A decade of insights into grassland ecosystem responses to global environmental change

ET Borer, JB Grace, WS Harpole… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Earth's biodiversity and carbon uptake by plants, or primary productivity, are intricately
interlinked, underlie many essential ecosystem processes, and depend on the interplay …

Headwaters to oceans: Ecological and biogeochemical contrasts across the aquatic continuum

MA Xenopoulos, JA Downing… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While the disciplines of oceanography and limnology often operate in isolate, freshwater,
estuarine, and marine ecosystems are intricately linked. The emphasis of this special issue …

[HTML][HTML] The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity

P Haase, JD Tonkin, S Stoll, B Burkhard… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term
environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased …

Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth

SL Brantley, WH McDowell, WE Dietrich… - Earth Surface …, 2017 - esurf.copernicus.org
The critical zone (CZ), the dynamic living skin of the Earth, extends from the top of the
vegetative canopy through the soil and down to fresh bedrock and the bottom of the …

Envisioning, quantifying, and managing thermal regimes on river networks

EA Steel, TJ Beechie, CE Torgersen, AH Fullerton - BioScience, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Water temperatures fluctuate in time and space, creating diverse thermal regimes on river
networks. Temporal variability in these thermal landscapes has important biological and …

Global historical trends and drivers of submerged aquatic vegetation quantities in lakes

M Botrel, R Maranger - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in lake littoral zones is an inland water wetland type
that provides numerous essential ecosystem services, such as supplying food and habitat …

Reflections on the history of research on large wood in rivers

FJ Swanson, SV Gregory, A Iroumé… - Earth Surface …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamics and functions of large wood have become integral considerations in the science
and management of river systems. Study of large wood in rivers took place as monitoring of …

Drier streams despite a wetter climate in woody-encroached grasslands

K Sadayappan, R Keen, KM Jarecke, V Moreno… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Grasslands, covering 40% of ice-free Earth surface, are experiencing woody
encroachment globally. The hydrological impacts of woody encroachment are highly …

Shifting stoichiometry: Long‐term trends in stream‐dissolved organic matter reveal altered C: N ratios due to history of atmospheric acid deposition

BM Rodríguez‐Cardona, AS Wymore… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) are important energy and nutrient
sources for aquatic ecosystems. In many northern temperate, freshwater systems DOC has …

Competition among river planktivores: are native planktivores still fewer and skinnier in response to the Silver Carp invasion?

RM Pendleton, C Schwinghamer, LE Solomon… - … Biology of Fishes, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Planktivorous Silver Carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Bighead Carp H. nobilis
have successfully invaded much of the Upper Mississippi River System and its tributaries …