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Scholarly Articles

2022

The Abundance and Persistence of Temperate and Tropical Seagrasses at Their Edge-of-Range in the Western Atlantic Ocean by Bartenfelder et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Bias Correction of Hydrologic Projections Strongly Impacts Inferred Climate Vulnerabilities in Institutionally Complex Water Systems by Malek et al. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management.

A century of warming on Caribbean reefs by Bove, Mudge and Bruno. PLoS Climate.

Climate Change, Public Health and Human Rights by Meier, Bustreo and Gostin. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Coastal squeeze on temperate reefs: Long-term shifts in salinity, water quality, and oyster-associated communities by Tice-Lewis et al. Ecological Applications. Embargoed by publisher until April 2, 2023.

Designing Environmental Messages to Discourage Red Meat Consumption: An Online Experiment by Wilstar et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Developing health and environmental warning messages about red meat: An online experiment by Taillie et al. PLoS ONE.

Development and Validation of an Eating-Related Eco-Concern Questionnaire by Qi et al. Nutrients.

Dynamics of Microbial Communities during the Removal of Copper and Zinc in a Sulfate-Reducing Bioreactor with a Limestone Pre-Column System by Zambrano-Romero et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Effects of Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Variability on Northern Hemisphere Tropical Cyclone Genesis by Li, Mei and Xie. Journal of Climate. Embargoed by publisher until December 15, 2022.

Flood Extent Mapping During Hurricane Florence With Repeat-Pass L-Band UAVSAR Images by Wang et al. Water Resources Research.

Greenspace and mortality in the U.K. Biobank: Longitudinal cohort analysis of socio-economic, environmental, and biomarker pathways by Wan et al. SSM-Population Health.

The human right to a healthy environment—time for the public health community to take urgent action by Buse, Hesselman and Meier. BMJ.

A New Tool to Evaluate, Improve, and Sustain Marine Protected Area Financing Built on a Comprehensive Review of Finance Sources and Instruments by Bohorquez et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Persistent shallow micro-seismicity at Llaima volcano, Chile, with implications for long-term monitoring by Lamb et al. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.

Poleward bound: adapting to climate-driven species redistribution by Melbourne-Thomas et al. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

Protistan Communities Within the Galápagos Archipelago With an Emphasis on Micrograzers by Jang et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Remoteness does not enhance coral reef resilience by Baumann et al. Global Change Biology. Embargoed by publisher until October 19, 2022.

2021

Atmospheric Rivers Bring More Frequent and Intense Extreme Rainfall Events Over East Asia Under Global Warming by Kamae et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Blacks weather, Whites climate by Mark Driscoll. Cultural Dynamics.

Decline in plankton diversity and carbon flux with reduced sea ice extent along the Western Antarctic Peninsula by Lin et al. Nature Communications.

Ecosystem-based management for military training, biodiversity, carbon storage and climate resiliency on a complex coastal land/water-scape by Christensen et al. Journal of Engineering Management. Embargoed by publisher until February 15, 2023.

Evaluating Freshwater Mussel Shell δ13C Values as a Proxy for Dissolved Inorganic Carbon δ13C Values in a Temperate River by Graniero, Gillikin and Surge. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Functional Lake-to-Channel Connectivity Impacts Lake Ice in the Colville Delta, Alaska by Dolan, Pavelsky and Yang. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services by Eddy et al. One Earth.

Joint effects of patch edges and habitat degradation on faunal predation risk in a widespread marine foundation species by Hovel et al. Ecology.

Late Miocene erosion and evolution of topography along the western slope of the Colorado Rockies by Rosenberg et al. Geosphere.

Late Quaternary variations in paleoerosion rates in the northern Qilian Shan revealed by 10Be in fluvial terraces by Tian et al. Geomorphology. Embargoed by publisher until August 1, 2023.

Life history patterns of modern and fossil Mercenaria spp. from warm vs. cold climates by Palmer et al. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Embargoed by publisher until March 15, 2023

Lithium and potassium isotope fractionation during silicate rock dissolution: An experimental approach by Li et al. Chemical Geology. Embargoed by publisher until May 5, 2023.

Local conditions influence thermal sensitivity of pencil urchin populations (Eucidaris galapagensis) in the Galápagos Archipelago by Silva Romero et al. Marine Biology.

Operational grid and environmental impacts for a V2G-enabled electric school bus fleet using DC fast chargers by Elliott and Kittner. Sustainable Production and Consumption. Embargoed by request of publisher until December 10, 2023.

Population level differences in overwintering survivorship of blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus): A caution on extrapolating climate sensitivities along latitudinal gradients by Molina, Cerrato and Nye. PLoS ONE.

Remote sensing of lake ice phenology in Alaska by Zhang et al. Environmental Research Letters.

Reversing a tyranny of cascading shoreline-protection decisions driving coastal habitat loss by Gittman et al. Conservation Science and Practice.

A Review of River Herring Science in Support of Species Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration by Hare et al. Marine and Coastal Fisheries.

Trait-mediated shifts and climate velocity decouple an endothermic marine predator and its ectothermic prey by Thorne and Nye. Scientific Reports.

Two offshore coral species show greater acclimatization capacity to environmental variation than nearshore counterparts in southern Belize by Baumann et al. Coral Reefs.

Upper-mesophotic and shallow reef corals exhibit similar thermal tolerance, sensitivity and optima by Gould et al. Coral Reefs.

2020

Advancing Field-Based GNSS Surveying for Validation of Remotely Sensed Water Surface Elevation Products by Pitcher et al. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Coastal sedimentation across North America doubled in the 20th century despite river dams by Rodriguez et al. Nature Communications.

Discharge Estimation From Dense Arrays of Pressure Transducers by Harlan et al. Water Resources Research.

A Fusion Approach for Water Area Classification Using Visible, near Infrared and Synthetic Aperture Radar for South Asian Conditions by Ahmad et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

Global Characterization of Inland Water Reservoirs Using ICESat-2 Altimetry and Climate Reanalysis by Ryan et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

High-resolution records of growth temperature and life history of two Nacella limpet species, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina by Nicastro et al. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

High resolution spatiotemporal patterns of seawater temperatures across the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Helmuth et al. Scientific Data.

Oceanic cooling recorded in shells spanning the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic Ocean by Parker et al. Quaternary Science Reviews.

The past and future of global river ice by Yang, Pavelsky and Allen. Nature.

Patterns of environmental variability influence coral-associated bacterial and algal communities on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef by Speare et al. Molecular Ecology.

Projected Changes to Extreme Runoff and Precipitation Events From a Downscaled Simulation Over the Western United States by Wrzesian and Pavelsky. Frontiers in Earth Science.

Reducing exposure to ultraviolet radiation from the sun and indoor tanning: A meta-analysis by Sheeran et al. Health Psychology.

Tailoring WRF and Noah-MP to Improve Process Representation of Sierra Nevada Runoff: Diagnostic Evaluation and Applications by Holtzman et al. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.

2019

The Abundance, Size, and Spacing of Lakes and Reservoirs Connected to River Networks by Gardner, Pavelsky and Doyle. Geophysical Research Letters.

Α-Pinene-Derived organic coatings on acidic sulfate aerosol impacts secondary organic aerosol formation from isoprene in a box model by Schmedding et al. Atmospheric Environment.

Canada’s Contributions to the SWOT Mission–Terrestrial Hydrology(SWOT-C TH) by Pietroniero et al. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.

Climate change, coral loss, and the curious case of the parrotfish paradigm: Why don’t marine protected areas improve reef resilience? by Bruno, Cote and Toth. Annual Review of Marine Science.

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the ‘Protection Paradox’ by Bates et al. Biological Conservation.

Connectivity in coastal systems: Barrier island vegetation influences upland migration in a changing climate by Zinnert et al. Global Change Biology.

Early Paleogene fluvial regime shift in response to global warming: A subtropical record from the Tornillo Basin, west Texas, USA by Bataille et al. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America.

Evaluating wildfire emissions projection methods in comparisons of simulated and observed air quality by Shankar et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Genetic analyses of diverse populations improves discovery for complex traits by Wojcik et al. Nature.

