Passy, S.I. 2008. Continental diatom biodiversity in stream benthos declines as more nutrients become limiting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), in press.
Passy, S. I. 2008. Species size and distribution jointly and differentially determine diatom densities in US streams. Ecology 89: 475-484.
Burns, D. A., Riva-Murray, K., Bode, R. W. & Passy, S. 2008. Biological and Chemical Responses to Reduced Levels of Acid Deposition in the Neversink River Basin, Catskill Mountains, New York, 1987-2003. Ecological Indicators 8: 191-203.
Passy, S. I. & Blanchet, F. G. 2007. Algal communities in human-impacted stream ecosystems suffer beta-diversity decline. Diversity and Distributions 13: 670-679.
Passy, S. I. 2007. Differential cell size optimization strategies produce distinct diatom richness–body size relationships in stream benthos and plankton. Journal of Ecology 95: 745-754.
Passy, S. I. 2007. Community analysis in stream biomonitoring: what we measure and what we don’t. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 127: 409-417.
Passy, S. I. 2007. Diatom ecological guilds display distinct and predictable behavior along nutrient and disturbance gradients in running waters. Aquatic Botany 86: 171-178.
Passy, S. I., Ciugulea, I. & Lawrence, G. B. 2006. Diatom diversity in chronically versus episodically acidified Adirondack streams. International Review of Hydrobiology 91: 594–608.
Passy, S. I. & Legendre, P. 2006. Are algal communities driven toward maximum biomass? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Ser. B 273: 2667–2674.
Passy, S. I. & Legendre, P. 2006. Power law relationships among hierarchical taxonomic categories in algae reveal a new paradox of the plankton. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 528-535.
Passy, S. I. 2006. Diatom community dynamics in streams of chronic and episodic acidification: the roles of environment and time. Journal of Phycology 42: 312-323.
Larson, C. & Passy, S. I. 2005. Spectral fingerprinting of algal communities: a novel approach to biofilm analysis and biomonitoring. Journal of Phycology 41: 439-446.
Passy, S. I. & Bode, R. W. 2004. Diatom Model Affinity (DMA), a new index for water quality assessment. Hydrobiologia 524: 241-251.
Passy, S. I., Bode, R. W., Carlson, D. M. & Novak, M. A. 2004. Comparative environmental assessment in the studies of benthic diatom, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities. International Review of Hydrobiology 89: 121-138.
Passy, S. I. 2002. Environmental randomness underlies morphological complexity of colonial diatoms. Functional Ecology 16: 690-695.
Passy, S. I. 2001. Spatial paradigms of lotic diatom distribution: a landscape ecology perspective. Journal of Phycology 37: 370-378.
Passy, S. I., Yu, X., Li, Z., Radding, C. M., Masson J., West S. C. & Egelman, E. H. 1999. Human Dmc1 protein binds DNA as an octameric ring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 96: 10684-10688.
Passy, S. I., Pan, Y. & Lowe, R. L. 1999. Ecology of the major periphytic diatom communities from the Mesta River system, Bulgaria. International Review Hydrobiology 84 (2): 129-174.
Passy, S. I., Yu, X., Li, Z., Radding, C. M. & Egelman, E. H. 1999. Rings and filaments of protein from bacteriophage suggest a new superfamily of recombination proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 96: 4279-4284.
Passy, S. I., Kociolek, J. P. & Lowe, R. L. 1997. Five new Gomphonema species (Bacillariophyta) from rivers in South Africa and Swaziland. Journal of Phycology 33: 455-474.
Passy-Tolar, S. I. & Lowe, R. L. 1995. Gomphoneis mesta (Bacillariophyta). II. Morphology of the initial frustules and perizonium ultrastructure with some inferences about diatom evolution. Journal of Phycology 31: 447-456.
Passy-Tolar, S. I. & Lowe, R. L. 1994. Taxonomy and ultrastructure of Gomphoneis mesta sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta), a new epilithic diatom from the Mesta River, Bulgaria. Journal of Phycology 30: 885-891.