An integrated assessment of impacts to ecosystem services associated with prairie pothole wetland drainage quantifying wide-ranging losses

CJ Whitfield, E Cavaliere, HM Baulch, RG Clark… - FACETS, 2024 - facetsjournal.com
In many regions, a tradeoff exists between draining wetlands to support the expansion of
agricultural land, and conserving wetlands to maintain their valuable ecosystem services …

Inundation of depressional wetlands declines under a changing climate

DW Londe, D Dvorett, CA Davis, SR Loss… - Climatic Change, 2022 - Springer
Wetlands provide many important ecosystem functions and services worldwide and are
hotspots of biological diversity. However, depressional wetlands are particularly vulnerable …

Synergistic interaction of climate and land-use drivers alter the function of North American, prairie-pothole wetlands

OP McKenna, SR Kucia, DM Mushet, MJ Anteau… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Prairie-pothole wetlands provide the critical habitat necessary for supporting North American
migratory waterfowl populations. However, climate and land-use change threaten the …

Making the leap from ponds to landscapes: Integrating field-based monitoring of amphibians and wetlands with satellite observations

EM Brice, M Halabisky, AM Ray - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
A unifying goal of wetland monitoring programs is to characterize how wetland flooding and
drying regimes vary in space and time. In remote and mountainous regions, wetlands have …

Species abundance modelling of arctic-boreal zone ducks informed by satellite remote sensing

MA Merchant, MJ Battaglia, N French, K Smith… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Arctic-Boreal zone (ABZ) covers over 26 million km2 and is home to numerous duck
species; however, understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of their populations across …

Climate change will impact surface water extents and dynamics across the central United States

MK Vanderhoof, JR Christensen, LC Alexander… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is projected to impact river, lake, and wetland hydrology, with global
implications for the condition and productivity of aquatic ecosystems. We integrated Sentinel …

[HTML][HTML] Climate and land use driven ecosystem homogenization in the Prairie Pothole Region

K McLean, D Mushet, J Sweetman - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
The homogenization of freshwater ecosystems and their biological communities has
emerged as a prevalent and concerning phenomenon because of the loss of ecosystem …

Persistence of amphibian metapopulation occupancy in dynamic wetlandscapes

LE Bertassello, JW Jawitz, E Bertuzzo, G Botter… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Occupancy and persistence of amphibian populations in patchy wetland habitats is
influenced by landscape heterogeneity, species traits, and hydroclimatic variability. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Land cover and land use change in the US Prairie Pothole Region using the USDA Cropland Data Layer

WG Alemu, GM Henebry, AM Melesse - Land, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is a biotically important region of grassland, wetland, and
cropland that traverses the Canada-US border. Significant amounts of grasslands and …

Limited shifts in the distribution of migratory bird breeding habitat density in response to future changes in climate

OP McKenna, DM Mushet, SR Kucia… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grasslands, and the depressional wetlands that exist throughout them, are endangered
ecosystems that face both climate and land‐use change pressures. Tens of millions of …