Increasing Isoprene Epoxydiol-to-Inorganic Sulfate Aerosol Ratio Results in Extensive Conversion of Inorganic Sulfate to Organosulfur Forms: Implications for Aerosol Physicochemical Properties by Riva et al. Environmental Science and Technology.

Nearshore coral growth declining on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System by Baumann et al. Global Change Biology.

Observational Needs Supporting Marine Ecosystems Modeling and Forecasting: From the Global Ocean to Regional and Coastal Systems by Capotondi et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Ocean warming pattern effects on future changes in East Asian atmospheric rivers by Kamae, Mei and Xie. Environmental Research Letters.

A Reassessment of North American River Basin Cool-Season Precipitation: Developments From a New Mountain Climatology Data Set by Wrzesien, Durand and Pavelsky. Water Resources Research.

Sea Level Rise Explains Changing Carbon Accumulation Rates in a Salt Marsh Over the Past Two Millennia by McTigue et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene by Darling et al. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Species-specific functional morphology of four US atlantic coast dune grasses: Biogeographic implications for dune shape and coastal protection by Hacker et al. Diversity.

Trait sensitivities to seagrass fragmentation across spatial scales shape benthic community structure by Yeager, Geyer and Fodrie. Journal of Animal Ecology.

Urban and rural sanitation in the Solomon Islands: How resilient are these to extreme weather events? by Anthonj et al. Science of the Total Environment.

2018

Bayhead deltas and shorelines: Insights from modern and ancient examples by Simms, Rodriguez and Anderson. Sedimentary Geology.

Climate change threatens the world’s marine protected areas by Bruno et al. Nature Climate Change.

Corals sustain growth but not skeletal density across the Florida Keys Reef Tract despite ongoing warming by Rippe et al. Global Change Biology.

Downscaling Changing Coastlines in a Changing Climate: The Hybrid Approach by Antolínez et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

FUT2 Variants Confer Susceptibility to Familial Otitis Media by Santos-Cortez et al. American Journal of Human Genetics.

Historical baselines of coral cover on tropical reefs as estimated by expert opinion by Eddy, Cheung, and Bruno. PeerJ.

Influences of heatwave, rainfall, and tree cover on cholera in Bangladesh by Wu et al. Environment International.

Large-scale replicated field study of maize rhizosphere identifies heritable microbes by Walters et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Latitude, temperature, and habitat complexity predict predation pressure in eelgrass beds across the Northern Hemisphere by Reynolds et al. Ecology.

Literature-based latitudinal distribution and possible range shifts of two US east coast dune grass species (Uniola paniculata and Ammophila breviligulata) by Goldstein et al. PeerJ.

Living shorelines enhance nitrogen removal capacity over time by Onorevole, Thompson and Piehler. Ecological Engineering.

A New Estimate of North American Mountain Snow Accumulation From Regional Climate Model Simulations by Wrzesien et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Projected sea surface temperatures over the 21st century: Changes in the mean, variability and extremes for large marine ecosystem regions of Northern Oceans by Alexander et al. Elementa.

Projecting wildfire emissions over the south-eastern United States to mid-century by Shankar et al. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Response of the Changjiang (Yangtze River) water chemistry to the impoundment of Three Gorges Dam during 2010–2011 by Wang et al. Chemical Geology.

Safe harbors: The many benefits of marine monuments and sanctuaries by Bruno et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Symbiodinium functional diversity in the Coral Siderastrea siderea Is influenced by thermal stress and reef environment, but not ocean acidification by Davies et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Themed issue on perovskite solar cells: research on metal halide perovskite solar cells towards deeper understanding, upscalable fabrication, long-term stability and Pb-free alternatives by Park et al. Sustainable Energy and Fuels.

Uncertainty of future projections of species distributions in mountainous regions by Tang et al. PLoS ONE.

2017

Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects by Armstong et al. PLoS ONE.

Arabidopsis RAD51, RAD51C and XRCC3 proteins form a complex and facilitate RAD51 localization on chromosomes for meiotic recombination by Su et al. PLoS Genetics.

Atmospheric rivers over the Northwestern Pacific: Climatology and interannual variability by Kamae et al. Journal of Climate.

Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards by Duchelle et al. Ecology and Society.

Changes in intense tropical cyclone activity for the western North Pacific during the last decades derived from a regional climate model simulation by Barcikowska et al. Climate Dynamics.

Co-benefits of global, domestic, and sectoral greenhouse gas mitigation for US air quality and human health in 2050 by Zhang et al. Environmental Research Letters.

Controlling cyanobacterial harmful blooms in freshwater ecosystems by Paerl. Microbial Biotechnology.

Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review and List of Resources by Zhu et al. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, IEEE.

Disruption, not displacement: Environmental variability and temporary migration in Bangladesh by Call et al. Global Environmental Change.

Engaging the user community for advancing societal applications of the surface water ocean topography mission by Hossain et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The Essential Role for Laboratory Studies in Atmospheric Chemistry by Burkholder et al. Environmental Science & Technology.

Establishing Pine Monocultures and Mixed Pine-Hardwood Stands on Reclaimed Surface Mined Land in Eastern Kentucky: Implications for Forest Resilience in a Changing Climate by Bell et al. Forests.

Evidence of exceptional oyster-reef resilience to fluctuations in sea level by Ridge, Rodriguez and Fodrie. Ecology and Evolution.

Extreme precipitation and emergency room visits for influenza in Massachusetts: a case-crossover analysis by Smith et al. Environmental Health.

Flat and complex temperate reefs provide similar support for fish: Evidence for a unimodal species-habitat relationship by Paxton et al. PLoS ONE.

Food Policy Council Self-Assessment Tool: Development, Testing, and Results by Calancie et al. Preventing Chronic Disease.

Foundational and translational research opportunities to improve plant health by Michelmore et al. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions.

Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change by Silva et al. Nature Climate Change.

Genomic insights into potential interdependencies in microbial hydrocarbon and nutrient cycling in hydrothermal sediments by Dombrowski et al. Microbiome.

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 by Naghavi et al. The Lancet.

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 by Vos et al. The Lancet.

The Gut-Brain Axis in Healthy Females: Lack of Significant Association between Microbial Composition and Diversity with Psychiatric Measures by Kleiman et al. PLoS ONE.

A human rights approach to the health implications of food and nutrition insecurity by Ayala and Mason Meier. Public Health Reviews.

Influence of urban pollution on the production of organic particulate matter from isoprene epoxydiols in central Amazonia by De Sa et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Millions of online book co-purchases reveal partisan differences in the consumption of science by Shi et al. Nature Human Behavior.

Molecular composition and volatility of isoprene photochemical oxidation secondary organic aerosol under low- and high-NOx conditions by D’Ambro et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Molecular insights into a dinoflagellate bloom by Gong et al. The ISME Journal.

NLRP12 attenuates colon inflammation by maintaining colonic microbial diversity and promoting protective commensal bacterial growth by Chen et al. Nature Immunology.

On the non-stationarity of hydrological response in anthropogenically unaffected catchments: an Australian perspective by Ajami et al. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Oyster reefs as carbon sources and sinks by Fodrie et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders by Weiner et al. Nature Genetics.

Population and development in the Amazon: A longitudinal study of migrant settlers in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon by Bilsborrow et al. Acta Amazonica.

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection by Siepielski et al. Science.

Quantifying thermal extremes and biological variation to predict evolutionary responses to changing climate by Kingsolver and Buckley. Philosophical Transactions B.

Rapid decline in river icings detected in Arctic Alaska: Implications for a changing hydrologic cycle and river ecosystems by Pavelsky and Zarnetske. Geophysical Research Letters.

Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: Browning or greening? by Zhang et al. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Reconstructed storm tracks reveal three centuries of changing moisture delivery to North America by Wise and Dannenberg. Science Advances.

Reply to Gautret et al by Boyce and Siedner. Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture by Busby et al. PLoS Biology.

