Publications
Marzolf, N.*, M. Ardón. 2021. Whole stream metabolism in tropical streams and rivers: a review and synthesis. Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11707
Ardón M., L.H. Zeglin, R.M. Utz, S.D. Cooper, W.K. Dodds, R. J. Bixby, A.S. Burdett, J. Follstad-Shah, N.A. Griffiths, T.K. Harms, S.L Johnson, J.B Jones, J.S. Kominoski, W.H. McDowell, A. D. Rosemond, M.T. Trentman, D. Van Horn, A. Ward. 2020. Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital-based food webs: A global meta-analyses from streams and rivers. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/brv.12673
LeRoy C.J., A.L. Hipp, K. Lueders, J. Follstad-Shah, J. S. Kominoski, M. Ardón, W.K. Dodds, M.O. Gessner, N.A. Griffiths, A. Lecerf, D.W.P. Manning, R.L. Sinsabaugh, J.R. Webster. 2020. Plant phylogenetic history explains in-stream decomposition at a global scale. Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13262.
Christian RR, L.K. Bloom, M. Ardón, and E. Leorri. 2019. Sea-level change and its potential effects on coastal blue carbon. A Blue Carbon Primer. Editors: L. Windham-Myers, S. Crooks, and T. Troxler. CRC Press.
Helton A.M., M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2019. Hydrologic context alters magnitude and direction of greenhouse gas feedbacks to coastal wetland salinization. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0325-2
Bhattachan A., R. Emanuel, M. Ardón, E. Bernhardt, S. Anderson*, M. G. Stillwagon*, E. A. Ury, T.K. BenDor, , J.P. Wright. 2018. Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion. Elementa. 6(1): 62. Access here
Ardón M, Helton A.M. and E.S. Bernhardt. 2018. Salinity effects on greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils are contingent upon hydrologic setting: a microcosm experiment. Biogeochemistry DOI:10.1007/s10533-018-0486-2
Ardón M., A. Helton, M.D. Scheuerell, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2017. Fertilizer legacies meet saltwater incursion: challenges and constraints for coastal plain wetland restoration. Elementa, 5: 41. PDF here
Follstad Shah JJ, J.S. Kominoski, M. Ardón, W.K. Dodds, M. O. Gessner, N.A. Griffiths, S.L. Johnson, A. Lecerf, C.J. LeRoy, D.W.P. Manning, A.D. Rosemond, R.L. Sinsabaugh, C.M. Swan, J.R. Webster, L.H. Zeglin. 2017. Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. Global Change Biology. 23: 3064-3075.
Powell, A.M.*, L. Jackson**, and M. Ardón. 2016. Disentangling the effects of drought and salinity on growth of bald cypress trees at different life stages. Restoration Ecology 24:548-557.
Ardón M., A. Helton, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2016. Drought and saltwater incursion synergistically reduce dissolved organic carbon export from coastal freshwater wetlands. Biogeochemistry 127: 411-426.
Small, GS, M. Ardón, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, A. Ramirez, and C.M. Pringle. 2016. Phosphorus retention in a lowland Neotropical stream following an eight-year enrichment experiment. Freshwater Science 35: 1-11.
Pringle C.M., E.P. Anderson, M. Ardón, R.J. Bixby, S. Connelly, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, P. Paaby, A. Ramírez, G.E. Small, M.N. Snyder, and F.J. Triska. 2016. Rivers of Costa Rica. In: Costa Rican Ecosystems. Ed: M. Kappelle. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
Herbert, E.R., P. Boon, A.J. Burgin, S.C. Neubauer, R. B. Franklyn, M. Ardón, K. N. Hopfensperger, L.P.M. Lamers, P.Gell. 2015. A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands. Ecosphere 6:206 doi.10.1890/ES14-00534.1. PDF
Helton A.M.,M. Ardón, E.S. Bernhardt. 2015. Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns. Ecology Letters 18: 1049-1056. Recommended by Faculty of 1000.
Ramírez, A., M. Ardón, M. Douglas, M. Graça. 2015. Tropical freshwater science: an overview of ongoing tropical research. Freshwater Science 34: 606-608.
