Freshwater salinization syndrome: From emerging global problem to managing risks

SS Kaushal, GE Likens, ML Pace, JE Reimer… - Biogeochemistry, 2021 - Springer
Freshwater salinization is an emerging global problem impacting safe drinking water,
ecosystem health and biodiversity, infrastructure corrosion, and food production. Freshwater …

Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities

SE Hobbie, NB Grimm - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Managing and adapting to climate change in urban areas will become increasingly
important as urban populations grow, especially because unique features of cities amplify …

China's wetlands loss to urban expansion

D Mao, Z Wang, J Wu, B Wu, Y Zeng… - Land degradation & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Humans benefit from multiple ecosystem services of wetlands, but massive wetland loss has
occurred worldwide due to rapid urbanization. To assess the problem, it is necessary to …

Do geographically isolated wetlands influence landscape functions?

MJ Cohen, IF Creed, L Alexander… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Geographically isolated wetlands (GIWs), those surrounded by uplands, exchange
materials, energy, and organisms with other elements in hydrological and habitat networks …

The complexity of urban eco-evolutionary dynamics

M Alberti, EP Palkovacs, SD Roches, LD Meester… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Urbanization is changing Earth's ecosystems by altering the interactions and feedbacks
between the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes that maintain life. Humans …

Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress

STA Pickett, ML Cadenasso, JM Grove… - Journal of environmental …, 2011 - Elsevier
Urban ecological studies, including focus on cities, suburbs, and exurbs, while having deep
roots in the early to mid 20th century, have burgeoned in the last several decades. We use …

State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes

SR Carpenter, EH Stanley… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Surface freshwaters—lakes, reservoirs, and rivers—are among the most extensively altered
ecosystems on Earth. Transformations include changes in the morphology of rivers and …

[PDF][PDF] Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

MG Turner - 2001 - lepicolea.wordpress.com
They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

PM Groffman, J Cavender-Bares… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A visually apparent but scientifically untested outcome of land‐use change is
homogenization across urban areas, where neighborhoods in different parts of the country …

Tracking nonpoint source nitrogen pollution in human-impacted watersheds

SS Kaushal, PM Groffman, LE Band… - … science & technology, 2011 - ACS Publications
Nonpoint source nitrogen (N) pollution is a leading contributor to US water quality
impairments. We combined watershed N mass balances and stable isotopes to investigate …