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Historical deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) over the Eastern United States has impacted ecosystem structure and function. The potential for recovery of ecosystems is relatively uncertain, with deposition paired with future climate change contributing to this uncertainty....

Variations in stratospheric ozone and changes in the aquatic environment by climate change and human activity are modifying the exposure of aquatic ecosystems to UV radiation. These shifts in exposure have consequences for the distributions of species, biogeochemical cycles, and ...

As climate change progresses in the Great Lakes, the region is increasingly vulnerable to invasion by mosquito species and increased viral transmission. Restoration activities that address degradation of benthos, degraded fish and wildlife populations, loss of fish and wildlife ...

Background: Air pollution risk assessments do not generally quantify health impacts using multipollutant risk estimates, but instead use results from single-pollutant or copollutant models. Multipollutant epidemiological models account for pollutant interactions and joint effects...

Wildfires have increased in frequency and area burned, trends expected to continue with climate change. Among other effects, fires release pollutants into the atmosphere, representing a risk to human health and downwind terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. While human health risks...

Invited Question and Answer article for Nature Cardiovascular Research on Particulate Matter.Recent air-quality alerts in major cities due to the wildfires in Canada, Hawaii and Greece have put fine particulate matter (PM) pollution and consequent health issues into the spotlight...

Atmospheric nitrate is a key atmosphere component with implications for air quality, nutrient deposition, and climate.  However, accurately representing atmospheric nitrate concentrations within atmospheric chemistry models is a persistent challenge.  A contributing fac...

Accurate fire emissions inventories are crucial to predict the impacts of wildland fires on air quality and atmospheric composition. Two traditional approaches are widely used to calculate fire emissions: a satellite-based top-down approach and a fuels-based bottom-up approach. H...

Journal article submitted to EcoHealth - (Abstract) - Lyme disease (LD) is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States (U.S.). This paper assesses how climate change may influence LD incidence in the eastern and upper midwestern U.S., and the associated economic bur...

Forest composition and ecosystem services are sensitive to anthropogenic pressures like climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S). Here we extend recent forest projections for the current cohort of trees in the contiguous US, characterizing potentia...

Atmospheric nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) deposition can significantly affect forest biodiversity and production by altering the growth and survival of trees. Three decades of air quality regulations in the United States have led to large reductions in oxides of N (44–81%) an...

During April 30–August 4, 2023, smoke originating from wildfires in Canada affected most of the contiguous United States. CDC used National Syndromic Surveillance Program data to assess numbers and percentages of asthma-associated emergency department (ED) visits on days wi...

An understanding of the combined effects of climate change (CC) and other anthropogenic stressors, such as chemical exposures, is essential for improving ecological risk assessments of vulnerable ecosystems. In the Great Barrier Reef, coral reefs are under increasingly severe dur...

Climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) are important drivers of forest demography. Here we apply previously derived growth and survival responses for 94 tree species, representing >90% of the contiguous US forest basal area, to project how cha...

Cyanobacteria blooms are an increasing concern in U.S. freshwaters. Such blooms can produce nuisance conditions, deplete oxygen, and alter the food chain, and in some cases they may produce potent toxins, although many factors may modulate the relationships between biomass and to...

This is a short taxonomic note to publish new scientific name transfers of diatom species that are described in the web resource Diatoms of North America (diatoms.org). The publication allows for corrections to diatom taxonomy to become validly published and communicated to diato...

Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution patterns of genetic diversity and the underlying phylogeographic processes is a fundamental goal of conservation biogeography. The seagrass Zostera japonica is a widely threatened endemic seagrass species in the Northwestern Pac...

Freshwater ecosystems, including lakes, streams, and wetlands, are responsive to climate change and other natural and anthropogenic stresses. These ecosystems are generally hydrologically connected with one another and with the landscapes around them, integrating changes that occ...

Mangrove forests in developed and developing countries are experiencing substantial transformations driven by natural and anthropogenic factors. This study focuses on the conterminous United States, including Florida, Texas, and Louisiana, where coastal development, urbanization,...

Review article for an special issue in the journal of remote sensing on remote sensing in mangrove. The article highlights frontiers in remote sensing assesment and monitoring at a global scale and summarizes paper published in the special issue.

Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured in purely physical terms, as they often are in evaluations of ...

Mangrove forests are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world largely con-fined within ± 10 degrees latitude. The forests provide important ecosystem goods and services to nature and society. In recent years, the carbon sequestration potential and p...

The National Land Cover Database (NLCD), a product suite produced through the MultiResolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) consortium, is an operational land cover monitoring program.  Starting from a base year of 2001, NLCD releases a land cover database every 2-3-years.&nbs...

Climate-related changes to drought, fire, and insect outbreak regimes have raised concerns that western United States forests, once disturbed, may not return or reattain prior structure and composition.  Many post-fire recruitment studies have documented absence or low densi...

Decision makers need to know the drivers of surface water phosphorus (P) concentrations, the environmental factors that mediate P loading in freshwater systems, and where pollution sources and mediating factors are co-located. Publicly available spatial datasets of P pollution so...