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Effects of Canopy Connectivity on Ant Community Assembly on a Shaded, Organic Coffee Farm
(2019-08)
Canopy connectivity influences foraging, dispersal, and competition in arboreal ant
species, with implications for ant community assembly. Connectivity among the crowns of shade
trees varies greatly with agricultural ...
Over Priced or Under Water: Green Gentrification in Gentilly, New Orleans
(2019-04)
Environmental gentrification research has tracked how neighborhoods have changed over time in
relation to either the transformation of a former brownfield site or the addition to a new
environmental amenity like a park ...
Physical and biological influences on daily growth rate of larval alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in Lake Michigan
(2019-08)
Alewife is an invasive fish species in the Great Lakes that serves as prey for top piscivores but also causes reproductive failure of some native species. Environmental conditions generating variability in annual abundance ...
Protesting on Behalf: Constructing Legitimacy in Water Movements
(2019-04)
Protest is a critical political tool for groups without secure access to water resources. The
effectiveness of protest is largely dependent on the ability of groups to organize themselves and
ensure that they are perceived ...
Human and Environmental Well-being in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay Watershed: An Ecosystem Services Assessment
(2019-04)
The Kachemak Bay watershed, located on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, encompasses several
terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
(KBNERR) conducts research, monitoring, ...
Evaluating Multiple Sensors for Mapping Cropped Area of Smallholder Farms in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains
(2019-04)
Accurate, fine-scale agricultural statistics are critical for understanding trends in crop production throughout the world. In many areas of the world, however, on-the-ground crop area estimates may be difficult to acquire ...
Examining the relative effects of nutrient loads and invasive Dreissena mussels on Lake Michigan’s food web using an ecosystem model
(2019-04)
Lake Michigan has undergone ecosystem-wide changes over the past century due
to changing nutrient loads and an influx of invasive species. Zebra (Dreissena
polymorpha) and Quagga mussels (D. bugensis; collectively ...
Farms in Healthcare: Enhancing Knowledge, Sharing, and Collaboration
(2019-04)
The Farm at St. Joseph Mercy Health System is a hospital-based farm addressing the social determinants of health and working to close the gap between nutrition, health, and agriculture. Although the number of hospital-based ...
Inspiration Ridge Preserve Protocols for Ecological Inventories and Management
(2019-04)
The Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies (CACS) recently assumed management of the 640-acre Inspiration Ridge Preserve (IRP) in Homer, Alaska. For CACS to best manage IRP, detailed monitoring of its wildlife distribution, ...
Scale, distribution and variations of global greenhouse gas emissions driven by U.S. households
(Elsevier, 2019-09-10)
The U.S. household consumption, a key engine for the global economy, has significant carbon footprints across the world. Understanding how the U.S. household consumption on specific goods or services drives global greenhouse ...