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Trees as brokers in social networks: Cascades of rights and benefits from a Cultural Keystone Species
Indigenous trees play key roles in West African landscapes, such as the néré tree ( Parkia biglobosa (Jacq.) R.Br. ex G.Don). We applied...
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Marine extinctions and their drivers
A literature review was conducted to investigate marine global and local extinctions and their drivers; the review followed the PRISMA-EcoEvo...
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Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity
PurposeMarine vertebrate populations have halved in the past decades, and invasive species are a major driver for this loss. While many model the...
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Strategic Forest Reserves can protect biodiversity in the western United States and mitigate climate change
Forest preservation is crucial for protecting biodiversity and mitigating climate change. Here we assess current forest preservation in the western...
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Operational assessment tool for forest carbon dynamics for the United States: a new spatially explicit approach linking the LUCAS and CBM-CFS3 models
BackgroundQuantifying the carbon balance of forested ecosystems has been the subject of intense study involving the development of numerous...
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Long-term and seasonal trends of water parameters in the karst riverine catchment and general literature overview based on CiteSpace
Although Europe is the continent with the highest proportion of karst areas, where hydrological systems are essential but extremely sensitive, data...
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Recent Changes in Nitrogen Sources and Load Components to Estuaries of the Contiguous United States
Regional Spatially Referenced Regressions on Watershed models were used to update 2002 delivered nitrogen (N) loads to estuaries of the contiguous US...
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Relating environmental variables with aquatic community structure in an agricultural/urban coldwater stream
BackgroundUrban areas are often built along large rivers and surrounded by agricultural land. This may lead to small tributary streams that have...
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Evaluation of Karst Aquifer Water Quality Associated with Agricultural Land Use
The quality of groundwater in karst aquifers has a direct bearing upon aquatic and human health across significant parts of the ice-free land...
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Hundred year projected carbon loads and species compositions for four National Forests in the northwestern USA
BackgroundForests are an important component of the global carbon balance, and climate sensitive growth and yield models are an essential tool when...
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Effects of harvest, fire, and pest/pathogen disturbances on the West Cascades ecoregion carbon balance
BackgroundDisturbance is a key influence on forest carbon dynamics, but the complexity of spatial and temporal patterns in forest disturbance makes...
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Risk valuation of ecological resources at contaminated deactivation and decommissioning facilities: methodology and a case study at the Department of Energy’s Hanford site
Many countries are faced with monumental cleanup tasks remaining from World War II and the Cold War and consistent methodologies are essential to...
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An environmental assessment of small hydropower in India: the real costs of dams’ construction under a life cycle perspective
PurposeIn the last years, India has taken a number of initiatives to boost small hydropower development based on the assumption of being a green...
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Coastal Habitats of the Gulf of Mexico
Urbanization and industrial development pressures have seriously impacted coastal ecosystems, including vegetated intertidal and subtidal marine...
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Human Alterations of Rivers
People have been altering the environment since prehistory. Archeological records and the stratigraphy of valley bottoms suggest that prehistoric...
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Exotic Annual Bromus Invasions: Comparisons Among Species and Ecoregions in the Western United States
Exotic annual Bromus species are widely recognized for their potential to invade, dominate, and alter the structure and function of ecosystems. In...
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Wildfire, climate, and perceptions in Northeast Oregon
Wildfire poses a rising threat in the western USA, fueled by synergies between historical fire suppression, changing land use, insects and disease,...
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An evaluation of a bed instability index as an indicator of habitat quality in mountain streams of the northwestern United States
Managers of aquatic resources benefit from indices of habitat quality that are reproducible and easy to measure, demonstrate a link between habitat...
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Case Studies of Artful Rainwater Design
Imagine this scenario: You’re a designer with a solid regional reputation. One day, the director of campus construction at a local community college...
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Landscape Evaluation and Restoration Planning
Contemporary land managers are beginning to understand that landscapes of the early 20th century exhibited complex patterns of compositional and...