Grantee Research Project Results
Research Centers
Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research Center (MEERC)
University of Maryland - Center for Environmental Science
The MEERC was established in 1992 to establish principles for scaling ecosystem structure, function and dynamics and to use these principles as the basis for predicting ecosystem responses to perturbations. Using physical and athematical models of aquatic ecosystem of the land-sea interface from tidal wetlands (marsh and submersed plants) to pelagic-benthic systems of the open water, the goals of MEERC are to: (1) establish experimental ecosystems that exhibit reproducible responses to perturbations over a range of scales and nutrient enrichment regimes; (2) quantify and parametize scale-dependent responses to nutrients and contaminant imputs (or their analogues); (3) construct predictive models of ecosystem variability that interpolate across scales in experimental nature; and (4) determine the uncertainty associated with such predictions.
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Main Center Abstract and Reports:
Atlantic Coast Environmental Indicators Consortium
Center for Hazardous Substances in Urban Environments (CHSUE)
- Original Abstract
- 2001 Progress Report
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- Final Report
Johns Hopkins Particulate Matter Research Center
- Original Abstract
- 2002 Progress Report
- 2003 Progress Report
- 2004 Progress Report
- 2005 Progress Report
- Final Report
Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management (RAINmgt)
- Original Abstract
- 2006 Progress Report
- 2007 Progress Report
- 2008 Progress Report
- 2009 Progress Report
- Final Report
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