Global patterns and substrate‐based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

S Niu, AT Classen, JS Dukes, P Kardol, L Liu… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrogen (N) deposition is impacting the services that ecosystems provide to humanity.
However, the mechanisms determining impacts on the N cycle are not fully understood. To …

Effects of air pollution on ecosystems and biological diversity in the eastern United States

GM Lovett, TH Tear, DC Evers… - Annals of the New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation organizations have most often focused on land‐use change, climate change,
and invasive species as prime threats to biodiversity conservation. Although air pollution is …

Effects of nitrogen deposition and empirical nitrogen critical loads for ecoregions of the United States

LH Pardo, ME Fenn, CL Goodale… - Ecological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Human activity in the last century has led to a significant increase in nitrogen (N) emissions
and atmospheric deposition. This N deposition has reached a level that has caused or is …

Cyanobacteria as biological drivers of lake nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

KL Cottingham, HA Ewing, ML Greer, CC Carey… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Here we draw attention to the potential for pelagic bloom‐forming cyanobacteria to have
substantial effects on nutrient cycling and ecosystem resilience across a wide range of …

Do nutrient limitation patterns shift from nitrogen toward phosphorus with increasing nitrogen deposition across the northeastern United States?

KF Crowley, BE McNeil, GM Lovett, CD Canham… - Ecosystems, 2012 - Springer
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is altering biogeochemical cycling in forests and
interconnected lakes of the northeastern US, and may shift nutrient limitation from N toward …

Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity

EM Porter, WD Bowman, CM Clark, JE Compton… - Biogeochemistry, 2013 - Springer
Biodiversity has been described as the diversity of life on earth within species, among
species, and among ecosystems. The rate of biodiversity loss due to human activity in the …

Empirical critical loads of atmospheric nitrogen deposition for nutrient enrichment and acidification of sensitive US lakes

JS Baron, CT Driscoll, JL Stoddard, EE Richer - BioScience, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The ecological effects of elevated atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition on high-elevation
lakes of the western and northeastern United States include nutrient enrichment and …

The effects of the urban built environment on the spatial distribution of lead in residential soils

K Schwarz, STA Pickett, RG Lathrop, KC Weathers… - Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lead contamination of urban residential soils is a public health concern. Consequently,
there is a need to delineate hotspots in the landscape to identify risk and facilitate …

Climate‐induced changes in high elevation stream nitrate dynamics

JS Baron, TM Schmidt, MD Hartman - Global Change Biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Mountain terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems are responsive to external drivers of change,
especially climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N). We explored the …

Effects of acidic deposition and soil acidification on sugar maple trees in the Adirondack Mountains, New York

TJ Sullivan, GB Lawrence, SW Bailey… - … science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
We documented the effects of acidic atmospheric deposition and soil acidification on the
canopy health, basal area increment, and regeneration of sugar maple (SM) trees across the …