Salt Marsh and Fringing Oyster Reef Transgression in a Shallow Temperate Estuary: Implications for Restoration, Conservation and Blue Carbon by Ridge, Rodriguez and Fodrie. Estuaries and Coasts.

The skin microbiome: impact of modern environments on skin ecology, barrier integrity, and systemic immune programming by Prescott et al. World Allergy Organization Journal.

Specific eukaryotic plankton are good predictors of net community production in the Western Antarctic Peninsula by Lin et al. Scientific Reports.

Weather whiplash in agricultural regions drives deterioration of water quality by Loecke et al. Biogeochemistry.

2016

The Association between Dust Storms and Daily Non-Accidental Mortality in the United States, 1993–2005 by Crooks et al. Environmental Health Perspectives.

Big Data Sensors of Organic Advocacy: The Case of Leonardo DiCaprio and Climate Change by Leas et al. PLoS ONE.

Climate shocks and migration: an agent-based modeling approach by Entwisle et al. Population and Environment.

Climate variability and educational attainment: Evidence from rural Ethiopia by Randell and Gray. Global Environmental Change.

Climate variability and inter-provincial migration in South America, 1970–2011 by Thiede, Gray and Mueller. Global Environmental Change.

Co-benefits of global and regional greenhouse gas mitigation for US air quality in 2050 by Zhang et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Burden of Heat-Related Illness and Death within the Florida Population by Morano, Watkins and Kintziger. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Country-specific effects of climate variability on human migration by Gray and Wise. Climatic Change.

Crusticorallina gen. nov., a nongeniculate genus in the subfamily Corallinoideae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) by Hind et al. Journal of Phycology.

Discordant temporal development of bacterial phyla and the emergence of core in the fecal microbiota of young children by Cheng et al. The ISME Journal.

Ecological Consequences of Shoreline Hardening: A Meta-Analysis by Gittman et al. Bioscience.

The effect of future ambient air pollution on human premature mortality to 2100 using output from the ACCMIP model ensemble by Silva et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Extreme Weather Events and Climate Variability Provide a Lens to How Shallow Lakes May Respond to Climate Change by Havens et al. Water.

Facilitation and the niche: Implications for coexistence, range shifts and ecosystem functioning by Bulleri et al. Functional Ecology.

Global solutions to regional problems: Collecting global expertise to address the problem of harmful cyanobacterial blooms. A Lake Erie case study by Bullerjahn et al. Harmful Algae.

Heterotrophy mitigates the response of the temperate coral Oculina arbuscula to temperature stress by Aichelman et al. Ecology and Evolution.

Historical changes in thermoregulatory traits of alpine butterflies reveal complex ecological and evolutionary responses to recent climate change by MacLean, Kingsolver and Buckley. Climate Change Responses.

Hybridization as a facilitator of species range expansion by Pfennig, Kelly and Pierce. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Identifying long-term empirical relationships between storm characteristics and episodic groundwater recharge by Tashie, Mirus and Pavelsky. Water Resources Research.

Impacts of seawater saturation state (ΩA = 0.4–4.6) and temperature (10, 25 °C) on the dissolution kinetics of whole-shell biogenic carbonates by Ries et al. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Increased mass loss and asynchronous behavior of marine-terminating outlet glaciers at Upernavik Isstrøm, NW Greenland: UPERNAVIK ISSTRØM by Larsen et al. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface.

Influence of Climate Extremes and Land Use on Fecal Contamination of Shallow Tubewells in Bangladesh by Wu et al. Environmental Science and Technology.

Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s by Mei and Xie. Nature Geoscience.

Investigating Multiple Household Water Sources and Uses with a Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) Survey by MacDonald et al. Water.

Living shorelines can enhance the nursery role of threatened estuarine habitats by Gittman et al. Ecological Applications.

Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests by Doughty et al. Ecography.

Metagenomic Signatures of Bacterial Adaptation to Life in the Phyllosphere of a Salt-Secreting Desert Tree by Finkel et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients by Paerl et al. Harmful Algae.

Morphological and physiological determinants of local adaptation to climate in Rocky Mountain butterflies by MacLean et al. Conservation Physiology.

Patterns and drivers of plant functional group dominance across the Western Hemisphere: a macroecological re-assessment based on a massive botanical dataset by Engemann et al. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.

Planning for climate change: The need for mechanistic systems-based approaches to study climate change impacts on diarrheal diseases by Mellor et al. Science of the Total Environment.

Plasticity of upper thermal limits to acute and chronic temperature variation in Manduca sexta larvae by Kingsolver et al. The Journal of Experimental Biology.

R2d2 Drives Selfish Sweeps in the House Mouse by Didion et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Recycling sediments between source and sink during a eustatic cycle: Systems of late Quaternary northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin by Anderson et al. Earth-Science Reviews.

Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking by Wang et al. Nature Biotechnology.

Short-term planning and policy interventions to promote cycling in urban centers: Findings from a commute mode choice analysis in Barcelona, Spain by Braun et al. Transportation Research, Part A – Policy and Practice.

Spatial and temporal patterns in Arctic river ice breakup revealed by automated ice detection from MODIS imagery by Cooley and Pavelsky. Remote Sensing of Environment.

Staff Nurses’ Perceptions and Experiences about Structural Empowerment: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study by Van Bogaert et al. PLoS ONE.

Sympathy for the environment predicts green consumerism but not more important environmental behaviours related to domestic energy use by Chen et al. Environmental Conservation.

Temperature Regimes Impact Coral Assemblages along Environmental Gradients on Lagoonal Reefs in Belize by Baumann et al. PLoS ONE.

Thermal and pCO2 stress elicit divergent transcriptomic responses in a resilient coral by Davies et al. Frontiers in Marine Science.

Threshold effects of habitat fragmentation on fish diversity at landscapes scales by Yeager et al. Ecology.

Toward a predictive understanding of earth’s microbiomes to address 21st century challenges by Blaser et al. mBio.

Variable climatic conditions dominate recent phytoplankton dynamics in Chesapeake Bay by Harding et al. Scientific Reports.

Vegetation control allows autocyclic formation of multiple dunes on prograding coasts by Moore, Duran Vinent and Ruggiero. Geology.

Virus-mediated archaeal hecatomb in the deep seafloor by Danovaro et al. Science Advances.

Whole genome sequencing of Enterovirus species C isolates by high-throughput sequencing: Development of generic primers by Bessaud et al. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Working with Climate Projections to Estimate Disease Burden: Perspectives from Public Health by Conlon et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

2015

Anthropogenic controls on overwash deposition: Evidence and consequences by Rogers et al. Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface.

Barrier island bistability induced by biophysical interactions by Duran Vinent and Moore. Nature Climate Change.

Calcite-accumulating large sulfur bacteria of the genus Achromatium in Sippewissett Salt Marsh by Salman et al. The ISME Journal.

Climate variability and human migration in the Netherlands, 1865–1937 by Jennings and Gray. Population and Environment.

Climate variability slows evolutionary responses of Colias butterflies to recent climate change by Kingsolver and Buckley. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

A comparative framework for broad-scale plot-based vegetation classification by de Caceres et al. Applied Vegetation Science.

Declining use of wild resources by indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon by Gray, Bozigar and Bilsborrow. Biological Conservation.

Determining the predictors of innovation implementation in healthcare: a quantitative analysis of implementation effectiveness by Jacobs et al. BMC Health Services Research.

Digitization Workflows for Flat Sheets and Packets of Plants, Algae, and Fungi by Nelson et al. Applications in Plant Sciences.

Diversity of Methane-Cycling Archaea in Hydrothermal Sediment Investigated by General and Group-Specific PCR Primers by Lever and Teske. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Dynamic interactions of ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes in water-limited systems by Wang et al. Ecosphere.

Ecuador’s Mangrove Forest Carbon Stocks: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Living Carbon Holdings and Their Depletion since the Advent of Commercial Aquaculture by Hamilton and Lovette. PLoS ONE.

Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China by He et al. Scientific Reports.

