All Publications

Bruesewitz, D.A., J.L. Tank, and S.K. Hamilton. Accepted pending revision. Seasonal effects of zebra mussels on littoral N transformation rates in Gull Lake, Michigan. Freshwater Biology.

Hall, R.O. Jr., J.L. Tank, D.J. Sobota, P.J. Mulholland, J.M. O’Brien, W.K. Dodds, J.R. Webster, H.M. Valett, G.C. Poole, B.J. Peterson, J.L. Meyer, W.H. McDowell, S.L. Johnson, S.K. Hamilton, N.B. Grimm, S.V. Gregory, C.N. Dahm, L.W. Cooper, L.R. Ashkenas, S.M. Thomas, R.W. Sheibley, J.D. Potter, B.R. Niederlehner, L.T. Johnson, A.M. Helton, C. Crenshaw, A.J. Burgin, M J. Bernot, J.J. Beaulieu, and C. Arango.  Accepted pending revision. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: 1. Total uptake. Limnology and Oceanography.

Mulholland, P.J., R.O. Hall, Jr., D.J. Sobota, W.K. Dodds, S. Findlay, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, W.H. McDowell, J.M. O’Brien, J.L. Tank, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, S.V. Gregory, S.L. Johnson, J.L. Meyer, B.J. Peterson, G.C. Poole, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, C. Arango, J.J. Beaulieu, M J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, A.M. Helton, L.T. Johnson, B.R. Niederlehner, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, and S.M. Thomas. Accepted pending revision. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: 2. Denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography.

Hamilton, S.K., D.A. Bruesewitz, G.P. Horst, and O. Sarnelle. Accepted pending revision. Biogenic calcite-phosphorus precipitation as a negative feedback to lake eutrophication. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 

Payne, E.K., A.J. Burgin, and S.K. Hamilton. Accepted pending revision. Nitrate stimulation of sulfur oxidation in freshwaters: evidence from manipulation of sediment nitrate using porewater equilibrators.  Aquatic Microbial Ecology.

Ogrinc, N., R. Markovics, T. Kanduc, L.M. Walter, and S.K. Hamilton. In press. Sources and transport of carbon and nitrogen in the Sava River watershed, a major tributary of the Danube River. Applied Geochemistry.

Burgin, A.J. and S.K. Hamilton. In press. NO3- driven SO42- production in freshwater ecosystems: implications for N and S cycling. Ecosystems.

Hamilton, S.K. In press. Flood plains. Entry 52 for the Rivers and Streams volume of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.  Elsevier.

Hamilton, S.K. In press. Floodplain wetlands of large river systems. Entry 65 for the Wetlands volume of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.  Elsevier.

Arango, C.P., J.L. Tank, L.T. Johnson, and S.K. Hamilton. 2008. Assimilatory uptake rather than nitrification and denitrification determines nitrogen removal patterns in streams of varying land use. Limnology and Oceanography 53: 2558-2572.

Whitmire, S.L. and S.K. Hamilton. 2008. Rates of anaerobic microbial metabolism in wetlands of divergent hydrology on a glacial landscape. Wetlands 28: 703-714.

Jin, L., Williams, E., Szramek, K., Walter, L.M. and Hamilton, S.K. 2008. Silicate and carbonate mineral weathering in soil profiles developed on Pleistocene glacial drift (Michigan, USA): Mass balances based on soil water geochemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72: 1027-1042.

Mulholland, P.J., A.M. Helton, G.C. Poole, R.O. Hall, Jr., S.K. Hamilton, B.J. Peterson, J.L. Tank, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, W.K. Dodds, S. Findlay, S.V. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Meyer, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, C. Arango, J.J. Beaulieu, M J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, L. Johnson, B.R. Niederlehner, J.M. O’Brien, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, D.J. Sobota, and S.M. Thomas. 2008. Stream denitrification across biomes and effects of anthropogenic nitrate loading. Nature 452: 202-205.

