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The biodiversity and high productivity of coastal terrestrial and aquatic habitats are the foundation for important benefits to human societies around the world. These globally distributed habitats need frequent and broad systematic assessments, but field surveys only cover a sma...

Imagery acquired by the Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer from 2002-2011 was used to estimate cyanobacteria cell densities for 11 reservoirs in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky, USA (surface areas 8&ndash;43 km2; 864 total images spanning May&ndash;September). This initia...

The impact that microplastics (&lt;5&#8239;mm) have on scleractinian coral is largely unknown. This study investigated calcification effects, size limits, and retention times of microbeads and microfibers in two Caribbean species, Montastraea cavernosa and Orbicella faveolata, in...

The effects of cerium oxide nanoparticles (CeO2-NPs) on 15N/14N ratio (&delta;15N) in wheat and barley were investigated. Seedlings were exposed to 0 and 500&#8239;mg CeO2-NPs/L (Ce-0 and Ce-500, respectively) in hydroponic suspension supplied with NH4NO3, NH4+, or NO3&minus;. N ...

Significant and contrasting changes in tropospheric composition across the Northern hemisphere have occurred over the past two decades as a result of changing patterns of emissions of primary aerosol and gaseous precursors. During this period, SO2 and NOx emissions across the US...

To solve most environmental management problems academics and practitioners must work across traditionally compartmentalized management arenas (e.g., food, water, and wildlife) and among spatially distant ecosystems and resource users. Managing interdependent ecosystem services, ...

To solve most environmental management problems academics and practitioners must work across traditionally compartmentalized management arenas (e.g., food, water, and wildlife) and among spatially distant ecosystems and resource users. Managing interdependent ecosystem services, ...

Cyanobacteria are natural components of freshwater ecosystems. When conditions are favorable (e.g., high nutrient inputs), cyanobacteria can form dense blooms that have negative effects on human and animal health, ecosystem functioning, and aesthetics. When blooms occur they ca...

Cyanobacteria are natural components of freshwater ecosystems. When conditions are favorable (e.g., high nutrient inputs), cyanobacteria can form dense blooms that have negative effects on human and animal health, ecosystem functioning, and aesthetics. When blooms occur they can ...

Coastal and estuarine ecosystems provide numerous economic and environmental benefits to society. However, increasing anthropogenic activities and developmental pressure may stress these areas and hamper their ecosystem services. Satellite remote sensing could be used as a tool f...

This Special Issue contains a collection of papers presented at The Ecological Modelling Global Conference 2016: 20th Biennial International Society of Ecological Modelling (ISEM) Conference which was held at Towson University, Maryland, United States. Over the past 40+ years, E...

Watershed development and anthropogenic sources of nitrogen are among leading causes of negative impacts to aquatic ecosystems around the world. The &delta;15N of aquatic biota can be used as indicators of anthropogenic sources of nitrogen enriched in 15N, but this mostly has bee...

This short presentation introduces the current state of the science of atmospheric deposition modeling used by the Chesapeake Bay Program and recent model developments. The presentation documents the connectivity of the models used by the Bay Program, data needs to advance the sc...

Urbanization can lead to accelerated stream channel erosion, especially in areas experiencing rapid population growth, unregulated urban development on erodible soils, and variable enforcement of environmental regulations. A combination of field surveys and Structure&#8208;from&#...

Geospatial data and techniques have long been critical to advancing the analysis and management of freshwater ecosystems. However, these data and techniques have often been limited to specific sample sites or regional analyses because of the difficulty associated with generating ...

Coal and coal-extracts fuel a large portion of global trade by contributing to industries in energy production, infrastructure development, and chemical/material processing. The mining and recovery of these resources have tremendous economic and environmental impacts in coal-rich...

ORD has created the EcoService Models Library (ESML) to make ecological model descriptions more available and informative. EMSL is a website and database for finding, examining and comparing ecological models that may be useful for estimating ecosystem goods and services. ESML i...

Natural and human-related landscape features influence the ecology and water quality within lakes. It is critical, therefore, to quantify landscape features in a hydrologically meaningful way to effectively manage these important ecosystems. Such summaries of the landscape are of...

Natural ecosystems provide services to humans that make life possible. Life, as well as the economy, is dependent upon these ecosystem goods and services (EGS). These services also contribute to a &ldquo;good&rdquo; or &ldquo;quality life&rdquo; by influencing the well-being of i...

Nitrogen loss from fertilized turf has been a concern for decades, with most research focused on inorganic (NO3&minus;) leaching. The present work examined both inorganic and organic N species in leachate and soil N2O emissions from intact soil cores of a bermudagrass chronoseque...

The dependence of downstream waters on upstream ecosystems necessitates an improved understanding of watershed-scale hydrological interactions including connections between wetlands and streams. An evaluation of such connections is challenging when: (1) accurate and complete data...

The assessment of ecosystem services has received marked interest among scholars. By recognizing that cities and towns are largely privately-owned systems, some investigations have assessed ecosystem service provision from the private realm, such as residential areas, private gre...

It is notoriously difficult to predict abrupt changes involving critical transitions (a type of regime shift), and these changes include management-relevant events like fisheries, collapses, and harmful algal blooms. However, recent theoretical and experimental work suggests that...

Session #1: Exploration and Discovery through Maps: Teaching Science with Technology (elementary school) - EnviroAtlas is a tool developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its partners that empowers anyone with the internet to be a highly informed local decision-ma...

Session #1: Exploration and Discovery through Maps: Teaching Science with Technology (elementary school) - EnviroAtlas is a tool developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its partners that empowers anyone with the internet to be a highly informed local decision-ma...