Elevational differences in developmental plasticity determine phenological responses of grasshoppers to recent climate warming by Buckley et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Evaluation of updated nitric acid chemistry on ozone precursors and radiative effects by Henderson. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Evolutionary rescue and the coexistence of generalist and specialist competitors: an experimental test by Bono et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Fiscal Challenge: An Experiential Exercise in Policy Making by Aguilar and Soques. The Journal of Economic Education.

Flooding and Clostridium difficile Infection: A Case-Crossover Analysis by Lin, Wade and Hilborn. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Food Consumption and its Impact on Cardiovascular Disease: Importance of Solutions Focused on the Globalized Food System by Anand et al. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Global dispersion and local diversification of the methane seep microbiome by Alban Ramette. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

A global perspective on the influence of environmental exposures on the nervous system by Tshala-Katumbay et al. Nature.

The Green Paradox of U.S. Biofuel Subsidies: Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Allaire and Brown. The Energy Journal.

Increased Biodiversity in the Environment Improves the Humoral Response of Rats by Pi et al. PLoS ONE.

Limited sampling hampers “big data” estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot by Engemann et al. Ecology and Evolution.

Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals by Fristoe et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Milk- and solid-feeding practices and daycare attendance are associated with differences in bacterial diversity, predominant communities, and metabolic and immune function of the infant gut microbiome by Thompson et al. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology.

Natural selection on floral morphology can be influenced by climate by Campbell and Powers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures by Mei et al. Science Advances.

Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands by Seabloom et al. Nature Communications.

Polymer-supported CuPd nanoalloy as a synergistic catalyst for electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methane by Zhang et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Recent shifts in coastline change and shoreline stabilization linked to storm climate change by Johnson et al. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Seagrass consumption by native and a tropically associated fish species: potential impacts of the tropicalization of the northern Gulf of Mexico by Heck et al. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

Severe Flooding and Malaria Transmission in the Western Ugandan Highlands: Implications for Disease Control in an Era of Global Climate Change by Boyce et al. The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Species Richness at Continental Scales Is Dominated by Ecological Limits by Rabosky and Hurlbert et al. The American Naturalist.

Stochastic dynamics of a warmer Great Barrier Reef by Cooper, Spencer and Bruno. Ecology.

Technical challenges and solutions in representing lakes when using WRF in downscaling applications by Nolte et al. Geoscientific Model Development.

Understanding uncertainty in temperature effects on vector-borne disease: a Bayesian approach by Johnson et al. Ecology.

2014

Air quality and radiative forcing impacts of anthropogenic volatile organic compound emissions from ten world regions by Fry et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Barrier Island Morphology and Sediment Characteristics Affect the Recovery of Dune Building Grasses following Storm-Induced Overwash by Brantley et al. PLoS ONE.

Building the Capacity of Coastal Communities to Adapt to Climate Change through Participatory Action Research: Lessons Learned from the New England Climate Adaption Project by Danya Rumore. Carolina Planning Journal.

Changing crops in response to climate: Virtual Nang Rong, Thailand in an agent based simulation by Malanson et al. Applied Geography.

Climate-Related Hazards: A Method for Global Assessment of Urban and Rural Population Exposure to Cyclones, Droughts, and Floods by Christenson et al. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Diurnal cycle of fossil and nonfossil carbon using radiocarbon analyses during CalNex: Radiocarbon diurnal profiles in L.A. by Zotter et al. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres.

Evaluation of snow cover fraction for regional climate simulations in the Sierra Nevada by Wrzesien et al. International Journal of Climatology.

Evidence for protection of targeted reef fish on the largest marine reserve in the Caribbean by Pina-Amargos et al. PeerJ.

Flooding and Emergency Room Visits for Gastrointestinal Illness in Massachusetts: A Case-Crossover Study by Wade et al. PLoS ONE.

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient by Lamanna et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Governing agriculture-forest landscapes to achieve climate change mitigation by Agrawal, Wollenberg and Persha. Global Environmental Change.

Heat stress increases long-term human migration in rural Pakistan by Mueller, Gray and Kosec. Nature Climate Change.

The HMA-LMA Dichotomy Revisited: an Electron Microscopical Survey of 56 Sponge Species by Gloeckner et al. The Biological Bulletin.

Impacts of marine invaders on biodiversity depend on trophic position and functional similarity by Thomsen et al. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

Is coral richness related to community resistance to and recovery from disturbance? by Zhang et al. PeerJ.

Life cycle assessment and feasibility study of small wind power in Thailand by Glassbrook et al. Energy for Sustainable Development.

Linking Stoichiometric Homeostasis of Microorganisms with Soil Phosphorus Dynamics in Wetlands Subjected to Microcosm Warming by Wang et al. PLoS ONE.

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing by Keeling et al. PLoS Biology.

Measuring the environmental dimensions of human migration: The demographer’s toolkit by Fussell, Hunter and Gray. Global Environmental Change.

Molecular characterization of S- and N-containing organic constituents in ambient aerosols by negative ion mode high-resolution Nanospray Desorption Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry: CalNex 2010 field study by O’Brien et al. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres

New Horizons for Plant Translational Research by Alfred et al. PLoS Biology.

New Insights into the Genus Lithophyllum (Lithophylloideae, Corallinaceae, Corallinales) from Deepwater Rhodolith Beds Offshore the NW Gulf of Mexico by Richards, Gabrielson and Fredericq. Phytotaxa.

Not Just a Theory—The Utility of Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Biology by Servedio et al. PLoS Biology.

On the processes generating latitudinal richness gradients: identifying diagnostic patterns and predictions by Hurlbert and Stegen. Frontiers in Genetics.

Organic carbon inventories in natural and restored Ecuadorian mangrove forests by DelVecchia et al. PeerJ.

Persistence of pressure patterns over North America and the North Pacific since AD 1500 by Wise and Dannenberg. Nature Communications.

Ranking of Tornado Outbreaks across the United States and Their Climatological Characteristics by Fuhrmann et al. Weather and Forecasting.

The reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea exhibits parabolic responses to ocean acidification and warming by Castillo et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Sea level anomalies exacerbate beach erosion by Theuerkauf et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Smoke consequences of new wildfire regimes driven by climate change by McKenzie et al. Earth’s Future.

Strandings as indicators of marine mammal biodiversity and human interactions off the coast of North Carolina by Byrd et al. Fishery Bulletin.

Tenure Issues in REDD+ Pilot Project Sites in Tanzania by Dokken et al. Forests.

Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon by Haendel et al. Journal of Biomedical Semantics.

Where do coastlines stabilize following rapid retreat? by Simms and Rodriguez. Geophysical Research Letters.

2013

The 2010 California Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex) field study: CalNex 2010 FIELD PROJECT OVERVIEW by Ryerson et al. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres.

Bio-cultural refugia—Safeguarding diversity of practices for food security and biodiversity by Barthel, Brumley and Svedin. Global Environmental Change.

Climate Change and Our Environment: The Effect on Respiratory and Allergic Disease by Barnes et al. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology – in Practice.

Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health by Smith et al. Nature Climate Change.

Community Participation and Benefits in REDD+: A Review of Initial Outcomes and Lessons by Lawlor et al. Forests.

Conservatism of lizard thermal tolerances and body temperatures across evolutionary history and geography by Grigg and Buckley. Biology Letters.

Deaths and Medical Visits Attributable to Environmental Pollution in the United Arab Emirates by MacDonald Gibson et al. PLoS ONE.

The distribution of the thermally tolerant symbiont lineage ( Symbiodinium clade D) in corals from Hawaii: correlations with host and the history of ocean thermal stress by Stat et al. Ecology and Evolution.

Effect of domestic water use on air pollutant emissions in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by DeFelice and MacDonald Gibson. International Journal of Energy and Environmental Engineering.

Environmental Influences on Human Migration in Rural Ecuador by Gray and Bilsborrow. Demography.

Fisheries management in a changing climate: Lessons from the 2012 ocean heat wave in the Northwest Atlantic by Mills et al. Oceanography.

Global and regional temperature-change potentials for near-term climate forcers by Collins et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

Global imprint of climate change on marine life by Poloczanska et al. Nature Climate Change.

Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and the contribution of past climate change by Silva et al. Environmental Research Letters.