Beaulieu, J.J., C.P. Arango, S.K. Hamilton, and J.L. Tank.  2008. The production and emission of nitrous oxide from headwater streams in the midwestern United States.  Global Change Biology 14: 878–894.

Jin, L., S.K. Hamilton, and L.M. Walter. 2008. Mineral weathering rates in glacial drift soils (SW Michigan, USA): New constraints from seasonal sampling of waters and gases at soil monoliths. Chemical Geology 249: 129-154.

Hamilton, S.K. In press. Flood plains. Entry 52 for the Rivers and Streams volume of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.  Elsevier.

Hamilton, S.K. In press. Floodplain wetlands of large river systems. Entry 65 for the Wetlands volume of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters.  Elsevier.

Jin, L., L.M. Walter, and S.K. Hamilton In press. Mineral weathering rates in glacial drift soils (SW Michigan, USA):  New constraints from seasonal sampling of waters and gases at soil monoliths. Chemical Geology.

Knoll,  L.B., O. Sarnelle, S.K. Hamilton, C.E.H. Scheele, A.E. Wilson, J.B. Rose, and M.R. Morgan. 2008 . Invasive zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) increase cyanobacterial toxin concentrations in low-nutrient lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 448-455.

Swinton, S.M., F. Lupi, G.P. Robertson and S.K. Hamilton. 2007. Ecosystem services and agriculture: Cultivating agricultural ecosystems for diverse benefits.  Ecological Economics 64: 245-252.

Hamilton, S.K., A.L. Kurzman, C. Arango, L. Jin, and G.P. Robertson.  2007. Evidence for carbon sequestration by agricultural liming. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB2021, doi:10.1029/2006GB002738.

Hamilton, S.K. and N.E. Ostrom. 2007. Measurement of the stable isotope ratio of dissolved N2 in 15N tracer experiments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 5:233-240.

Burgin, A.J. and S.K. Hamilton. 2007. Have we overemphasized the role of denitrification in aquatic ecosystems?  A review of nitrate removal pathways. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 89-96.

Thieme, M., B. Lehner, S.K. Hamilton, J. Kellndorfer, J.-C. Riveros, and R. Abell. 2007. Freshwater conservation planning in data-poor areas: An example from a remote Amazonian basin (Madre de Dios River, Peru and Bolivia). Biological Conservation 135: 500-517.

Reid, N.J. and S.K. Hamilton. 2007. Controls on algal abundance in a eutrophic river with varying degrees of impoundment (Kalamazoo River, Michigan, USA). Lake and Reservoir Management 23: 219-230.

Whitmire, S. L., and S. K. Hamilton. 2005. Rapid removal of nitrate and sulfate by freshwater wetland sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality 34: 2062-2071.

Bunn, S. E., M. C. Thoms, S. K. Hamilton, and S. J. Capon. 2005. Flow variability in dryland rivers: Boom, bust and the bits in between. River Research and Applications 22: 1-8.

Hamilton, S. K., and P. Gehrke. 2005. Australia's tropical river systems: Current scientific understanding and critical knowledge gaps for sustainable management. Marine and Freshwater Research 56: 243-252.

Hamilton, S.K., S.E. Bunn, M. Thoms, and J.C. Marshall. 2005. Persistence of aquatic refugia between flow pulses in a dryland river system (Cooper Creek, Australia). Limnology and Oceanography 50: 743-754.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and S.E. Bunn. 2005. Separation of algae from detritus for stable isotope or ecological stoichiometry studies using density fractionation in colloidal silica. Limnology and Oceanography Methods 3: 149-157.

Sarnelle, O., A.E. Wilson, S.K. Hamilton, L.B. Knoll, and D.F. Raikow. 2005. Complex interactions between the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, and the harmful phytoplankter, Microcystis aeruginosa.  Limnology and Oceanography 50: 896-904.

Hamilton, S.K., J.L. Tank, D.F. Raikow, E. Siler, N.J. Dorn, and N. Leonard. 2004. The role of instream vs. allochthonous N in stream food webs: Modeling the results of a nitrogen isotope addition experiment. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 23: 429-448.

