Publications

This list is updated occasionally, however, it may be missing the most hot-off-the-press items. I also maintain scholar and OrcID pages, check these for the most updated list.

preprints

Gjoni, V., J. P. F. Pomeranz, J. R. Junker, and J. S. Wesner. (2024). Size spectra in freshwater streams are consistent across temperature and resource supply. bioRxiv. LINK.

Gjoni, V., D. S. Glazier, J. Pomeranz, J. R. Junker, A. Smith, J. Woelber, S. Reynolds, T. Welch, and J. S. Wesner. 2025. Temperature and predation alter metabolic scaling without changing size-based community structure in freshwater macroinvertebrates. bioRxiv.LINK

Mello, J. L. da S., L. J. Venuso, J. M. Braga, P. B. Guerra, E. M. Shimabukuro, T. Siqueira, J. R. Junker, and V. S. Saito. Ontogenetic Carnivory Drives Secondary Production Across a Productivity Gradient. ecoevoRxivLINK

accepted/in press

2025

Stutter, M., L. Jackson-Blake, M. McGovern, J. D’Andrilli, J. R. Junker, P. Dörsch, H. Watson, S. R. Karlsen, and B. O. L. Demars. 2025. Riparian Soils Inform Dissolved Organic Matter Delivery in a Norwegian Subarctic River. European Journal of Soil Science 76:e70185. DOI:10.1111/ejss.70185. PDF. LINK.

Landreth, J. H., B. A. Murry, K. A. Adase, C. C. Arantes, D. M. Smith, D. I. Wellman, J. R. Junker, J. P. F. Pomeranz, and J. S. Wesner. 2025. Ecosystem Size and Functional Group Relative Abundance Drive Stream Community Body Size Structure. Fishes 10:419. DOI:10.3390/fishes10080419. PDF. LINK.

Ersoy, Z., C. Evangelista, A. Larrañaga, D. M. Perkins, J. Sánchez-Hernández, T. Chonova, D. Cunillera-Montcusí, C. García-Comas, J. García-Girón, I. de Guzman, J. Pomeranz, V. Saito, M. Arim, D. Baumgartner, G. Baumgartner, M. Berazategui, D. Boix, G. Collyer, J. Compte, A. M. Cunico, R. M. van Dorst, J. Harding, U. Gaedke, S. Gascón, É. A. Gubiani, D. Hernández, J. R. Junker, M. López-Vázquez, A. L. Maciel, T. Mehner, R. P. Mormul, R. Pereira-Garbero, D. Petsch, P. A. Piana, X. D. Quintana, J. Reiss, L. Rodríguez-Tricot, J. Sala, W. S. Serra, T. Siqueira, H. J. Warburton, M. Zarucki, and I. Arranz. 2025. GLOSSAQUA: A global dataset of size spectra across aquatic ecosystems. Ecology 106:e70050. DOI:10.1002/ecy.70050. PDF. LINK.

Bradley, L. M., E. S. Duvall, O. J. Akinnifesi, T. Novotná Jaroměřská, J. R. Junker, and E. Wong. 2025. Exploring the multi-scale ecological consequences of stoichiometric imbalance using an agent-based modeling approach. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13 1505145. DOI:10.3389/fevo.2025.1505145. PDF. LINK.

2024

Junker, J. R., W. F. Cross, J. M. Hood, J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, D. Nelson, J. S. Ólafsson, and G. M. Gíslason. (2024). Environmental warming increases the importance of high-turnover energy channels in stream food webs. Ecology 105:e4314. DOI:10.1002/ecy.4314. PDF. LINK.

Pomeranz, J., J. R. Junker, V. Gjoni, and J. S. Wesner. (2024). Maximum likelihood outperforms binning methods for detecting differences in abundance size spectra across environmental gradients. Journal of Animal Ecology 93:267–280.DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.14044. PDF. LINK.

Wesner, J. S., J. P. F. Pomeranz, J. R. Junker, and V. Gjoni. (2024). Bayesian hierarchical modelling of size spectra. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15:856–867. DOI:10.1111/2041-210X.14312. PDF. LINK.

