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Climate change is altering the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Quantifying ecosystem responses to extreme events at the landscape scale is critical for understanding and responding to climat...
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In the face of accelerating climate change and rising sea levels, quantifying surface elevation change dynamics in coastal wetlands can help to develop a more complete understanding of the implications of sea-...
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Surface Elevation Change Dynamics in Coastal Marshes Along the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico: Anticipating Effects of Rising Sea-Level and Intensifying Hurricanes
Accelerated sea-level rise and intensifying hurricanes highlight the need to better understand surface elevation change in coastal wetlands. We used the surface elevation table-marker horizon approach to measu...
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Hurricane Sandy Effects on Coastal Marsh Elevation Change
High-magnitude storm events such as Hurricane Sandy are powerful agents of geomorphic change in coastal marshes, potentially altering their surface elevation trajectories. But how do a storm’s impacts vary acr...
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Tools for assessing and communicating salt marsh condition are essential to guide decisions aimed at maintaining or restoring ecosystem integrity and services. Multimetric indices (MMIs) are increasingly used ...
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Earth's biodiversity and carbon uptake by plants, or primary productivity, are intricately interlinked, underlie many essential ecosystem processes, and depend on the interplay among environmental factors, man...
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Macroclimatic change expected to transform coastal wetland ecosystems this century
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Getting the Message Across: Using Ecological Integrity to Communicate with Resource Managers
This chapter describes and illustrates how concepts of ecological integrity, thresholds, and reference conditions can be integrated into a research and monitoring framework for natural resource management. Eco...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
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Two decades ago the first Earth Summit raised the question of how biological diversity loss alters ecosystem functioning and affects humanity; this Review looks at the progress made towards answering this ques...
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Ecology in the Real World: How Might We Progress?
In this chapter, the authors consider how the various chapters in the book collectively contribute to ecological studies in the real world of large-scale, long-term phenomena. A framework is presented to descr...
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Structural Equation Modeling and Ecological Experiments
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