About the Authors

Brandye T. Freeland-Riggert

Brandye.Freeland-Riggert@dnr.mo.gov

Current address: Missouri Department of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology and Agriculture, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, United States of America

Stefan H. Cairns

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan H. Cairns, Barry C. Poulton, Christopher M. Riggert

Affiliation Department of Biology and Agriculture, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, United States of America

Barry C. Poulton

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan H. Cairns, Barry C. Poulton, Christopher M. Riggert

Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

Christopher M. Riggert

Contributed equally to this work with: Stefan H. Cairns, Barry C. Poulton, Christopher M. Riggert

Affiliation Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BFR SHC BCP. Performed the experiments: BFR CMR. Analyzed the data: BFR BCP SHC CMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BFR SHC CMR BCP. Wrote the paper: BFR BCP CMR SHC. Helping with entering all the taxa/metrics into Access: CMR. Assisting with sampling/processing of all samples: CMR. Assisting with crayfish identification: CMR. Assisting with other macroinvertebrate identification: BCP. Assisting with analysis (many times): BCP SHC.