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Publications: (recent)

Jenkins, C. and K. Suberkropp. 1995. The influence of water chemistry on the enzymatic degradation of leaves in streams. Freshwater Biology 33:245-253.

Suberkropp, K. and E. Chauvet. 1995. Regulation of leaf breakdown by fungi in streams: Influences of water chemistry. Ecology 76:1433-1445.

Suberkropp, K. 1995. The influence of nutrients on fungal growth, productivity, and sporulation during leaf breakdown in streams. Canadian Journal of Botany 73 (Suppl. 1):S1361-S1369.

Suberkropp, K. and H. Weyers. 1996. Application of fungal and bacterial production methodologies to decomposing leaves in streams. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62:1610-1615.

Weyers, H. S. and K. Suberkropp. 1996. Fungal and bacterial production during the breakdown of yellow poplar leaves in two streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15: 408-420.

Gessner, M. O., K. Suberkropp, and E. Chauvet. 1997. Decomposition of plant litter by fungi in marine and freshwater ecosystems. In: D. T. Wicklow and B. E. Söderström (eds.), The Mycota, Vol. IV, Environmental and Microbial Relationships, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 303-322.

Suberkropp, K. 1997. Annual production of leaf-decaying fungi in a woodland stream. Freshwater Biology 37:169-178.

Kuehn, K. A., P. F. Churchill, and K. Suberkropp. 1998. Osmoregulatory responses of fungi inhabiting standing-dead litter of the freshwater emergent macrophyte, Juncus effusus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 64:607-612.

Kuehn, K. A. and K. Suberkropp. 1998. Diel fluctuations in microbial activity associated with standing-dead litter of the freshwater emergent macrophyte Juncus effusus L. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 14:171-182

Chauvet E. and K. Suberkropp. 1998. Temperature and sporulation of aquatic hyphomycetes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64:1522-1525.

Suberkropp, K. 1998. Effects of dissolved nutrients on aquatic hyphomycetes growing on leaf litter. Mycological Research 102:998-1002.

Kuehn, K. A. and K. Suberkropp. 1998. Decomposition of standing litter of the freshwater emergent macrophyte, Juncus effusus L. Freshwater Biology 40:717-728.

Suberkropp, K. 1998. Microorganisms and organic matter processing. In: R. J. Naiman, and R. E. Bilby, (eds), River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion, Springer Verlag, New York, 120-143.

Kuehn, K. A., M. O. Gessner, R. G. Wetzel, and K. Suberkropp. 1999. Decomposition and CO₂ evolution from standing litter of the emergent macrophyte Erianthus giganteus. Microbial Ecology 38:50-57.

Kuehn, K. A., M. J. Lemke, K. Suberkropp, and R. G. Wetzel. 2000. Microbial biomass and production associated with decaying leaf litter of the emergent macrophyte Juncus effusus. Limnology and Oceanography 45:862-870.

Suberkropp, K. 2000. Estimating production of litter-decomposing fungi in streams from rates of acetate incorporation into ergosterol. Verhandlungen der Inernationale Vereinigung fur theoretische und angewandte Limnologie 27:2426-2429.

Grattan, R. M. and K. Suberkropp. 2001. Effects of nutrient enrichment on yellow poplar leaf decomposition and fungal activity in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20:33-43.

Suberkropp, K. 2001. Fungal growth, production, and sporulation during leaf decomposition in two streams. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67:5063-5068.

Gulis, V. and K. Suberkropp. 2003. The effect of excluding plant litter on the aquatic hyphomycete conidia in a headwater stream. Czech Mycology 54:249-260.

Gulis, V. and K. Suberkropp. 2003. Leaf litter decomposition and microbial activity in nutrient-enriched and unaltered reaches of a headwater stream. Freshwater Biology 48:123-134.

Gulis, V. and K. Suberkropp. 2003. Interactions between stream fungi and bacteria associated with decompoing leaf litter at different levels of nutrient availability. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 30:149-157.

Gulis, V. and K. Suberkropp. 2003. Effect of inorganic nutrients on relative importance of fungi and bacteria in carbon flow from submerged decomposing leaf litter. Microbial Ecology 45:11-19.

Methvin B. R. and K. Suberkropp. 2003. Annual production of leaf-decaying fungi in 2 streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 22:554-564.

Suberkropp, K. 2003. Methods for examining interactions between freshwater fungi and macroinvertebrates. Fungal Diversity Research Series 10:159-171.

Gulis, V. and K. Suberkropp. 2004. Effects of whole-stream nutrient enrichment on aquatic hyphomycete conidia in transport. Mycologia 96: 57-65.

Carter, M. D. and K. Suberkropp. 2004. Respiration and annual fungal production associated with decomposing leaf litter in two streams. Freshwater Biology 49: 1112-1122.

Gulis, V., A. D. Rosemond, K. Suberkropp, H. S. Weyers, and J. P. Benstead. 2004. The effect of nutrient enrichment on the decomposition of wood and associated microbial activity in streams. Freshwater Biology. 49:1437-1447.

Benstead, J. P., L. A. Deegan, B. J. Peterson, A. D. Huryn, W. B. Bowden, K. Suberkropp, K. M. Buzby, A. C. Green, and J. A. Vacca. 2005. Responses of a beaded Arctic stream to short-term N and P fertilisation. Freshwater Biology 50:277-290

Suberkropp, K. 2005. Pectin-degrading enzymes: polygalacturonase and pectin lyase. In M. A. S. Graça, F. Bärlocher, & M. O. Gessner (eds.), Methods to study litter decomposition. A practical guide. Springer

Suberkropp, K. and M. O. Gessner. 2005. Acetate incorporation into ergosterol to determine fungal growth rates and production. In M. A. S. Graça, F. Bärlocher, & M. O. Gessner (eds.), Methods to study litter decomposition. A practical guide pp 197-202. Springer.

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Keller Suberkropp, ksuberkp (at) biology.as.ua.edu Last updated Aug. 26, 2004