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| Val H SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of Kansas Country: USA Publications
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Effects of resource supplies on the structure and function of microbial communitiesVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045, USA
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 81:99-106. 2002....- Effects of three pharmaceutical and personal care products on natural freshwater algal assemblagesBrittan A Wilson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
Environ Sci Technol 37:1713-9. 2003..These changes could result in shifts in both the nutrient processing capacity and the natural food web structure of these streams... - Inedible producers in food webs: controls on stoichiometric food quality and composition of grazersSpencer R Hall
School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Am Nat 167:628-37. 2006..Both lines of inference suggest that interactions between stoichiometry and plant heterogeneity may shape plankton communities... 
The ecology of algal biodiesel productionVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 25:301-9. 2010..We also demonstrate how key principles drawn from the science of ecology can be used to design efficient pond-based microalgal systems for the production of biodiesel fuels...- Vitamin C deficiency is an under-diagnosed contributor to degenerative disc disease in the elderlyVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Med Hypotheses 74:695-7. 2010..Aggressive monitoring of patient ascorbate status, as well as more finely-calibrated RDAs for vitamin C that explicitly take into account the patient's age, may be required if aging-related degenerative disk disease is to be minimised... - Eutrophication of freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems: a global problemVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 10:126-39. 2003..This review examines how eutrophication influences the biomass and species composition of algae in both freshwater and costal marine systems... 
Phytoplankton species richness scales consistently from laboratory microcosms to the world's oceansVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:4393-6. 2005..In addition, they confirm that patterns in microbial diversity are strongly consistent with those that have been repeatedly reported in the literature for macroorganisms...- Eutrophication science: where do we go from here?Val H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 24:201-7. 2009..In addition, it will be important to resolve ongoing debates about the optimal design of nutrient loading controls as a water quality management strategy for estuarine and coastal marine ecosystems... - Microbial diversity-productivity relationships in aquatic ecosystemsVal H Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 62:181-6. 2007..Microbial ecology and the general science of ecology are thus continuing to converge... - Microbial biogeography: putting microorganisms on the mapJennifer B Hughes Martiny
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 80 Waterman Street, Box G W, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 4:102-12. 2006..However, recent studies also dispute the idea that 'everything is everywhere'. We also consider how the processes that generate and maintain biogeographic patterns in macroorganisms could operate in the microbial world... - Development of predictive models for geosmin-related taste and odor in Kansas, USA, drinking water reservoirsAndrew R Dzialowski
Central Plains Center for BioAssessment, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA
Water Res 43:2829-40. 2009..Growth limitation by inorganic phosphorus appeared to be the primary determinant of geosmin production by algal cells in these reservoirs... - A comparison of taxon co-occurrence patterns for macro- and microorganismsM Claire Horner-Devine
School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
Ecology 88:1345-53. 2007.... - N:P ratios, light limitation, and cyanobacterial dominance in a subtropical lake impacted by non-point source nutrient pollutionKarl E Havens
South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida 33406, USA
Environ Pollut 122:379-90. 2003..In the near-shore regions of this shallow lake, low N:P ratios potentially favor blooms of N2-fixing cyanobacteria, but their occurrence in the pelagic zone is restricted by low irradiance and lack of stable stratification... - Grazers, producer stoichiometry, and the light : nutrient hypothesis revisitedSpencer R Hall
Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East 3rd Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
Ecology 88:1142-52. 2007.... - Responses of a bacterial pathogen to phosphorus limitation of its aquatic invertebrate hostPaul C Frost
Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario K9J7B8 Canada
Ecology 89:313-8. 2008..Our results provide strong evidence that elemental food quality can significantly influence the incidence and intensity of infectious disease in invertebrate hosts... - Extrinsic and intrinsic controls of zooplankton diversity in lakesDag O Hessen
University of Oslo, Department of Biology, Norway
Ecology 87:433-43. 2006....