Dodds, W.K, E. Martí, J.L. Tank, J. Pontius, S.K. Hamilton, N.B. Grimm, W.B. Bowden, W.H. McDowell, B.J. Peterson, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and S. Gregory. 2004. Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling in streams. Oecologia 140: 458-467.

Raikow, D.F., O. Sarnelle, A.E. Wilson, and S.K. Hamilton. 2004. Dominance of the noxious cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa in low-nutrient lakes is associated with exotic zebra mussels. Limnology and Oceanography 49: 482-487. (PDF)

Mulholland, P.J., H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, S.A. Thomas, L.N. Cooper, S.K. Hamilton, and B.J. Peterson. 2004. Stream denitrification and total nitrate uptake rates measured using a field ¹⁵N tracer addition approach.  Limnology and Oceanography 49: 809-820.

Melack, J.M.,  L.L. Hess, M. Gastil, B.R. Forsberg,  S.K. Hamilton, I. B.T. Lima, and E.M.L.M. Novo. 2004. Regionalization of methane emissions in the Amazon Basin with microwave remote sensing. Global Change Biology 10: 530-544.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and J.M. Melack. 2004. Seasonal inundation patterns in two large savanna floodplains of South America: the Llanos de Moxos (Bolivia) and the Llanos del Orinoco (Venezuela and Colombia). Hydrological Processes 18: 2103-2116.

Webster, J. R., P. J. Mulholland, J. L. Tank, H. M. Valett, W. K. Dodds, B. J. Peterson, W. B. Bowden, C. N. Dahm, S. Findlay, S. V. Gregory, N. B. Grimm, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, E. Martí, W. H. McDowell, J. L. Meyer, D. D. Morrall, S. A. Thomas and W. M. Wollheim. 2003. Factors affecting nitrogen retention in streams – an inter-biome perspective. Freshwater Biology 48: 1329-1352.

Mulholland, P.J., J.L. Tank,  J.R. Webster, W.K. Dodds, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, E. Martí, W.H. McDowell, J. Merriam, J.L. Meyer, B.J. Peterson, H.M. Valett, and W.M. Wollheim.2002. Can uptake lengths in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an inter-biome comparison study. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21: 544-560. 

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and J.M. Melack. 2002. Comparison of inundation patterns in South American floodplains. Journal of Geophysical Research D20. Available in electronic form; doi 10.1029/2000JD000306.

Mulholland, P.J., C.S. Fellows, J.L. Tank, N.B. Grimm, J.R. Webster, S.K. Hamilton, E. Marti, L. Ashkenas, W.B. Bowden, W.K. Dodds, W.H. McDowell, M.J. Paul, and B.J. Peterson. 2001. Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology 46: 1503-1517.

Dodds, W.K., A.J. López, W.B. Bowden, S. Gregory, N.B. Grimm, S.K. Hamilton, A.E. Hershey, E. Martí, W.H. McDowell, J.L. Meyer, D. Morrrall, P.J. Mulholland, B.J. Peterson, J.T. Tank, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and W. Wollheim.  2002.  N uptake as a function of concentration in streams.  Journal of the North American Benthological Society 21:206-220.

Hamilton, S.K. 2002. Human impacts on hydrology in the Pantanal wetland of South America. Water Science & Technology 45: 35-44.

Hamilton, S.K. 2002. Hydrological controls of ecological structure and function in the Pantanal wetland (Brazil). Pp. 133-158 in: M. McClain [ed.], The Ecohydrology of South American Rivers and Wetlands. International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Special Publication 6.

Findlay, S., J.L. Tank, S. Dye, H.M. Valett, P. Mulholland, W.H. McDowell, S. Johnson, S.K. Hamilton, J. Edmonds, W.K. Dodds, and W.B. Bowden. 2002. Bacterial and fungal biomass in detritus-based microhabitats of headwater streams. Microbial Ecology 43: 55-66.

