Search Results - "Christopher Neill"

Ecological homogenization of urban USA by Groffman, Peter M, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Bettez, Neil D, Grove, J Morgan, Hall, Sharon J, Heffernan, James B, Hobbie, Sarah E, Larson, Kelli L, Morse, Jennifer L, Neill, Christopher, Nelson, Kristen, O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath, Ogden, Laura, Pataki, Diane E, Polsky, Colin, Chowdhury, Rinku Roy, Steele, Meredith K

“…A visually apparent but scientifically untested outcome of land-use change is homogenization across urban areas, where neighborhoods in different parts of the…”
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Effects of land cover change on evapotranspiration and streamflow of small catchments in the Upper Xingu River Basin, Central Brazil by Dias, Lívia Cristina Pinto, Macedo, Márcia N., Costa, Marcos Heil, Coe, Michael T., Neill, Christopher

“…Upper Xingu River Basin, southeastern Amazonia. This study assessed the influence of land cover changes on evapotranspiration and streamflow in small…”
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Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care by Polsky, Colin, Grove, Morgan, Knudson, Chris, Groffman, Peter M., Bettez, Neil, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Hall, Sharon J., Heffernan, James B., Hobbie, Sarah E., Larson, Kelli L., Morse, Jennifer L., Neill, Christopher, Nelson, Kristen C., Ogden, Laura A., O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath, Pataki, Diane E., Chowdhury, Rinku Roy, Steele, Meredith K.

“…Changes in land use, land cover, and land management present some of the greatest potential global environmental challenges of the 21st century. Urbanization,…”
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Intraspecific trait variability facilitates tree species persistence along riparian forest edges in Southern Amazonia by Maracahipes-Santos, Leonardo, Silvério, Divino Vicente, Maracahipes, Leandro, Macedo, Marcia Nunes, Lenza, Eddie, Jankowski, Kathi Jo, Wong, Michelle Y., Silva, Antônio Carlos Silveiro da, Neill, Christopher, Durigan, Giselda, Brando, Paulo Monteiro

“…Tropical forest fragmentation from agricultural expansion alters the microclimatic conditions of the remaining forests, with effects on vegetation structure…”
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Going beyond the green: senesced vegetation material predicts basal area and biomass in remote sensing of tree cover conditions in an African tropical dry forest (miombo woodland) landscape by Mayes, Marc, Mustard, John, Melillo, Jerry, Neill, Christopher, Nyadzi, Gerson

“…In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), tropical dry forests and savannas cover over 2.5 million km2 and support livelihoods for millions in fast-growing nations…”
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Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. metropolitan areas by Locke, Dexter H, Polsky, Colin, Grove, J Morgan, Groffman, Peter M, Nelson, Kristen C, Larson, Kelli L, Cavender-Bares, Jeannine, Heffernan, James B, Chowdhury, Rinku Roy, Hobbie, Sarah E, Bettez, Neil D, Hall, Sharon J, Neill, Christopher, Ogden, Laura, O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath

“…Residential land is expanding in the United States, and lawn now covers more area than the country's leading irrigated crop by area. Given that lawns are…”
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Identifying the Molecular Signatures of Agricultural Expansion in Amazonian Headwater Streams by Spencer, Robert G.M., Kellerman, Anne M., Podgorski, David C., Macedo, Marcia N., Jankowski, KathiJo, Nunes, Darlisson, Neill, Christopher

“…Agricultural impacts on aquatic ecosystems are well studied; however, most research has focused on temperate regions, whereas the forefront of agricultural…”
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Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs by Banerjee, Onil, Cicowiez, Martin, Macedo, Marcia N, Malek, Žiga, Verburg, Peter H, Goodwin, Sean, Vargas, Renato, Rattis, Ludmila, Bagstad, Kenneth J, Brando, Paulo M, Coe, Michael T, Neill, Christopher, Marti, Octavio Damiani, Murillo, Josué Ávila

“…The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be…”
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Conversion to soy on the Amazonian agricultural frontier increases streamflow without affecting stormflow dynamics by HAYHOE, SHELBY J., NEILL, CHRISTOPHER, PORDER, STEPHEN, MCHORNEY, RICHARD, LEFEBVRE, PAUL, COE, MICHAEL T., ELSENBEER, HELMUT, KRUSCHE, ALEX V.