Going Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: An Index System of Human Well-Being by Yang et al. PLoS ONE.

Habitat area and climate stability determine geographical variation in plant species range sizes by Morueta-Holme et al. Ecology Letters.

Household air pollution in low- and middle-income countries: health risks and research priorities by Martin et al. PLoS Medicine.

Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria enriched by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill identified by cultivation and DNA-SIP by Gutierrez et al. The ISME Journal.

Improving the Effectiveness of Health Care Innovation Implementation: Middle Managers as Change Agents by Birken et al. Medical Care Research and Review.

The influence of sea level rise and changes in fringing reef morphology on gradients in alongshore sediment transport by Grady et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

The influence of temperature and seawater carbonate saturation state on 13C-18O bond ordering in bivalve mollusks by Eagle et al. Biogeosciences.

Intraspecific morphological and genetic variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones by Fuller et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming by De Frenne et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Moving forward in global-change ecology: capitalizing on natural variability by Ibanez et al. Ecology and Evolution.

Net radiative forcing and air quality responses to regional CO emission reductions by Fry et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Non-random biodiversity loss underlies predictable increases in viral disease prevalence by Lacroix et al. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface.

Observed changes in hurricane-driven waves explain the dynamics of modern cuspate shorelines by Moore et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Opposing Mechanisms Drive Richness Patterns of Core and Transient Bird Species by Coyle, Hurlbert and White. The American Naturalist.

Plasmodium vivax Isolates from Cambodia and Thailand Show High Genetic Complexity and Distinct Patterns of P. vivax Multidrug Resistance Gene 1 (pvmdr1) Polymorphisms by Lin et al. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data by Nicolson et al. Ecology and Society.

A Semantic Model for Species Description Applied to the Ensign Wasps (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) of New Caledonia by Balhoff et al. Systematic Biology.

Spatial and temporal characterization of sea surface temperature response to tropical cyclones by Mei and Pasquero. Journal of Climate.

Stochastic changes over time and not founder effects drive cage effects in microbial community assembly in a mouse model by McCafferty et al. The ISME Journal.

Surface exposure to sunlight stimulates CO 2 release from permafrost soil carbon in the Arctic by Cory et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

2012

Archaea of the Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotal Group are abundant, diverse and widespread in marine sediments by Kubo et al. The ISME Journal.

Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges by Susanne Schmitt et al. The ISME Journal.

Characterization of the Fecal Microbiota Using High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Stable Microbial Community during Storage by Carroll et al. PLoS One.

Changes in orographic precipitation patterns caused by a shift from snow to rain by Pavelsky et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Combining Bayesian methods and aircraft observations to constrain the HO. + NO2 reaction rate by Henderson et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Common garden experiments reveal uncommon responses across temperatures, locations, and species of ants by Pelini et al. Ecology and Evolution.

Development and Evolution of Character Displacement by Pfennig and Pfennig. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

Dispersal, environmental niches and oceanic-scale turnover in deep-sea bivalves by McClain, Stegen and Hurlbert. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Drought and Population Mobility in Rural Ethiopia by Gray and Mueller. World Development.

Effects of Trophic Skewing of Species Richness on Ecosystem Functioning in a Diverse Marine Community by Reynolds and Bruno. PLoS One.

Evaluation of present and future North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) regional climate simulations over the southeast United States by Sobolowski and Pavelsky. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Evolving ecological networks and the emergence of biodiversity patterns across temperature gradients by Stegen, Ferriere and Enquist. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Global Air Quality and Health Co-benefits of Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change through Methane and Black Carbon Emission Controls by Anenberg et al. Environmental Health Perspectives.

A hymenopterists’ guide to the Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology: utility, clarification, and future directions by Deans et al. Journal of Hymenoptera Research.

The Influence of Ozone Precursor Emissions from Four World Regions on Tropospheric Composition and Radiative Climate Forcing by Fry et al. Journal of Geophysical Research.

Linking agricultural crop management and air quality models for regional to national-scale nitrogen assessments by Cooter et al. Biogeosciences.

Natural disasters and population mobility in Bangladesh by Gray and Mueller. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

NeXML: Rich, Extensible, and Verifiable Representation of Comparative Data and Metadata by Vos et al. Systematic Biology.

A revision of Evaniscus (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation by Mullins et al. ZooKeys.

Spatiotemporal Variation in Avian Migration Phenology: Citizen Science Reveals Effects of Climate Change by Hurlbert and Liang. PLoS One.

The use of survey data to study migration–environment relationships in developing countries: alternative approaches to data collection by Bilsborrow and Henry. Population and Environment.

Why Do Species Co-Occur? A Test of Alternative Hypotheses Describing Abiotic Differences in Sympatry versus Allopatry Using Spadefoot Toads by Chunco, Jobe and Pfennig. PLoS One.

2011

Accumulation and melt dynamics of snowpack from a multiresolution regional climate model in the central Sierra Nevada, California by Pavelsky, Kapnick and Hall. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Declining Coral Skeletal Extension for Forereef Colonies of Siderastrea siderea on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, Southern Belize by Castillo, Ries and Weiss. PLoS One.

Evaluation of simulated photochemical partitioning of oxidized nitrogen in the upper troposphere by Henderson et al. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions.

How small-scale variation in oyster reef patchiness influences predation on bivalves by MacReadie, Geraldi and Peterson. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

The influence of past and present climate on the biogeography of modern mammal diversity by Davies et al. Philosophical Transactions B.

Latitudinal Gradients in Degradation of Marine Dissolved Organic Carbon by Arnosti et al. PLoS One.

Mapping evolutionary process: a multi-taxa approach to conservation prioritization by Henri Thomassen et al. Evolutionary Applications.

Phylogenetic diversity as a window into the evolutionary and biogeographic histories of present-day richness gradients for mammals by Davies and Buckley. Philosophical Transactions B.

Quantitative approaches in climate change ecology by Brown et al. Global Change Biology.

Silver hake tracks changes in Northwest Atlantic circulation by Nye et al. Nature Communications.

Soil quality and human migration in Kenya and Uganda by Gray. Global Environment Change.

Spatio-temporal models for large-scale indicators of extreme weather by Heaton et al. Environmetrics.

Species’ traits predict phenological responses to climate change in butterflies by Diamond et al. Ecology.

Thermophilic anaerobic oxidation of methane by marine microbial consortia by Holler et al. The ISME Journal.

UNC-Chapel Hill DCRP Best Master’s Project of 2010: Town of Chapel Hill Greenhouse Gas Emissions Annual Inventory: Municipal Operations: 2005 Through 2009 by Brian C. Callaway. Carolina Planning Journal.

The underpinnings of the relationship of species richness with space and time by Scheiner et al. Ecological Monographs.

2010

Bird communities in future bioenergy landscapes of the Upper Midwest by Meehan, Hurlbert and Gratton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Downscaling extremes: A comparison of extreme value distributions in point-source and gridded precipitation data by Mannshardt-Shamseldin. The Annals of Applied Statistics.

A Global Analysis of the Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas in Preventing Coral Loss by Selig and Bruno. PLoS ONE.

Guiding concepts for park and wilderness stewardship in an era of global environmental change by Hobbs et al. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Integrating spatial and temporal approaches to understanding species richness by White et al. Philosophical Transactions B.

Interactions between nitrogen deposition, land cover conversion, and climate change determine the contemporary carbon balance of Europe by Churkina et al. Biogeosciences.

Phenex: Ontological Annotation of Phenotypic Diversity by Balhoff et al. PLoS ONE.

Phenology, seasonal timing and circannual rhythms: towards a unified framework by Visser et al. Philosophical Transactions B.

Phylogeny, niche conservatism and the latitudinal diversity gradient in mammals by Buckley et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Predation intensity is negatively related to plant species richness in a benthic marine community by Moran et al. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

Prey size selection and bottom type influence multiple predator effects in a crab–bivalve system by Wong, Peterson and Kay. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

Regional spatio-temporal trends in Caribbean coral reef benthic communities by Schutte, Selig and Bruno. Marine Ecology – Progress Series.