Peterson, B.J., W.M. Wollheim, P.J. Mulholland, J. R. Webster, J.L. Meyer, J.L. Tank, E. Marti, W.B. Bowden, H.M. Valett, A.E. Hershey, W.B. McDowell, W.K. Dodds, S.K. Hamilton, S. Gregory, and D.D. Morrall. 2001. Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams. Science 292(5514): 86-90.

Raikow, D.F. and S.K. Hamilton. 2001. Bivalve diets in a midwestern U.S. stream: A stable isotope enrichment study. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 514-522.

Hamilton, S.K., J.L. Tank, D.F. Raikow, W.M. Wollheim, B.J. Peterson, and J.R. Webster. 2001.  Nitrogen uptake and transformation in a midwestern US stream: A stable isotope enrichment study.  Biogeochemistry 54: 297-340.

Lewis, W.M., Jr., S.K. Hamilton, M. Rodríguez, J.F. Saunders, III, and M.A. Lasi. 2001. Foodweb analysis of the Orinoco floodplain based on production estimates and stable isotope data. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 20: 241-254.

Smith, L.K., W.M. Lewis, Jr., J.P. Chanton, G. Cronin, and S.K. Hamilton. 2000. Methane emissions from the Orinoco River floodplain, Venezuela. Biogeochemistry 51: 113-140.

Lewis, W.M., Jr., S.K. Hamilton, M.A. Lasi, M. Rodríguez, and J.F. Saunders, III. 2000. Ecological determinism on the Orinoco floodplain.  BioScience 50: 681-692.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, D.F. Calheiros, and J.M. Melack. 1999. Chemical characteristics of Pantanal waters.  Pp. 89-100 in: Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Natural and Socioeconomic Resources of the Pantanal: Management and Conservation,18-22 November 1996, Corumbá, Brazil. Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research, Brasília.

Hamilton, S.K. 1999. Potential effects of a major navigation project (the Paraguay-Paraná Hidrovía) on inundation in the Pantanal floodplains. Regulated Rivers: Research and Management 15(4): 289-299.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and J.M. Melack. 1999. Determination of inundation patterns in the major floodplains of South America from passive microwave remote sensing. Extended abstract published in the proceedings of the “International Symposium on Hydrological and Geochemical Processes in Large-Scale River Basins”, Manaus, Brazil, November 1999.

Sippel, S.J. and S.K. Hamilton. 1998. Four-township water atlas: A guide to the water resources in the townships of Barry and Prairieville (Barry County) and Richland and Ross (Kalamazoo County). Four-Township Water Resources Council, Inc. 58 pp.

Hamilton, S.K.  1998.  Book Review of Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, by William H. Schlesinger (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1997).  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Sippel, S.J., S.K. Hamilton, J.M. Melack, and E.M.M. Novo. 1998. Passive microwave observations of inundation area and the area/stage relation in the Amazon River floodplain. International Journal of Remote Sensing 19: 3055-3074.

Hamilton, S.K., Corrêa de Souza, O., and Coutinho, M.E.  1998.  Dynamics of floodplain inundation in the alluvial fan of the Taquari River (Pantanal, Brazil). Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 26: 916-922.

Calheiros, D.F. and Hamilton, S.K.  1998.  Limnological conditions associated with natural fish kills in the Pantanal wetland (Baía do Castelo, Paraguay River, Brazil). Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 26: 2189-2193.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, D.F. Calheiros, and J.M. Melack. 1997. An anoxic event and other biogeochemical effects of the Pantanal wetland on the Paraguay River. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 257-272.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and J.M. Melack. 1996.  Inundation patterns in the Pantanal wetland of South America determined from passive microwave remote sensing. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 137(1): 1-23.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, and J.M. Melack. 1995. Oxygen depletion and carbon dioxide and methane production in waters of the Pantanal wetland of Brazil. Biogeochemistry 30(2): 115-141.

Lewis, W.M. Jr., S.K. Hamilton, and J.F. Saunders III. 1995. Rivers of northern South America.  P. 219-256 in: C.E. Cushing, K.W. Cummins, and G.W. Minshall [eds.], River and stream ecosystems. Ecosystems of the World Vol. 22. Elsevier.

