. Elser (eds.) Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Oxford University Press.
2011
Small, G. E., R. Bixby, C. Kazanci, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Partitioning stoichiometric components of epilithic biofilm using mixing models. Limnology & Oceanography: Methods 9: 185-193. link
Davis, J., A. D. Rosemond, and G. E. Small. 2011. Increasing donor ecosystem productivity decreases terrestrial consumer reliance on a stream resource subsidy. Oecologia 167: 821-834. link
Small, G. E., M. Pyron, J. H. Duff, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Emergent role of the fish, Astyanax aeneus (Characidae), as a Keystone Nutrient Recycler in low- nutrient Neotropical streams, Costa Rica. Ecology 92: 386-397. link
Small, G.E., J. P. Wares, and C. M. Pringle. 2011. Differences in phosphorus demand among detritivorous chironomid larvae reflect intraspecific adaptations to differences in food resource stoichiometry across lowland tropical streams. Limnology & Oceanography 56: 268-278. pdf
Sterner, R.W., G.E. Small, and J. Hood. 2011. Mass balance constrains material flows in ecosystems. Nature Education Knowledge 2:11. link
2010
Small, G. E. and C. M. Pringle. 2010. Deviation from strict homeostasis across multiple trophic levels in an invertebrate consumer assemblage exposed to high chronic phosphorus enrichment in a Neotropical stream. Oecologia 162: 581-590. link
Small, G. E. 2010. Nutrient dynamics in Neotropical stream food webs: Effects of stream phosphorus loading on consumer physiology, and the role of consumers in recycling nutrients. Ph.D. dissertation. The University of Georgia. pdf
2009
Small, G. E., A. M. Helton, and C. Kazanci. 2009. Can consumer stoichiometric regulation control nutrient spiraling in streams? Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 747-764. pdf
2008
Small, G. E., C. M. Pringle, F. J. Triska, J. H. Duff, A. P. Jackman, M. Hidalgo, A. Ramírez, and M. Ardón. 2008. The dynamics of phosphorus retention during an eight-year P-addition in a Neotropical headwater stream. Verhandlungen Internationale Vereinigung für theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 30:551- 554. pdf