Shifting species assemblages in the Northeast US Continental Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem by Lucey and Nye. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Staying Green: Local Tree Protection Ordinances in North Carolina by Meadows and Sizemore. Carolina Planning Journal.

2009

Bayesian Modeling of Uncertainty in Ensembles of Climate Models by Smith et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association.

Book Review: Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change by Jeffrey Brubaker. Carolina Planning Journal.

Changing spatial distribution of fish stocks in relation to climate and population size on the Northeast United States continental shelf by Nye et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Commensal bacteria, traditional and opportunistic pathogens, dysbiosis and bacterial killing in inflammatory bowel diseases by Packey and Sartor. Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases.

Downscaling Climate over Complex Terrain: High Finescale (<1000 m) Spatial Variation of Near-Ground Temperatures in a Montane Forested Landscape (Great Smoky Mountains) by Fridley. Journal of Applied Meteorology.

Individual-based modeling of feeding ecology and prey selection of larval cod on Georges Bank by Kristiansen et al. Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Mysterious Mycorrhizae? A Field Trip & Classroom Experiment to Demystify the Symbioses Formed between Plants & Fungi by Johnson et al. American Biology Teacher.

Patterns and Scales in Gastrointestinal Microbial Ecology by Camp et al. BMC Gastroenterology.

Synergy between pathogen release and resource availability in plant invasion by Blumenthal et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Warming and Resource Availability Shift Food Web Structure and Metabolism by O’Connor et al. PLoS Biology.

The Well‐Temperatured Biologist: (American Society of Naturalists Presidential Address) by Kingsolver. The American Naturalist.

2008

Alteration of Seagrass Species Composition and Function Over Two Decades by Micheli et al. Ecological Monographs.

Cascading effects of predator richness by Bruno and Cardinale. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Molecular Microbial Diversity Survey of Sponge Reproductive Stages and Mechanistic Insights into Vertical Transmission of Microbial Symbionts by Schmitt et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Relative and Interactive Effects of Plant and Grazer Richness in a Benthic Marine Community by Bruno et al. Ecology.

Seasonality of cholera from 1974 to 2005: a review of global patterns by Emch et al. International Journal of Health Geographics.

Simulated Predator Extinctions: Predator Identity Affects Survival and Recruitment of Oysters by O’Connor et al. Ecology.

2007

Biodiversity mediates productivity through different mechanisms at adjacent trophic levels by Long, Bruno and Duffy. Ecology.

A Climatology of Cold-Season Nonconvective Wind Events in the Great Lakes Region by Lacke et al. Journal of Climate.

Delayed upwelling alters nearshore coastal ocean ecosystems in the northern California current by Barth et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Directions in Planning: Addressing Global Climate Change and Sea Level Rise at the Community Level by Schwab and Brower. Carolina Planning Journal.

Effects of Regional vs. Ecological Factors on Plant Species Richness: An Intercontinental Analysis by Qian, White and Song. Ecology.

NEMURO—a lower trophic level model for the North Pacific marine ecosystem by Kishi et al. Ecological Modelling.

Ozone air quality and radiative forcing consequences of changes in ozone precursor emissions by West et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

Putting Beta-Diversity on the Map: Broad-Scale Congruence and Coincidence in the Extremes by McKnight et al. PLoS Biology.

Rising minimum daily flows in northern Eurasian rivers: A growing influence of groundwater in the high-latitude hydrologic cycle by Smith et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation by O’Connor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Temporal and spatial variations in maximum river discharge from a new Russian data set by Shiklomanov et al. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Thermal Stress and Coral Cover as Drivers of Coral Disease Outbreaks by Bruno et al. PLoS Biology.

2006

Coral diversity and disease in Mexico by Ward et al. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.

Intercomparison of four global precipitation data sets and their correlation with increased Eurasian river discharge to the Arctic Ocean by Pavelsky and Smith. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Learning and climate change by O’Neill et al. Climate Policy.

Microbial Community in Black Rust Exposed to Hot Ridge Flank Crustal Fluids by Nakagawa et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

A Simple Model for Simulating Tornado Damage in Forests by Holland, Riordan and Franklin. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

2005

Episymbiotic microbes as food and defence for marine isopods: unique symbioses in a hostile environment by Lindquist, Barber and Weisz. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B – Biological Sciences.

Gender-specific out-migration, deforestation and urbanization in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Barbieri and Carr. Global and Planetary Change.

Methanogen Diversity Evidenced by Molecular Characterization of Methyl Coenzyme M Reductase A (mcrA) Genes in Hydrothermal Sediments of the Guaymas Basin by Dhillon et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Quantifying Uncertainty in Projections of Regional Climate Change: A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Multimodel Ensembles by Tebaldi et al. Journal of Climate.

2004

Rationale for a New Generation of Indicators for Coastal Waters by Niemi et al. Environmental Health Perspectives.

Regional probabilities of precipitation change: A Bayesian analysis of multimodel simulations by Tebaldi et al. Geophysical Research Letters.

2003

A Bivariate Time Series Approach to Anthropogenic Trend Detection in Hemispheric Mean Temperatures by Smith, Wigley and Santer. Journal of Climate.

Exploring linkages between coastal progradation rates and the El Niño Southern Oscillation, Southwest Washington, USA by Moore, Kaminsky and Jol. Geophysical Research Letters.

2002

Growth in the Southeast: Trends and Choices by Trip Pollard. Carolina Planning Journal.

Testing for trend in North Atlantic Hurricane activity, 1900-98 by Solow and Moore. Journal of Climate.

2000

Testing for a trend in a partially incomplete hurricane record by Solow and Moore. Journal of Climate.

1999

Coarse-Grained, Deep-Water Sedimentation Along a Border Fault Margin of Lake Malawi, Africa: Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis by Soreghan, Scholz and Wells. Journal of Sedimentary Research.

New evidence for subtropical warming during the Late Paleocene thermal maximum: Stable isotopes from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 527, Walvis Ridge by Thomas, Bralower and Zachos. Paleoceanography.

Physical-biological Coupling on Oyster Reefs: How Habitat Structure Influences Individual Performance by Hunter Lenihan. Ecological Monographs.

1998

How Habitat Degradation Through Fishery Disturbance Enhances Impacts of Hypoxia on Oyster Reefs by Lenihan and Peterson. Ecological Applications.

1995

Diversity of Heterotrophic Nitrogen Fixation Genes in a Marine Cyanobacterial Mat by Zehr et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

1990

The Effects of Global Warming and Sea-Level Rise on Coastal North Carolina by R. Paul Wilms. Carolina Planning Journal.

Scholarly Works

Accelerated Research Scholar Summer Environmental Program Presentation by Caroline Kelly. 2022. Presentation.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Fluxes from Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments in a High-Altitude Tropical Catchment by Diego Riveros-Iregui et al. 2020. Dataset.

Creating and Validating a Mathematical Model of Thermal Performance in Cabbage White Butterflies by Madison Milotte. 2022. Presentation. Private at request of the author.

Spatial and temporal patterns of gastrointestinal illness and their relationship with precipitation across the state of North Carolina by Konrad, Hartley and West. 2016. Poster.

Spatiotemporal Estimation of Radon Exposure for Epidemiologic Risk Assessment by Kyle Sorensen. 2022. Presentation.

State of Knowledge: Energy Access in Malawi by Energy Poverty by PIRE in Southern Africa (EPPSA). 2021. White Paper.

Stick it to Global Warming: Characterizing Catalytic Performance of CO2 Reduction with Catalyst Attached to Electrode Surface by Nehemiah Stewart. 2020. Presentation.

Student Papers

2022

Adapting the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard to Evaluate Extreme Heat Mitigation: A Case Study of Two Boston Neighborhoods by Lauren Jensen. Masters Paper. Embargoed by request of the author until August 31, 2023.

The Book of Nature: Libraries and Environmental Education by Katherine Laffoon. Masters Paper.

Building Capacity to Receive: How Four Communities in the U.S. are Preparing for Climate Driven In-Migration by Fern Hickey. Masters Paper.