Ganong, C.N., G.E. Small, M. Ardón, W. H. McDowell, D. Genereux, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2015. Interbasin flows of geothermally-modified groundwater stabilize stream fluxes of biologicall important solutes against variation in local precipitation: an example from Costa Rica. Freshwater Science 34:276-286
Ardón M., J.L. Morse, B.P. Colman, E.S. Bernhardt. 2013. Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. Global Change Biology 19:2976-2985 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12287. PDF
See 2015 Mercer award from ESA here
See highlight in Nature here
Ardón M., J.H. Duff, A. Ramírez, G.E. Small, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Experimental acidification of two biogeochemically-distinct neotropical streams: Buffering response and macroinvertebrate drift. Science of the Total Environment 443: 267-277. PDF
Morse, J.L. M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2012.Using environmental variables and soil processes to forecast denitrification potential and nitrous oxide fluxes in coastal plain wetlands across different land-uses. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences doi:10.1029/2011JG001923
Small G.E., M. Ardón, A.P. Jackman, J.H. Duff, F.J. Triska, A. Ramírez, M. Snyder, and C.M. Pringle. 2012. Rainfall-driven amplification of seasonal acidification in poorly-buffered neotropical streams. Ecosystems 15: 974-988.
Ulloa E., C.B. Anderson, M. Ardón, S. Murcia, A.E.J. Valenzuela. 2012. Organic matter characterization and decomposition dynamics in sub-Antartic streams impacted by invasive beavers. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 40: 881-892.
Morse, J.L., M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2012. Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. Ecological Applications 22: 264-280. PDF
Ardón M., S. Montanari*, J.L. Morse, M.W. Doyle, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2010. Phosphorus export from a restored wetland ecosystem in response to natural and experimental hydrologic fluctuations. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences 15, G04031 PDF
Ardón M., J.L. Morse, M.W. Doyle, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2010.The water quality consequences of restoring wetland hydrology to a large agricultural watershed in the southeastern coastal plain. Ecosystems 13: 1060-1078. PDF
Ardón M., C.M. Pringle and S.L. Eggert. 2009. Does leaf chemistry differentially affect breakdown in tropical vs temperate streams? Importance of using standardized analytical techniques to measure leaf chemistry.Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 440-453 PDF
Ardón M. and E.S Bernhardt. 2009. Restoration of rivers and streams. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0020148 PDF
Ardón M.and C.M. Pringle. 2008. Do secondary compounds inhibit microbial- and insect-mediated leaf breakdown in a tropical rainforest stream, Costa Rica? Oecologia155: 311-323 PDF
Small, G.E., C.M. Pringle, F.J. Triska, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, M. Hidalgo, A. Ramírez and M. Ardón. 2008. Phosphorus uptake dynamics during an eight-year phosphorus addition in a neotropical headwater stream.VerhandlungenInternationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 30: 551-554 PDF
Ardón M. and C.M. Pringle. 2007. The quality of organic matter mediates the response of heterotrophic biofilms to phosphorus enrichment of the water column and substratum. Freshwater Biology 52: 1762-1772 PDF
Ardón M.,L.A. Stallcup and C.M. Pringle. 2006. Does leaf quality mediate the stimulation of leaf breakdown by phosphorus in Neotropical streams?Freshwater Biology 51: 618-633. 51: 983. PDF
Stallcup L.A., M. Ardón and C.M. Pringle. 2006. Effects of P- and N- enrichment on leaf breakdown in detritus-based tropical streams. Freshwater Biology 51: 1515-1526. PDF
Triska F.J., C.M. Pringle, J.H. Duff, R.J. Avanzino, A. Ramírez, M. Ardón and A.P. Jackman. 2006. Soluble Reactive Phosphorus (SRP) transport and retention in tropical, rain forest streams draining a volcanic landscape in Costa Rica. 1: Long-term concentration and pore water environment. Biogeochemistry81: 131-143.
Orians C., M. Ardón and Mohammad B.A. 2002.Vascular architecture and patchy nutrient availability generate within-plant heterogeneity in plant traits important to herbivores. American Journal of Botany 89 (2): 270-278.
