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James H. Thorp
Researcher at University of Kansas
Publications - 160
Citations - 9043
James H. Thorp is an academic researcher from University of Kansas. The author has contributed to research in topics: River ecosystem & Food web. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 158 publications receiving 8400 citations. Previous affiliations of James H. Thorp include Cornell University & Fordham University.
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Ecology and classification of North American freshwater invertebrates
James H. Thorp,Alan P. Covich +1 more
TL;DR: Covich and Covich as discussed by the authors introduced freshwater invertebrates and classified them into five classes: freshwater cnidaria, leech, polychaetes, and acanthobdellids.
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The riverine ecosystem synthesis : Biocomplexity in river networks across space and time
TL;DR: The Riverine Entropies Synthesis (RES) as discussed by the authors is an integrated, heuristic model of lotic biocomplexity across spatiotemporal scales from headwaters to large rivers.
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The riverine productivity model: an heuristic view of carbon sources and organic processing in large river ecosystems
James H. Thorp,Michael D. Delong +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose the riverine productivity model (RPM) which stresses the varying importance of local autochthonous production and direct organic inputs from the riparian zone.
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Dominance of autochthonous autotrophic carbon in food webs of heterotrophic rivers
James H. Thorp,Michael D. Delong +1 more
TL;DR: Reviewed, stable isotope data from tropical, temperate, and arctic rivers provide evidence consistent with the revised riverine productivity model (RPM), showing that autochthonous primary production entering food webs via algal-grazer and decomposer pathways supports the majority of metazoan biomass.
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How important are terrestrial organic carbon inputs for secondary production in freshwater ecosystems
Michael T. Brett,Stuart E. Bunn,Sudeep Chandra,Aaron W. E. Galloway,Fen Guo,Martin J. Kainz,Paula Kankaala,Danny C. P. Lau,Timothy P. Moulton,Mary E. Power,Joseph B. Rasmussen,Sami J. Taipale,James H. Thorp,John D. Wehr +13 more
TL;DR: A large number of freshwater systems receive substantial inputs of terrestrial organic matter, and terrestrial derived dissolved organic carbon inputs can modify light availability, the spatial distribution and the biophysical properties of the system.