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Displaying 1 - 10 of 62,950 Publications- Multiple studies have found that exposure to greenspace during pregnancy is associated with increased birthweight (Hu et al., 2021) and a reduced probability of a small-for-gestational-age birth. However, because exposure to greenspace is associated with demographic correlates of health, studies may suffer from residual confounding. In addition, results may be influenced by the self-selection of healthier women into greener neighborhoods. We address these limitations by using the number of trees planted around maternal address as a novel exposure metric. Compared to existing tree cover, new tr...AuthorsGeoffrey H. Donovan, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Abigail R. Kaminski, Yvonne L. MichaelKeywordsSourceScience of The Total Environment. 975(150): 179229.Year2025
- The non-material benefits obtained through interaction with nature are known as cultural services. We employed an online survey to value cultural services provided by the Fanjing Mountain National Nature Reserve, China. The valuation combined a stated-preference approach with online deliberation, where participants considered and discussed the services through typing in chat groups. The services perceived by most participants, in descending order, were spiritual experiences, recreation, aesthetic appreciation, education, and scientific value. In two hypothetical scenarios, where participants w...AuthorsHaojie Chen, Tong Zhang, Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Matthew R. Sloggy, Luhua Wu, Haohan LuoKeywordsSourceEcological Economics. 235(2): 108632Year2025
- Several hypotheses attempt to explain why bats collide with wind turbines. One recent hypothesis is that collisions result from bats scent marking turbines and that scent-marked turbines produce odor plumes that attract bats. This olfaction hypothesis is intriguing, but currently lacks the ecological context required to assess its plausibility. To provide context, we review when we expect Northern Hoary Bats and Mexican Free-tailed Bats to scent mark under natural conditions, and determine if our findings align with observations of bats interacting with wind turbines. We then consider the plau...AuthorsJeff Clerc, Elizabeth Rogers, Nathan Fuller, Kristin Jonasson, Laura Dempsey, Alyson F. Brokaw, Theodore J. Weller, Chrissy HowellSourceJournal of North American Bat Research Notes. N3: 1-7.Year2025
- Fog inundation along California's Coast Range creates microclimates that support coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.) forests during the summer drought period. With changes in land use and climate, the coast redwood ecosystem is more susceptible to increased drought stress. Thus, understanding the role of fog in relieving drought stress is important to manage the remaining coast redwood forests. Fog presence, other climatic conditions, soil moisture, and sap flow were monitored at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds in northwestern California over the 2020, 2021, and 2022 f...AuthorsJulia Petreshen, Salli F. Dymond, Elizabeth Keppeler, Scott T. Allen, Joseph W. WagenbrennerKeywordsSourceAgricultural and Forest Meteorology. 368(2): 110525Year2025
- Forest thinning and prescribed fire are expected to improve the climate resilience and water security of forests in the western U.S., but few studies have directly modeled the hydrological effects of multi-decadal landscape-scale forest disturbance. By updating a distributed process-based hydrological model (DHSVM) with vegetation maps from a distributed forest ecosystem model (LANDIS-II), we simulate the water resource impacts of forest management scenarios targeting partial or full restoration of the pre-colonial disturbance return interval in the central Sierra Nevada mountains. In a fully ...AuthorsE. N. Boardman, Z. Duan, M. S. Wigmosta, S. W. Flake, M. R. Sloggy, J. Tarricone, A. A. HarpoldKeywordsSourceWater Resources Research. 61(4): 2147.Year2025
- Pinus densa, an endemic and keystone tree in Florida's endangered pine rocklands ecosystem, faces increasing threats from sea level rise and salt intrusion. Ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi are critical for pine recruitment and survival, yet their diversity and response to salinity in this ecosystem have been unstudied. We used metabarcoding to survey the naturally occurring ECM fungi on the roots of mature Pinus densa at eight field sites with varying elevations, soil salinities, habitat patch sizes and distances from the ocean, followed by a manipulative greenhouse experiment to assess potential ...AuthorsElena Karlsen‐Ayala, Michelle Jusino, Matthew E. Smith, Romina GazisKeywordsSourceMolecular EcologyYear2025
- Due to concentrated surface water runoff, edge-of-field buffers may ineffectually mitigate agricultural nonpoint source pollution. To address this challenge, we evaluated the AgBufferBuilder (ABB) tool, which designs nonlinear buffers based on hydrologic modeling. ABB was tested on 45 areas of interest (AOIs) within the Saginaw Bay basin in central Michigan (United States) to determine the effectiveness of ABB at improving sediment trapping efficiency from runoff compared to existing conditions. While ABB did not consistently achieve the target sediment trapping efficiency rate of 75% in all A...AuthorsPatrick T. Oelschlager, Aaron W. Thompson, Kristin Floress, Ishraq Awashra, David Barbarash, Jacob Battista, Sara McMillanKeywordsSourceJournal of Soil and Water ConservationYear2025
- Urban forests provide ecosystem services that are public goods with local (shade) to global (carbon sequestration) benefits and occur on both public and private lands. Thus, incentives for private tree owners to invest in tree care may fall short of those of a public forest manager aiming to optimize ecosystem service benefits for society. The management of a forest pest provides a salient focus area because pests threaten public goods provision and pest management generates feedback that mitigates future risks to forests. We use a game theoretic model to determine optimal pest treatment subsi...AuthorsAndrew R. Tilman, Robert G. HaightKeywordsSourceEcological EconomicsYear2025
- The ambrosia beetle Megaplatypus mutatus (Chapuis) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Platypodinae) is native to South America and is an important forest pest in poplar plantations in Argentina as well as in Italy where it has been introduced. Unlike most platypodine ambrosia beetles, it targets specifically live and vigorous trees. We report for the first time an attack on African mahogany trees, Khaya grandifoliola C. DC., by M. mutatus in Brazil, indicating its preference for trees with larger diameters. Most attacked trees exhibited only one or two gallery entrance holes, primarily along the lowe...AuthorsLuana de Souza Covre, Robert A. Haack, Jean Carlos Pereira de Castro, José Cola Zanuncio, Carlos Alberto Hector. FlechtmannKeywordsSourceRevista Brasileira de EntomologiaYear2025
- Urban forest patches, including woodland interiors and bounding edge habitat, result from secondary succession and fragmentation of more extensive forested landscapes in the eastern United States. Management regimes, surrounding land use, and successional processes lead to distinct environments and contribute to local and regional heterogeneity. However, many woodlands are degraded due to frequent disturbance, aggressive exotic species, and heavy browsing, which stress canopies, reduce regeneration, and may reduce ecosystem services. Effective management requires rapid, repeatable assessment o...AuthorsMatthew Baker, Ian Yesilonis, Laura Templeton, Beatriz Shobe, Jaelyn Bos, Nancy Sonti, Katherine LautarKeywordsSourceEcosphereYear2025