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Some papers in the pipeline and links to recent publications are below, or you can click here for a full publication list on Google Scholar.
*Equal contribution 
^Lab member


2022 & in progress
Borton, M.A., S.M. Collins, E.B. Graham, V.A. Garayburu-Caruso, A.E. Goldman, M. de Melo, L. Rentaria, J.C. Stegen. 2022. It takes a village: using a crowdsourced approach to investigate organic matter composition in global rivers through the lens of ecological theory. Frontiers in Water 4: 870453. DOI: 10.3389/frwa.2022.870453

Narr, C.F.^, P. Chernyavskiy and 
S.M. Collins. 2022. Partitioning macro- and micro-scale ecological processes using covariate-driven non-stationary spatial models. Ecological Applications 32: e02485. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2485


Oleksy, I.A.^, S.M. Collins, S.J. Sillen^, S. Topp, M. Austin, E.K. Hall, C.M. O'Reilly, X. Yang, M.R.V. Ross. Heterogeneous controls on lake color and trends across the high-elevation US Rocky Mountain region. In press, DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac939c

2021
Lapierre, J.F.*,
 S.M. Collins*, S.K. Oliver, E.H. Stanley and T. Wagner. 2021. Inconsistent browning of Northeastern US lakes despite increased precipitation and recovery from acidification. Ecosphere. DOI: 10:1002/ecs2.3415

2020
Lopez-Sepulcre, A, M. Bruneaux, S.M. Collins, R. El-Sabaawi, A.S. Flecker and S.A. Thomas. 2020. A new method to reconstruct quantitative food webs and nutrient flows from isotope tracer addition experiments. The American Naturalist 195: 964-985. DOI: 10.1086/708546

Schliep, E.M., S.M. Collins, S.R. Salazar, N.R. Lottig and E.H. Stanley. 2020. Data fusion model to identify environmental drivers and improve estimation of total nitrogen in lakes. Annals of Applied Statistics.

2019
Collins, S.M., S. Yuan, P.N. Tan, S.K. Oliver, J.F. Lapierre, K.S. Cheruvelil, C.E. Fergus, N.K. Skaff, J. Stachelek, T. Wagner, and P.A. Soranno.  2019. Winter precipitation and summer temperature predict lake ecosystem properties at macroscales. Water Resources Research 55: 2708-2721. DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023088
   
McCullough, I.M., K.S. Cheruvelil, S.M. Collins, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Geographic patterns of the climate sensitivity of lakes. Ecological Applications 29: e01836. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1836

Soranno, P.A., T. Wagner, S.M. Collins, J.F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, and S.K. Oliver. 2019. Spatial and temporal variation of ecosystem properties at macroscales. Ecology Letters 22: 1587-1598. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13346


Stanley, E.H., S. Salzaar, N.R. Lottig, E.M. Schliep, C.T. Filstrup and S.M. Collins. In Press. Comparison of total nitrogen data from direct and Kjeldahl-based approaches in integrated datasets. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10338

Stanley, E.H., S.M. Collins, N.R. Lottig, S.K. Oliver, K. Webster, K.S. Cheruvelil, and P.A. Soranno. 2019. Biases in lake water quality sampling and implications for macroscale reserach. Limnology and Oceanography 64: 1572-1585. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11136
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2018
Lapierre, J.F.,  S.M. Collins, D. Seekell, K.S. Cheruvelil, P.N. Tan, N.K. Skaff, Z. Taranu, C.E. Fergus and P.A. Soranno. 2018. The role of spatial structure in understanding the relationships between ecosystem properties at macroscales. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 1251-1263. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12781

Tank, J.L, E. Marti, T. Riis, D. von Schiller, A.J. Reisinger, W.K. Dodds, M.R. Whiles, L.R. Ashkenas, W.B. Bowden, S.M. Collins, C.L. Crenshaw, T.A. Crowl, N.A. Griffiths, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, B.M. Norman, E.J. Rosi, K.S. Simon, S.A. Thomas and J.R. Webster. 2018. Partitioning assimilatory nitrogen uptake in streams: an analysis of stable isotope tracer additions across continents. Ecological Monographs 88: 120-138. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1280


2017

Cheruvelil K.S., S. Yuan, K.E. Webster, P.N. Tan, J.F. Lapierre, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, C.E. Scott, E.N. Henry, P.A. Soranno, C.T. Filstrup, and T. Wagner. 2017. Creating multi-themed ecological regions for macroscale ecology: Testing a flexible, repeatable, and accessible clustering method.  Ecology and Evolution 7: 3046-3058.  DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2884
    
Collins, S.M., S.K. Oliver, J.F. Lapierre, E.H. Stanley, J.R. Jones, T. Wagner, and P.A. Soranno.  2017. Lake nutrient stoichiometry is less predictable than nutrient concentrations at regional and sub-continental scales. Ecological Applications 27: 1529-1540. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1545  
 
Lapierre, J.F., D. Seekell, C.T. Filstrup, S.M. Collins, C.E. Fergus, P.A. Soranno, and K.S. Cheruvelil. 2017. Continental-scale variation in controls of summer CO2 in United States lakes.  Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 122: 875-885. DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003525
  
Norman, B.C., M.R. Whiles, S.M. Collins, A.S. Flecker, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, E.J. Rosi-Marshall, L.R. Ashkenas, W.B. Bowden,  C.L. Crenshaw, T.A. Crowl, W.K. Dodds, R.O. Hall, R. El-Sabaawi, N.A. Griffiths, E. Marti, W.H. McDowell, S.D. Peterson, H.M. Rantala, T. Riis, K.S. Simon, J.L. Tank, S.A. Thomas, D. von Schiller and J.R. Webster. 2017. Drivers of nitrogen transfer efficiencies in stream food webs across continents.  Ecology 98: 3044-3055. DOI:10.1002/ecy.2009  
               
Oliver, S.K., S.M. Collins, P.A. Soranno, T. Wagner, E.H. Stanley, J.R. Jones, C.A. Stow, N.R. Lottig. 2017. Unexpected stasis in a changing world: Lake nutrient and chlorophyll trends since 1990. Global Change Biology 23:5455-5467. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13810
    
Soranno, P.A. and 79 others listed alphabetically. 2017. LAGOS-NE: A multi-scaled geospatial and temporal database of lake ecological context and water quality for thousands of U.S. lakes. Gigascience 6: 1-5. DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/gix101
  
Warren, D.R., S.M. Collins, E.M. Purvis, M.J. Kaylor and H.A, Bechtold. 2017. Spatial variability in light yields co-limitation of primary production by both light and nutrients in a forested stream ecosystem. Ecosystems 20: 198-210. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-0024-9



2016

Collins, S.M., J.P. Sparks, S.A. Thomas, S.A. Wheatley and A.S. Flecker. 2016. Increased light availability reduces the importance of bacterial carbon in headwater stream food webs. Ecosystems 19: 396-410. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9940-3

Collins, S.M., S.A. Thomas, T. Heatherly II, K.L. MacNeill, A.O.H.C. Leduc, A. Lopez-Sepulcre, B. Lamphere, R.W. El-Sabaawi, C.M. Pringle, D.N. Reznick, and A.S. Flecker. 2016. Fish introductions and light modulate food web fluxes in tropical streams: a whole-ecosystem experimental approach. Ecology 97: 3154-3166. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1530

Collins, S.M., T.J. Kohler, S.A. Thomas, W.W. Fetzer and A.S. Flecker. 2016. The importance of terrestrial subsidies in stream food webs varies along a stream size gradient.  Oikos 125: 674-685.  DOI: 10.1111/oik.02713  
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