Arctic Rivers
Peterson, B. J., J. E. Hobbie, A. Hershey, M. Lock, T. Ford, R. Vestal, M. Hullar, R. Ventullo and G. Volk. 1985. Transformation of a tundra river from heterotrophy to autotrophy by addition of phosphorus. Science 229:1383-1386.
Slavik, K., B. J. Peterson, L.A. Deegan, W. B. Bowden, A. E. Hershey, and J. E. Hobbie. 2004. Long-term responses of the Kuparuk River ecosystem to phosphorus fertilization. Ecology 85: 939-954.
Salt Marsh Estuaries
Holmes, R. M., B. J. Peterson, L. A. Deegan, J. E. Hughes, and B. Fry. 2000. Nitrogen biogeochemistry in the oligohaline zone of a New England estuary. Ecology 81:416:432
Deegan, L. A., D. S. Johnson, R. S. Warren, B. J. Peterson, S. Fagherazzi, and J. Fleeger. 2012. Trouble on the edge: Coastal eutrophication as a driver of salt marsh loss. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature11533.
Stream Tracer Studies
Peterson, B. J., W. Wollheim, P. J. Mulholland, J. R. Webster, J. L. Meyer, J. L. Tank, N. B. Grimm, W. B. Bowden, H. M. Valett, A. E. Hershey, W. B. McDowell, W. K. Dodds, S. K. Hamilton, S. Gregory and D. J. D’Angelo. 2001. Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams. Science 292:86-90.
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, J. Merriam, 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 its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading. Nature 452:202-205.
Panarctic Freshwater Cycle
Peterson, B. J., R. M. Holmes, J. W. McClelland, C. J. Vörösmarty, R. B. Lammers, A. I. Shiklomanov, I. A. Shiklomanov, S. Rahmstorf. 2002. Increasing river discharge to the Arctic Ocean. Science 298: 2171-2173.
Peterson, B. J., J. McClelland, M. Holmes, R. Curry, J. Walsh and K. Aagaard. 2006. Trajectory shifts in the Arctic and Subarctic freshwater cycle. Science 313: 1061-1066.