Ardón M., L.H. Zeglin, R.M. Utz, S.D. Cooper, W.K. Dodds, R. J. Bixby, A.S. Burdett, J. Follstad-Shah, N.A. Griffiths, T.K. Harms, S.L Johnson, J.B Jones, J.S. Kominoski, W.H. McDowell, A. D. Rosemond, M.T. Trentman, D. Van Horn, A. Ward. 2020. Experimental nitrogen and phosphorus enrichment stimulates multiple trophic levels of algal and detrital-based food webs: A global meta-analyses from streams and rivers. Biological Reviews doi: 10.1111/brv.12673
LeRoy C.J., A.L. Hipp, K. Lueders, J. Follstad-Shah, J. S. Kominoski, M. Ardón, W.K. Dodds, M.O. Gessner, N.A. Griffiths, A. Lecerf, D.W.P. Manning, R.L. Sinsabaugh, J.R. Webster. 2020. Plant phylogenetic history explains in-stream decomposition at a global scale. Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13262.
Christian RR, L.K. Bloom, M. Ardón, and E. Leorri. 2019. Sea-level change and its potential effects on coastal blue carbon. A Blue Carbon Primer. Editors: L. Windham-Myers, S. Crooks, and T. Troxler. CRC Press.
Helton A.M., M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2019. Hydrologic context alters magnitude and direction of greenhouse gas feedbacks to coastal wetland salinization. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0325-2
Bhattachan A., R. Emanuel, M. Ardón, E. Bernhardt, S. Anderson*, M. G. Stillwagon*, E. A. Ury, T.K. BenDor, , J.P. Wright. 2018. Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion. Elementa. 6(1): 62. Access here
Ardón M, Helton A.M. and E.S. Bernhardt. 2018. Salinity effects on greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils are contingent upon hydrologic setting: a microcosm experiment. Biogeochemistry DOI:10.1007/s10533-018-0486-2
Ardón M., A. Helton, M.D. Scheuerell, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2017. Fertilizer legacies meet saltwater incursion: challenges and constraints for coastal plain wetland restoration. Elementa, 5: 41. PDF here
Follstad Shah JJ, J.S. Kominoski, M. Ardón, W.K. Dodds, M. O. Gessner, N.A. Griffiths, S.L. Johnson, A. Lecerf, C.J. LeRoy, D.W.P. Manning, A.D. Rosemond, R.L. Sinsabaugh, C.M. Swan, J.R. Webster, L.H. Zeglin. 2017. Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. Global Change Biology. 23: 3064-3075.
Powell, A.M.*, L. Jackson**, and M. Ardón. 2016. Disentangling the effects of drought and salinity on growth of bald cypress trees at different life stages. Restoration Ecology 24:548-557.
Ardón M., A. Helton, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2016. Drought and saltwater incursion synergistically reduce dissolved organic carbon export from coastal freshwater wetlands. Biogeochemistry 127: 411-426.
Small, GS, M. Ardón, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, A. Ramirez, and C.M. Pringle. 2016. Phosphorus retention in a lowland Neotropical stream following an eight-year enrichment experiment. Freshwater Science 35: 1-11.
Pringle C.M., E.P. Anderson, M. Ardón, R.J. Bixby, S. Connelly, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, P. Paaby, A. Ramírez, G.E. Small, M.N. Snyder, and F.J. Triska. 2016. Rivers of Costa Rica. In: Costa Rican Ecosystems. Ed: M. Kappelle. University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL.
Herbert, E.R., P. Boon, A.J. Burgin, S.C. Neubauer, R. B. Franklyn, M. Ardón, K. N. Hopfensperger, L.P.M. Lamers, P.Gell. 2015. A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands. Ecosphere 6:206 doi.10.1890/ES14-00534.1. PDF
Helton A.M.,M. Ardón, E.S. Bernhardt. 2015. Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns. Ecology Letters 18: 1049-1056. Recommended by Faculty of 1000.
Ramírez, A., M. Ardón, M. Douglas, M. Graça. 2015. Tropical freshwater science: an overview of ongoing tropical research. Freshwater Science 34: 606-608.