“…Large‐scale soy agriculture in the southern Brazilian Amazon now rivals deforestation for pasture as the region's predominant form of land use change. Such…”
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Watershed responses to Amazon soya bean cropland expansion and intensification by Neill, Christopher, Coe, Michael T., Riskin, Shelby H., Krusche, Alex V., Elsenbeer, Helmut, Macedo, Marcia N., McHorney, Richard, Lefebvre, Paul, Davidson, Eric A., Scheffler, Raphael, Figueira, Adelaine Michela e Silva, Porder, Stephen, Deegan, Linda A.

“…The expansion and intensification of soya bean agriculture in southeastern Amazonia can alter watershed hydrology and biogeochemistry by changing the land…”
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The effect of mineral and organic nutrient input on yields and nitrogen balances in western Kenya by Tully, Katherine L., Wood, Stephen A., Almaraz, Maya, Neill, Christopher, Palm, Cheryl

“…•In sub-Saharan Africa, declining soil fertility constrains crop productivity.•Maize yields increased with nitrogen (N) inputs when rainfall was adequate.•In…”
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Gaseous and fluvial carbon export from an Amazon forest watershed by Neu, Vania, Neill, Christopher, Krusche, Alex V

“…The transfer of carbon (C) from Amazon forests to aquatic ecosystems as CO2 supersaturated in groundwater that outgases to the atmosphere after it reaches…”
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Land management impacts on runoff sources in small Amazon watersheds by Chaves, Joaquín, Neill, Christopher, Germer, Sonja, Neto, Sérgio Gouveia, Krusche, Alex, Elsenbeer, Helmut

“…Forest clearing and conversion to cattle pasture in the lowland Amazon region has been linked to soil compaction and increased soil water storage, which…”
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Implications of long-term land-use change for the hydrology and solute budgets of small catchments in Amazonia by Germer, Sonja, Neill, Christopher, Vetter, Tobias, Chaves, Joaquín, Krusche, Alex V., Elsenbeer, Helmut

“…The replacement of undisturbed tropical forest with cattle pasture has the potential to greatly modify the hydrology of small watersheds and the fluxes of…”
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Regional Differences in Phosphorus Budgets in Intensive Soybean Agriculture by Riskin, Shelby H, Porder, Stephen, Schipanski, Meagan E, Bennett, Elena M, Neill, Christopher

“…Fertilizer-intensive agriculture has been integral to increasing food production over the past half century hut has been accompanied by environmental costs. We…”
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Modeling Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Large-Scale Intensive Cropping Systems in the Southern Amazon by Costa, Ciniro, Galford, Gillian L., Coe, Michael T., Macedo, Marcia, Jankowski, KathiJo, O'Connell, Christine, Neill, Christopher

“…Nitrogen (N) fertilizer use is rapidly intensifying on tropical croplands and has the potential to increase emissions of the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N 2…”
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Ecological homogenization of soil properties in the American residential macrosystem by Ryan, Christopher D., Groffman, Peter M., Grove, J. Morgan, Hall, Sharon J., Heffernan, James B., Hobbie, Sarah E., Locke, Dexter H., Morse, Jennifer L., Neill, Christopher, Nelson, Kristen C., O'Neil‐Dunne, Jarlath, Roy Chowdhury, Rinku, Steele, Meredith K., Trammell, Tara L. E.

“…The conversion of native ecosystems to residential ecosystems dominated by lawns has been a prevailing land‐use change in the United States over the past 70…”
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Ecosystem legacy of the introduced N2-fixing tree Robinia pseudoacacia in a coastal forest by Von Holle, Betsy, Neill, Christopher, Largay, Erin F., Budreski, Katherine A., Ozimec, Barbara, Clark, Sara A., Lee, Krista

“…Habitat invasibility has been found to increase dramatically following the alteration of ecosystem properties by a nonnative species. Robinia pseudoacacia,…”
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Nitric and nitrous oxide fluxes from intensifying crop agriculture in the seasonally dry tropical Amazon–Cerrado border region by Huddell, Alexandra, Neill, Christopher, Maracahipes‐Santos, Leonardo, Cerri, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino, Menge, Duncan

“…Rapid expansion and intensification of crop agriculture in the tropics may accelerate ecosystem losses of reactive nitrogen (N). We quantified emissions of…”
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Water quality measurements in Buzzards Bay by the Buzzards Bay Coalition Baywatchers Program from 1992 to 2018 by Jakuba, Rachel W., Williams, Tony, Neill, Christopher, Costa, Joseph E., McHorney, Richard, Scott, Lindsay, Howes, Brian L., Ducklow, Hugh, Erickson, Matthew, Rasmussen, Mark

“…The Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Baywatchers Monitoring Program ( Baywatchers ) collected summertime water quality information at more than 150 stations around…”
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