Climate Impacts on Hydropower Availability and Electricity Reliability in Malawi by Audrey Frye. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Embagoed by request of the author until June 4, 2023.

Decarbonization of Housing in California by Julia Prieto. Masters Paper.

Domesticating the Apocalypse: Motherhood and the Novel at the End of Time by Elisa Faison. Dissertation.

Drivers of intertidal oyster reef and tidal creek accretion over the last century by Molly C. Bost. Dissertation.

Ecosystem Services & Landscape Connectivity in the Eno River and New Hope Creek-Jordan Lake Watersheds, NC by Julia Maron. Masters Paper.

Escherichia coli: Freshwater Considerations & Public Health Impacts by Courtney Coules. Masters Paper.

Examining the Role and Value of Battery Storage in North Carolina: Meeting IPCC Emissions Targets Under Increasing Penetration Levels of Solar and Wind Generation Technologies in the Power Grid by Austin Snyder. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Extreme Weather and COVID-19: Organizational Responses to Simultaneous Disasters Affecting Migrant Farmworker Communities by Sophie Therber. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Farmer-Herder Conflict in Burkina Faso Between the Mossi and Fulani Examined Through Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) by Hugh Lawson Garner. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

How North Carolina Local Governments Respond to and Communicate about Climate Change by Jessica Reid. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

The Influence of Precipitation on Car Crash Risk Across the Rural-Urban Continuum of the Carolinas by Montana Alan Eck. Dissertation.

In A Paradise Unlimited: Short Stories by Savannah Bradley. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. Embargoed by request of the author until June 4, 2024.

Linking thermal tolerances to estuarine residency of NC fish species by Natalie Patetta. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Mold Growth by Climatological Factors in the Southeastern United States by Gloria Hope. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Natural Disasters and Trauma: An Investigation of Trauma’s Impact on Survivors and Journalists by Emma Tobin. Masters Paper. Embargoed by request of the author until June 22, 2024.

A New “Age” of Global Climate Governance: The Role of Youth in the UNFCCC Process by Jamie Cummings. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Notes from the Silicon Age: an interactive project on the meaning(s) of nature in the XXI century by Noel Castro Fernandez. Masters Paper.

Performance and Fitness Consequences of Thermal Stress Across Development and Time in Manduca Sexta by Meggan A. Alston. Dissertation.

A Quality Improvement Study of an Emerging Environmental Service Organization by Caroline Shubel. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Reconstruction of Asian Monsoon Circulation Over the Past Five Centuries by Manuel Hernandez Jr. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until May 26, 2024.

The Role of the Estuarine Habitat Mosaic in the Trophic Ecology and Secondary Production of Coastal Marine Consumers by Jeffrey D. Plumlee. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until May 26, 2024.

Skeletal Density Shifts in Corals Exposed to Hurricane Irma on the Florida Keys Reef Tract by Aliyah Griffith. Dissertation.

Speculative Natural Histories: Environment and Cold War Memory in Japanese, Korean, and American Fiction by Adhy Kim. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until May 26, 2024.

Staying Cool in Bahrain: Heat, Air-Conditioning, and Everyday Comfort by Marwa Koheji. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until May 26, 2024.

Sustainable Transitions in Agricultural Livelihoods: Global Change and Local Food Production in Dominica by Samantha Kelsey King. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until May 26, 2024.

Transnational Youth Activism and the Intergenerational Politics of Climate Change by Mark Ortiz. Dissertation.

Tree Rings and Oxygen Isotopes as Climatic Indicators in the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Karly Schmidt-Simard. Dissertation.

Understanding biodiversity responses to global change: Populations, communities, and species distributions by Grace J. Di Cecco. Dissertation.

Variation in Mate Preferences and Signals of the Spadefood Toad (Spea Multiplicata) Across Populations and Time: Influence of Reinforcement, Sexual Selection and Climate by Gina Calabrese. Dissertation.

2021

2019 Carrboro Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Policy Analysis by Jacob Becker. Masters Paper.

Addressing the Health Impacts of Extreme Heat: Interdisciplinary and Equitable Framework for Urban Heat Management in the Southeastern United States by Emily Gvino. Masters Paper. Embargoed by request of the author until January 7, 2023.

Assessing the Impact of Flooding Events on Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Southeastern North Carolina by Irisdaly Estevez, Elle Law, Thomas Portier, and Madeleine Valier. Capstone Project. Private by request of the author.

Assessing the Impact of Flooding Events on Acute Gastrointestinal Illness in Southeastern North Carolina by Thomas Portier. Capstone Project. Private by request of the author.

Assessment of Framing and Ideology in Environmental Children’s Literature and Application to Environmental Problem-Solving by Sarah Barr. Masters Thesis.

Characterizing the Effects of Aerosol Sulfate, Phase State and Aging on Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Isoprene Epoxydiols by Yuzhi Chen. Dissertation.

Characterizing Multi-Decadal Trends in Streamflow and Design Floods in the Southeastern United States by Sarah Brannum. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Climate change and high temperature stress alter the outcome of an ecologically important host-parasitoid interaction by Megan Elizabeth Moore. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until June 21, 2023.

Climate change, social vulnerability, and child nutrition in South Asia by Kathryn McMahon. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Climate Chat: An Integrative Review of Emerging Literature in the Field of Online Climate Change Communication by Kennedy McGuinness. Masters Paper.

Climate Disclosures, Supplier Governance, and Market Solutions on Environmental Sustainability by Herbie Huang. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until June 21, 2023.

Climate Risk in the American Financial System – A Bottom Up Approach by Ari Singer-Freeman. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Community Based Flood Resilience Plan by Anna Liles. Masters Paper. Private by request of the author.

Community structure and dynamics in estuarine seagrass systems across habitat configurations, environmental gradients, and spatial scales by Amy H. Yarnall. Dissertation.

Corporate-Nonprofit Partnerships for Improved Sustainability Initiatives by Eamon Hennigar. Masters Paper.

Dissecting respiratory responses to ozone exposure with genetics and genomics by Adelaide Erin Tovar. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until June 21, 2023.

Does More Mean Better? The Effectiveness of City Networks on Emissions Reduction Activity by Bridget Killian. Masters Thesis.

Effects of extensive agriculture on the hydrologic cycle in tropical lowlands by Angelica Maria Gomez. Dissertation.

Essays on Social Entrepreneurship in Low- / Low-Middle-Income Countries by Youthika Chauhan. Dissertation.

Evolution of Arctic Continental Shelves: Modelling Morphodynamic Feedbacks to Climate-Driven Increases in Sea States by John Malito. Masters Thesis. Embargoed by request of the author until December 23, 2023.

“The Garden is a Laboratory”: Climate Smart Agriculture and the Cultivation of Just Futures in Cauca, Colombia by Molly Green. Dissertation.

Green Infrastructure Site Suitability Analysis for Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas by Kathryn Evans. Masters Paper.

Historic Preservation and the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard: Case Study in New Bern, NC by Rachael Wolff. Masters Paper.

Impact of predicted end-of-century temperature on calcification and tissue color of the temperate coral, Oculina arbuscula by Jessica McCoppin. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Impact of winter ocean warming and reduced heterotrophy on the physiological response of the temperate coral Oculina arbuscula by Tyler Christian. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Implementing Environmental Sustainability Educational Intervention in Dental Hygiene Instruction by Wai Leung. Masters Thesis.

Joint mitigation of supply and financial risk in regional water supply management under uncertainty by David Gorelick. Dissertation.

Multidecadal Remote Sensing of Inland Water Dynamics by Simon Nemer Topp. Dissertation.

Putting Resilience to Work in Climate-threatened Protected Areas by Clare Marie Fieseler. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until August 17, 2023.

Rural Indebtedness in India: Dimensions, Causes and Perceptions by Sandeep Kandikuppa. Dissertation.

Thriving in Ruins: Marabu and its Entanglement with Cuba’s Colonial Past by Lauren Clara Nareau. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until August 17, 2023.

Tuning Overpotential for Molecular Photoelectrocatalysts of Iridium and Nickel by Bethany Marie Stratakes. Dissertation.

