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Ecosystem Services, Global Diversity, and Rate of Stonefly Species Descriptions (Insecta: Plecoptera) by DeWalt, R Edward, Ower, Geoffrey Donald

“…Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) provide ecosystem services as indicators of water quality, as food for predators, as mediators of energy flow and nutrient…”
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Relative importance of Conservation Reserve Programs to aquatic insect biodiversity in an agricultural watershed in the Midwest, USA by South, Eric J., Edward DeWalt, R., Cao, Yong

“…The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) in the USA offer farmers government financial incentives to take…”
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Updated checklist, habitat affinities, and changes over time of the Indiana (USA) caddisfly fauna (Insecta, Trichoptera) by Houghton, David C., DeWalt, R. Edward

“…Based on recent collecting and a synthesis of ~100 years of historical data, 219 caddisfly species are reported from the state of Indiana. Seventeen species…”
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A DNA barcode library for North American Ephemeroptera: progress and prospects by Webb, Jeffrey M, Jacobus, Luke M, Funk, David H, Zhou, Xin, Kondratieff, Boris, Geraci, Christy J, DeWalt, R Edward, Baird, Donald J, Richard, Barton, Phillips, Iain, Hebert, Paul D N

“…DNA barcoding of aquatic macroinvertebrates holds much promise as a tool for taxonomic research and for providing the reliable identifications needed for water…”
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Perlesta armitagei n. sp. (Plecoptera: Perlidae): More cryptic diversity in darkly pigmented Perlesta from the eastern Nearctic by Grubbs, Scott A, Dewalt, R Edward

“…Perlesta Banks, 1906 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) is a genus of small, summer-emergent stoneflies known primarily from the eastern Nearctic. Thirty-two species are…”
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Phylogenomics of the North American Plecoptera by South, Eric J., Skinner, Rachel K., DeWalt, R. Edward, Kondratieff, Boris C., Johnson, Kevin P., Davis, Mark A., Lee, Jonathan J., Durfee, Richard S.

“…Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera) provide essential ecosystem services and are vital components of aquatic ecological systems worldwide. Despite this…”
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Plecoptera (Insecta) Diversity in Indiana: A Watershed-Based Analysis by Newman, Evan A., DeWalt, R. Edward, Grubbs, Scott A.

“…Plecoptera, an environmentally sensitive order of aquatic insects commonly used in water quality monitoring is experiencing decline across the globe. This…”
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Checklist of the caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) of the Upper Midwest region of the United States by Houghton, David C, DeWalt, R Edward, Hubbard, Todd, Schmude, Kurt L, Dimick, Jeffrey J, Holzenthal, Ralph W, Blahnik, Roger J, Snitgen, James L

“…Five hundred and fifty-two caddisfly species are reported from the Upper Midwest region of the United States, an area that includes 13 states and ~ 2 million…”
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A New Family of Stoneflies (Insecta: Plecoptera), Kathroperlidae, fam. n., with a Phylogenomic Analysis of the Paraperlinae (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) by South, Eric J., Skinner, Rachel K., DeWalt, R. Edward, Davis, Mark A., Johnson, Kevin P., Teslenko, Valentina A., Lee, Jonathan J., Malison, Rachel L., Hwang, Jeong Mi, Bae, Yeon Jae, Myers, Luke W.

“…Recent molecular analyses of transcriptome data from 94 species across 92 genera of North American Plecoptera identified the genus KathroperlaBanks, 1920 as…”
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A new stonefly species (Plecoptera, Perlidae) from the Interior Highlands USA, with morphological and molecular comparison to other congeneric species by South, Eric J, DeWalt, R Edward, Davis, Mark A, Thomas, Michael Jared

“…Thirty-one species of Nearctic Banks, 1906 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) are recognized. A new species is described from western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, USA,…”
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Plecoptera of Canada by Kondratieff, Boris C, DeWalt, R Edward, Verdone, Chris J

“…Currently, a total of 267 stonefly species are known for Canada. The biodiversity hotspot of Canadian stoneflies is British Columbia with at least 138 species,…”
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Towards a comprehensive barcode library for arctic life - Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada by Zhou, Xin, Adamowicz, Sarah J, Jacobus, Luke M, Dewalt, R Edward, Hebert, Paul Dn

“…This study reports progress in assembling a DNA barcode reference library for Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera ("EPTs") from a Canadian subarctic…”
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Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera on Isle Royale National Park, USA, compared to mainland species pool and size distribution by DeWalt, R Edward, South, Eric J

“…Extensive sampling for aquatic insects was conducted in the orders Ephemeroptera (mayflies), Plecoptera (stoneflies), and Trichoptera (caddisflies) (EPT) of…”
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Updated checklist of the Michigan (USA) caddisflies, with regional and habitat affinities by Houghton, David C, DeWalt, R Edward, Pytel, Angelica J, Brandin, Constance M, Rogers, Sarah E, Ruiter, David E, Bright, Ethan, Hudson, Patrick L, Armitage, Brian J

“…Based on examination of ~180,000 specimens from 695 collections of 443 localities collected from the 1930s to 2015 we report 295 species of caddisflies from…”
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Two million species catalogued by 500 experts by Costello, Mark John, DeWalt, R. Edward, Orrell, Thomas M., Banki, Olaf

“…Letter to the Editor…”
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If a tree falls in the forest: terrestrial habitat loss predicts caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) assemblages and functional feeding group biomass throughout rivers of the North-central United States by Houghton, David C., DeWalt, R. Edward

“…Context Understanding the specific natural and anthropogenic drivers of aquatic insect assemblages and feeding ecology is critical to managing aquatic…”
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Effects of Stream Temperature and Substrate Type on Emergence Patterns of Plecoptera and Trichoptera From Northeastern United States Headwater Streams by Cheney, Kristin N, Roy, Allison H, Smith, Robert F, DeWalt, R. Edward

“…The timing and spatial distribution of aquatic insect emergence is linked to the abiotic and biotic environment in streams. Studies of aquatic insect emergence…”
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Ohio USA stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera): species richness estimation, distribution of functional niche traits, drainage affiliations, and relationships to other states by Dewalt, R Edward, Cao, Yong, Tweddale, Tari, Grubbs, Scott A, Hinz, Leon, Pessino, Massimo, Robinson, Jason L

“…Ohio is an eastern USA state that historically was >70% covered in upland and mixed coniferous forest; about 60% of it glaciated by the Wisconsinan glacial…”
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The caddis aren’t alright: modeling Trichoptera richness in streams of the northcentral United States reveals substantial species losses by Houghton, David C., DeWalt, R. Edward

“…Despite the importance of caddisflies in aquatic ecosystems, few studies have assessed the most important variables affecting their species richness throughout…”
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Refugia and postglacial expansion ofAcroneuria frisoniStark & Brown (Plecoptera:Perlidae) in North America by Pessino, Massimo, Chabot, Ember T., Giordano, Rosanna, DeWalt, R. Edward

“…We used mitochondrial cytochromecoxidase subunit I to infer the demographic history ofAcroneuria frisoniStark & Brown, a widespread eastern North American…”
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