Ferreira, C.J.A., B.M.A. Soriano, S. Galdino, and S.K. Hamilton. 1994. Anthropogenic factors affecting waters of the Pantanal wetland and associated rivers in the upper Paraguay River basin of Brazil.  Acta Limnologica Brasiliensia 5: 135-148.

Sippel, S.J., S.K. Hamilton, J.M. Melack, and B.J. Choudhury. 1994. Determination of inundation area in the Amazon River floodplain using the SMMR 37 GHz polarization difference. Remote Sensing of Environment 48: 70-76. 

Hamilton, S.K., W.M. Lewis, Jr., and S.J. Sippel. 1992. Energy sources for aquatic animals on the Orinoco River floodplain: Evidence from stable isotopes.  Oecologia 89: 324-330.

Hamilton, S.K. and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 1992. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes in algae and detritus from the Orinoco River floodplain, Venezuela.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 56: 4237-4246.

Sippel, S.J., S.K. Hamilton, and J.M. Melack. 1992.  Inundation area and morphometry of lakes on the Amazon River floodplain, Brazil.  Archiv für Hydrobiologie 123: 385-400.

Hamilton, S.K., J.M. Melack, M.F. Goodchild, and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 1992. Estimation of the fractal dimension of terrain from lake size distributions, p. 145-164.  In G.E. Petts and P.A. Carling [eds.], Lowland Floodplain Rivers: A Geomorphological Perspective.  John Wiley and Sons, Sussex.

Melack, J.M., S.K. Hamilton, and J.O. Sickman. 1992. Interannual solute variations in a high elevation lake of the Sierra Nevada, California. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol.  25: 374-377.

Melack, J.M., S.K. Hamilton, K.W. Kratz, and M.W. Williams. 1991. Ecological consequences of acidic deposition in the Sierra Nevada, p. 47-53.  In J.J. DeVries and S.G. Conrad [eds.], California Watersheds at the Urban Interface. Proceedings of the Third Biennial Watershed Conference. California Water Resources Center, University of California.

Barmuta, L.A., S.D. Cooper, S.K. Hamilton, K.W. Kratz, and J.M. Melack.  1990.  Responses of zooplankton and zoobenthos to experimental acidification in a high-elevation lake (Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A.).  Freshwater Biology 23: 571-586.

Hamilton, S.K. and W.M. Lewis, Jr.  1990.  Basin morphology in relation to chemical and ecological characteristics of lakes on the Orinoco River floodplain, Venezuela.  Archiv für Hydrobiologie 119: 393-425.

Lewis, W.M., Jr., J.F. Saunders, S.K. Hamilton, and F. Weibezahn. 1990. The Orinoco River as an ecosystem. Interciencia 15: 346-357.

Hamilton, S.K. and W.M. Lewis, Jr. 1990. Physical characteristics of the fringing floodplain of the Orinoco River, Venezuela. Interciencia 15: 491-500.

Hamilton, S.K., S.J. Sippel, W.M. Lewis, Jr., and J.F. Saunders, III.  1990.  Zooplankton abundance and evidence for its reduction by macrophyte mats in two Orinoco floodplain lakes.  Journal of Plankton Research 12: 345-363.

Lewis, W.M., Jr., S.K. Hamilton, S. Jones, and D. Runnells.  1987.  Major element chemistry, weathering, and element yields for the Caura River drainage, Venezuela.  Biogeochemistry 4: 159-181.

Hamilton, S.K. and W.M. Lewis, Jr.  1987.  Causes of seasonality in the chemistry of a lake on the Orinoco River floodplain, Venezuela.  Limnology and Oceanography 32: 1277-1290.

Lewis, W.M., Jr., M.C. Grant, and S.K. Hamilton.  1985.  Evidence that filtrable phosphorus is a significant atmospheric link in the phosphorus cycle.  Oikos 45: 428-432.