2023

Scholl, E. A., W. F. Cross, C. S. Guy, A. J. Dutton, and J. R. Junker. (2023). Landscape diversity promotes stable food-web architectures in large rivers. Ecology Letters 26:1740–1751. DOI:10.1111/ele.14289. PDF. LINK

Keppeler, F. W., J. R. Junker, M. J. Shaw, S. B. Alford, A. S. Engel, L. M. Hooper-Bùi, O. P. Jensen, K. Lamb, P. C. López-Duarte, C. W. Martin, A. M. McDonald, J. A. Olin, A. T. Paterson, M. J. Polito, N. N. Rabalais, B. J. Roberts, R. E. Rossi, and E. M. Swenson. (2023). Can biodiversity of preexisting and created salt marshes match across scales? An assessment from microbes to predators. Ecosphere 14:e4461. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.4461.PDF. Link

2022

Pomeranz, J. P. F., J. R. Junker, & J. S. Wesner. (2022). Individual size distributions across North America vary with local temperature. Global Change Biology 28(3): 848-858. DOI:10.1111/gcb.15862. PDF. Editor invited commentary LINK.

Reinert, J. H., J. R. Junker, & L. K. Albertson. (2022). Influence of biomimicry structures on ecosystem function in a Rocky Mountain incised stream. Ecosphere 13(1):e3897. DOI:10.1002/ecs2.3897. LINK

2021

Junker, J. R., W. F. Cross, J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, J. M. Hood, D. Nelson, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2021). Flow is more important that temperature in driving patterns of organic matter storage and stoichiometry in stream ecosystems. Ecosystems 24(6):1317-1331. DOI:10.1007/s10021-020-00585-6. PDF

Scholl, E. A., W. F. Cross, J. R. Junker, M. J. MacDonald, J. A. Sanchez-Ruiz, B. B. Tumolo, & M. R. Whiles. (2021). Are human remediation efforts responsible for increases in insect abundance?. PDF LINK. Technical comment on van Klink et al. in Science.

2020

Junker, J. R., W. F. Cross, J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, J. M. Hood, D. Nelson, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2020). Resource supply governs the apparent temperature dependence of animal production in stream ecosystems. Ecology Letters 23(12):1809-1819. DOI:10.1111/ele.13608. PDF

Nelson, D., J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, W. F. Cross, J. M. Hood, P. W. Johnson, J. R. Junker, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2020). Contrasting responses of black fly species (Diptera: Simuliidae) to experimental whole-stream warming. Freshwater Biology 65(10):1793-1805.DOI:10.1111/fwb.13583. PDF

Nelson, D., J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, W. F. Cross, J. M. Hood, P. W. Johnson, J. R. Junker, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2020). Thermal niche diversity and trophic redundancy drive neutral effects of warming on energy flux through a stream food web. Ecology 101(4):e02952.DOI:10.1002/ecy.2952. LINK

W. F. Cross, K. A. Henderson, J. R. Junker, & E. A. Scholl. (2020). Secondary Production. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. DOI:10.1093/obo/9780199830060-0231

2019

J. D’Andrilli, J. R. Junker, H. J. Smith, E. A. Scholl & C. M. Foreman. (2019). DOM composition alters ecosystem function during microbial processing of isolated sources. Biogeochemistry 142(2):281-298. DOI:10.1007/s10533-018-00534-5. LINK

2018

Hood, J. M., J. P. Benstead, W. F. Cross, A. D. Huryn, P. W. Johnson, G. M. Gíslason, J. R. Junker, D. Nelson, J. S. Ólafsson, & C. Tran. (2018). Increased resource use efficiency amplifies positive response of aquatic primary production to experimental warming. Global Change Biology 24(3):1069-1084. DOI:10.1111/gcb.13912. PDF

2017

Nelson, D., J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, W. F. Cross, J. M. Hood, P. W. Johnson, J. R. Junker, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2017). Experimental whole-stream warming alters community size structure. Global Change Biology 23(7):2618-2628. DOI:10.1111/gcb.13574. PDF

Nelson, D., J. P. Benstead, A. D. Huryn, W. F. Cross, J. M. Hood, P. W. Johnson, J. R. Junker, G. M. Gíslason, & J. S. Ólafsson. (2017). Shifts in community size structure drive temperature invariance of secondary production in a stream-warming experiment. Ecology 98(7):1797-1806. DOI:10.1002/ecy.1857. PDF

2014

Junker, J. R. & W. F. Cross. (2014). Seasonality in the trophic basis of a temperate stream invertebrate assemblage: Importance of temperature and food quality. Limnology and Oceanography 59(2):507-518. DOI:10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0507. PDF

2012

O’Gorman, E. J.,…,J. R. Junker,…, & G. Woodward (30 authors). (2012). Impacts of warming on the structure and functioning of aquatic communities: individual- to ecosystem-level responses. Advances in ecological research 47:81-176. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-398315-2.00002-8. LINK