Executive summary Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support
environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a …

Wetlands are often considered as nature-based solutions that can provide a multitude of
services of great social, economic and environmental value to humankind. Changes in land …

Growing populations and agricultural intensification have led to raised riverine nitrogen (N)
loads, widespread oxygen depletion in coastal zones (coastal hypoxia) and increases in the …

One of the largest human‐caused areas of bottom‐water oxygen deficiency in the coastal
ocean is on the northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf adjacent to the Mississippi River …

Under the influences of global climate change and intense human activities, the hydrological
and biogeochemical processes have been undergoing profound changes in most of the …

In this overview (introductory article to a special issue including 14 papers), we consider all
main types of natural and artificial inland freshwater habitas (fwh). For each type, we identify …

Despite the recognition of floodplain importance in the scientific community, floodplains are
not afforded the same legal protection as river channels. In the United States alone, flood …

The ecosystem approach to ecology treats organisms and the physical elements of their
environment as components of a single, integrated system. This comprehensive textbook …

Nitrogen is essential for life on Earth. Soil biota are responsible for its accumulation,
persistence, and loss from ecosystems. Microbial nitrogen transformations include its …

Human production of food and energy is the dominant continental process that breaks the
triple bond in molecular nitrogen (N2) and creates reactive nitrogen (Nr) species. Circulation …