Ultrathin Metal Oxide Coatings by Atomic Layer Deposition: Fabrication, Characterization, and Interfacial Electron Transfer by Michael Joseph Mortelliti. Dissertation. Embargoed by request of the author until December 31, 2023.

Where Money Grows on Trees: Job Creation and Economic Impact of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Management in Washington, D.C. by Emily Galvin. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

2020

The Airborne Toxic Event: The Effects of Socioeconomic Characteristics on Ambient Air Pollution and the Decision to Over Pollute by Harrison Cho. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Assessing Economic Impacts of Coastal Armoring in Boston by Siri Nallaparaju. Masters Thesis. Private by request of the author.

Characterizing Responses of Land Surface Phenology to Urbanization, Climate Change, and Extreme Weather Events Using Remote Sensing and Bayesian Models by Tong Qiu. Dissertation.

Climate Change Alters Interregional Electricity Dynamics on the U.S. West Coast by Joy Hill. Masters Thesis.

A Content Analysis of Natural Disaster Discourse on Twitter by Deborah Reed. Masters Paper.

Development, Refinement, and Application of Electrochemical Methods for Evaluating Fuel-Forming Catalysts by Katherine Jane Lee. Dissertation.

The Dialectic of Myth: Making Meaning in the Anthropocene by Moira Marquis. Dissertation.

Distribution and Prevalence of Bioerosion Within Two Coral Species on Inshore and Offshore Reefs Across the Western Caribbean Sea by Jared Richards. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Effects of landscape-scale oyster-reef restoration on nekton communities in a temperate estuary by Owen George Mulvey-McFerron. Masters Thesis.

Envisioning the Plastic Planet by Cassidy Kulhanek. Masters Paper.

Estimating the Effective Hydraulic Properties of the Subsurface and Their Spatiotemporal Response to Climate Using a Modified Streamflow Recession Analysis by Arik Tashie. Dissertation.

An Evaluation Framework for Climate Change Criteria in Local Ordinances: Lessons from the Research Triangle by Kelsey Peterson. Masters Paper.

Generation Z Takes to the Forest: Fostering Environmental Advocacy Through Strategic Communication in a Digital Age by Mary Claire Mccarthy. Masters Thesis.

Highly Oxidized Compounds from Heterogeneous Oxidation of Isoprene Epoxydiol (IEPOX)-Derived Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Identified using Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography interfaced to Electrospray Ionization High-Resolution Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry by Caz Armstrong Nichols. Masters Thesis.

Impacts of global climate change on the skeletal morphology of the Caribbean coral Siderastrea siderea over time by Kyle Shehata Oliveira. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

In the End: Apocalyptic Literature, Minoritarian Identity, and Hopeless Futurity by Dwight Tanner. Dissertation.

Life history Patterns of Modern and Fossil Mercenaria Spp. From Warm vs. Cold Climates by Kylie L. Palmer. Masters Thesis.

Making the Frontier: Contested Development on the Coast of Patagonia by Eric Harrison Thomas. Dissertation.

On the Cooling and Freshening of Antarctic Intermediate Water in the South Pacific Ocean Between 1970 and 2018 by Alexis Racioppi. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

On the Use of Entropy Production to Improve Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods for Non-Dilute Flow and Transport in Porous Media by Thomas Weigand. Dissertation.

Rate-induced Tipping in Applied Dynamical Systems: Multi-dimensional Flows and Maps by Claire Elizabeth Kiers. Dissertation.

The Resilience of Coral Reef Communities to Climate-Driven Disturbances by Laura Mudge. Dissertation.

Sacha Runa Values and Resurgence: Implications on Payments for Ecosystem Services – The Programa Socio Bosque in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon by Fredy Rafael Grefa Andi. Dissertation.

Understanding the Implications: Tensions between Federal versus State and Technology-driven versus Technology-agnostic Renewable Energy Policies by Leah Kaiser. Masters Thesis.

Understanding species distribution and diversity: insights from temporal occupancy by Sara Jeanne Snell Taylor. Dissertation.

2019

The Ability of Hydrogen Energy Storage to Replace Natural Gas Peaker Plants in the 2030 Time Frame by Eric Fitch. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Application of an integrated assessment model with US state-level resolution to study national and regional air pollution control and human health by Yang Ou. Dissertation.

Assessing Green Infrastructure Implementation in Washington, D.C. to Promote Equity and Climate Change Resilience by Audrey Vogel. Masters Paper.

Climate Induced Migration Policies in Atoll Island States by Kiralina Soare. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Comparison Study of Classification Model for Forest Cover Type Prediction by Lingqi Meng. Masters Paper.

Comprehensive systematic approaches to understanding species diversity: a case study utilizing a non-model group of sedges, Carex sect. Acrocystis (Cyperaceae) by Derick Bret Poindexter. Dissertation.

Data Assimilation with a Machine Learned Observation Operator and Application to the Assimilation of Satellite data for Sea Ice Models by Siyang Jing. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Detecting Patterns and Drivers of Ice on and off Timing in Alaskan Rivers Wider than 150m Using Modis by Wayana Dolan. Masters Thesis.

Disturbance, fine-scale environment, and forest change in Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Julie Paige Tuttle. Dissertation.

An Economic Evaluation of North Carolina’s Energy Grid Using Various Renewable Energy Resources: A Study of the Cost of Intermittency in Renewable Energy Generation by Matthew Bravante. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

The Effect of Secondary Organic Aerosol Phase Separation and Viscosity in a Regional Scale Air Quality Model by Ryan Schmedding. Masters Thesis.

Evaluating North American Mountain Snowpack Extent in Regional Climate Models Using MODIS Satellite Imagery by Ekaterina Lezine. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Fencing for Conservation: Community Perceptions, Social Impacts, and the Utilization of Multiple Indicators to Determine Efficacy of Conservation Initiatives by Margit Bertalan. Dissertation.

Funny Atmosphere: A Podcast Exploring Climate Change by Jeremiah Murphy. Masters Thesis. Private by request of the author.

Growing up Exceptional – The Waning American Century: The U.S.’ Withdrawal from the JCPOA Through the Lens of Ontological Security Theory by Dila Cebeci. Masters Thesis.

High-Resolution Records of Growth Temperature and Life History of Two Nacella Limpet Species, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina by Adam Nicastro. Masters Thesis.

Influence of Proton Acceptors on the Kinetics of Photoinitiated Proton Transfer and Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Reactions by James Christian Lennox. Dissertation.

Microbial Source Tracking Following Extreme Flooding in Areas of Dense Swine Production by Kara Kochek. Masters Thesis.

Perceptions of Carbon Taxes in North Carolina by Kathia Buenrostro. Masters Paper.

Projecting Wildfire Emissions and Their Air Quality Impacts in the Southeastern U.S. from 2010 to Mid-century by Uma Shankar. Dissertation.

Race, Place, and Resilience: Social Equity In North Carolina’s Post-Disaster Buyout Program by Amanda Martin. Dissertation.

Renewal by Fire: Kapoho After Kīlauea by Larisa Bennett. Masters Thesis. Private by request of the author.

Replacing Maize: Culture, Consumption, and the Decline of Subsistence Farming in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico by Maya Weinberg. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Resilience and connectivity of coral reefs at multiple spatial scales throughout the wider Caribbean basin by John Rippe. Dissertation.

Taxes and Toxicity: Exploring the Feasibility and Political Landscape Surrounding a State-Level Carbon Initiative in North Carolina by Emily Hennen. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.

Tracking the Sources and Fates of Fluorescent Organic Matter in the Eutrophic Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina by Alexandria Hounshell. Dissertation.

Variability of Carbon Burial and Storage in Salt Marsh Sediments Under Influences of Human and Natural Disturbances Across Spatiotemporal Scales by Jill Marie Arriola. Dissertation.

When Change is Inevitable: Stories of Sea Level Rise and Resilience from North Carolina’s Albemarle-Pamlico Region by Kaia Findlay. Masters Thesis. Private by request of the author.

The World Whole: An Environmental History of Japanese Space Power by Maximilian Conley. Undergraduate Honors Thesis.