Search Results - "McIntyre, Peter B."
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Extensive Global Wetland Loss Over the Past Three Centuries
Published in Nature (London) (09-02-2023)“…Wetlands have long been drained for human use, thereby strongly affecting greenhouse gas fluxes, flood control, nutrient cycling and biodiversity…”
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Linking freshwater fishery management to global food security and biodiversity conservation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (08-11-2016)“…Fisheries are an essential ecosystem service, but catches from freshwaters are often overlooked. Hundreds of millions of people around the world benefit from…”
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Effect of vaccines on bacterial meningitis worldwide
Published in The Lancet (British edition) (10-11-2012)“…Summary Three bacteria— Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae , and Neisseria meningitidis —account for most acute bacterial meningitis. Measurement…”
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Morphometry and average temperature affect lake stratification responses to climate change
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-06-2015)“…Climate change is affecting lake stratification with consequences for water quality and the benefits that lakes provide to society. Here we use long‐term…”
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Enhancing ecosystem restoration efficiency through spatial and temporal coordination
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (12-05-2015)“…In many large ecosystems, conservation projects are selected by a diverse set of actors operating independently at spatial scales ranging from local to…”
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Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-08-2016)“…Warming climates are rapidly transforming lake ecosystems worldwide, but the breadth of changes in tropical lakes is poorly documented. Sustainable management…”
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Depth-discrete metagenomics reveals the roles of microbes in biogeochemical cycling in the tropical freshwater Lake Tanganyika
Published in The ISME Journal (01-07-2021)“…Lake Tanganyika (LT) is the largest tropical freshwater lake, and the largest body of anoxic freshwater on Earth’s surface. LT’s mixed oxygenated surface…”
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When are fish sources vs. sinks of nutrients in lake ecosystems?
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-10-2013)“…Animals can be important in nutrient cycling through a variety of direct and indirect pathways. A high biomass of animals often represents a large pool of…”
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Trends and patterns in vaccination objection, Australia, 2002–2013
Published in Medical journal of Australia (18-04-2016)“…Objectives: To examine geographic and demographic trends in objection to vaccination in Australia. Design: Cross‐sectional analysis of Australian Childhood…”
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Global patterns in lake ecosystem responses to warming based on the temperature dependence of metabolism
Published in Global change biology (01-05-2017)“…Climate warming is expected to have large effects on ecosystems in part due to the temperature dependence of metabolism. The responses of metabolic rates to…”
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Borders of Biodiversity: Life at the Edge of the World's Large Lakes
Published in Bioscience (01-07-2011)“…The great lakes of the world represent a global heritage of surface freshwater and aquatic biodiversity. Species lists for 14 of the world's largest lakes…”
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functional role of biodiversity in ecosystems: incorporating trophic complexity
Published in Ecology letters (01-06-2007)“…Understanding how biodiversity affects functioning of ecosystems requires integrating diversity within trophic levels (horizontal diversity) and across trophic…”
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Multiple nutrient subsidy pathways from a spawning migration of iteroparous fish
Published in Freshwater biology (01-03-2015)“…Summary Migratory animals can enhance ecosystem productivity through the delivery of material subsidies. Among fish, Pacific salmon are well known to deliver…”
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Duration of protection after first dose of acellular pertussis vaccine in infants
Published in Pediatrics (Evanston) (01-03-2014)“…Data on the effectiveness of the diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine in the first 4 years of life are sparse. We evaluated the vaccine…”
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Joint analysis of stressors and ecosystem services to enhance restoration effectiveness
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-01-2013)“…With increasing pressure placed on natural systems by growing human populations, both scientists and resource managers need a better understanding of the…”
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Restoring aquatic ecosystem connectivity requires expanding inventories of both dams and road crossings
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-05-2013)“…A key challenge in aquatic restoration efforts is documenting locations where ecological connectivity is disrupted in water bodies that are dammed or crossed…”
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Using cultural ecosystem services to inform restoration priorities in the Laurentian Great Lakes
Published in Frontiers in ecology and the environment (01-10-2015)“…Ecological restoration programs often attempt to maintain or enhance ecosystem services (ES), but fine-scale maps of multiple ES are rarely available to…”
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Body size has primacy over stoichiometric variables in nutrient excretion by a tropical stream fish community
Published in Scientific reports (01-09-2022)“…Ecological Stoichiometry (ES) and the Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE) are the main theories used to explain consumers’ nutrient recycling. ES posits that…”
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Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (13-03-2007)“…There is increasing evidence that species extinctions jeopardize the functioning of ecosystems. Overfishing and other human influences are reducing the…”
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Do grazers respond to or control food quality? Cross-scale analysis of algivorous fish in littoral Lake Tanganyika
Published in Oecologia (01-11-2018)“…Food quality determines the growth rate of primary consumers and ecosystem trophic efficiencies, but it is not clear whether variation in primary consumer…”
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