Ganong, C.N., G.E. Small, M. Ardón, W. H. McDowell, D. Genereux, J.H. Duff, and C.M. Pringle. 2015. Interbasin flows of geothermally-modified groundwater stabilize stream fluxes of biologicall important solutes against variation in local precipitation: an example from Costa Rica. Freshwater Science 34:276-286
Ardón M., J.L. Morse, B.P. Colman, E.S. Bernhardt. 2013. Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. Global Change Biology 19:2976-2985 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12287. PDF
See 2015 Mercer award from ESA here
See highlight in Nature here
Ardón M., J.H. Duff, A. Ramírez, G.E. Small, A.P. Jackman, F.J. Triska, and C.M. Pringle. 2013. Experimental acidification of two biogeochemically-distinct neotropical streams: Buffering response and macroinvertebrate drift. Science of the Total Environment 443: 267-277. PDF
Morse, J.L. M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2012.Using environmental variables and soil processes to forecast denitrification potential and nitrous oxide fluxes in coastal plain wetlands across different land-uses. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences doi:10.1029/2011JG001923
Small G.E., M. Ardón, A.P. Jackman, J.H. Duff, F.J. Triska, A. Ramírez, M. Snyder, and C.M. Pringle. 2012. Rainfall-driven amplification of seasonal acidification in poorly-buffered neotropical streams. Ecosystems 15: 974-988.
Ulloa E., C.B. Anderson, M. Ardón, S. Murcia, A.E.J. Valenzuela. 2012. Organic matter characterization and decomposition dynamics in sub-Antartic streams impacted by invasive beavers. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 40: 881-892.
Morse, J.L., M. Ardón, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2012. Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. Ecological Applications 22: 264-280. PDF
Ardón M., S. Montanari*, J.L. Morse, M.W. Doyle, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2010. Phosphorus export from a restored wetland ecosystem in response to natural and experimental hydrologic fluctuations. Journal of Geophysical Research- Biogeosciences 15, G04031 PDF
Ardón M., J.L. Morse, M.W. Doyle, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2010.The water quality consequences of restoring wetland hydrology to a large agricultural watershed in the southeastern coastal plain. Ecosystems 13: 1060-1078. PDF
Ardón M., C.M. Pringle and S.L. Eggert. 2009. Does leaf chemistry differentially affect breakdown in tropical vs temperate streams? Importance of using standardized analytical techniques to measure leaf chemistry.Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28: 440-453 PDF
Ardón M. and E.S Bernhardt. 2009. Restoration of rivers and streams. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0020148 PDF
Ardón M.and C.M. Pringle. 2008. Do secondary compounds inhibit microbial- and insect-mediated leaf breakdown in a tropical rainforest stream, Costa Rica? Oecologia155: 311-323 PDF
Small, G.E., C.M. Pringle, F.J. Triska, J.H. Duff, A.P. Jackman, M. Hidalgo, A. Ramírez and M. Ardón. 2008. Phosphorus uptake dynamics during an eight-year phosphorus addition in a neotropical headwater stream.VerhandlungenInternationale Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 30: 551-554 PDF
Ardón M. and C.M. Pringle. 2007. The quality of organic matter mediates the response of heterotrophic biofilms to phosphorus enrichment of the water column and substratum. Freshwater Biology 52: 1762-1772 PDF
Ardón M.,L.A. Stallcup and C.M. Pringle. 2006. Does leaf quality mediate the stimulation of leaf breakdown by phosphorus in Neotropical streams?Freshwater Biology 51: 618-633. 51: 983. PDF
Stallcup L.A., M. Ardón and C.M. Pringle. 2006. Effects of P- and N- enrichment on leaf breakdown in detritus-based tropical streams. Freshwater Biology 51: 1515-1526. PDF
Triska F.J., C.M. Pringle, J.H. Duff, R.J. Avanzino, A. Ramírez, M. Ardón and A.P. Jackman. 2006. Soluble Reactive Phosphorus (SRP) transport and retention in tropical, rain forest streams draining a volcanic landscape in Costa Rica. 1: Long-term concentration and pore water environment. Biogeochemistry81: 131-143.
Orians C., M. Ardón and Mohammad B.A. 2002.Vascular architecture and patchy nutrient availability generate within-plant heterogeneity in plant traits important to herbivores. American Journal of Botany 89 (2): 270-278.