A5066298772- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Groundwater and Watershed Analysis
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Forest ecology and management
- Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
- Service-Learning and Community Engagement
- Geological Modeling and Analysis
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
University of Vermont
2024
Maimonides Medical Center
2019
Australian National University
2002-2018
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
2007-2016
Yeshiva University
2007
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
1999
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
1989
University of Florida
1980
Summary 1. The importance of hydrologic variability for shaping the biophysical attributes and functioning riverine ecosystems is well recognised by ecologists water resource managers. In addition to ecological dependences flow aquatic organisms, human societies modify natural regimes provide dependable services, including supply, hydropower generation, flood control, recreation navigation. Management scarce resources needs be based on sound science that supports development environmental...
Systematic conservation planning research has focused on designing systems of areas that efficiently protect a comprehensive and representative set species habitats. Recently, there been an emphasis improving the adequacy area design to promote persistence future generation biodiversity. Few studies have explored incorporating ecological evolutionary processes into assessments. Biodiversity in Australia is maintained generated by numerous at various spatial temporal scales. We accommodated...
This study was designed to determine whether prenatal mercury exposure, including potential releases from the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster, adversely affects fetal growth and child development.We determined maternal umbilical cord blood total of nonsmoking women who delivered at term in lower Manhattan after 11 September 2001, measured birth outcomes development.Levels were not significantly higher for resided or worked within 1 2 miles WTC month September, compared with lived farther...
ABSTRACT Aim Stratification of major differences in the biophysical features landscapes at continental scale is necessary to collectively assess local observations landscape response management actions for consistency and difference. Such a stratification an important step development generalizations concerning how respond different regimes. As part comparative framework this purpose, we propose climate classification adapted from existing broad global agro‐climatic classification, which...
Appropriate selection of environmental variables is critical to the performance biodiversity models, but has received less attention than choice modelling method. Online aggregators biological and data, such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility Atlas Living Australia, necessitate a rational approach variable selection. We outline set general principles for systematically identifying, compiling, evaluating selecting model. Our aims maximise information obtained from analysis records...
There are few quantitative predictions for the impacts of climate change on freshwater fish in Australia. We developed species distribution models (SDMs) linking historical distributions 43 from Victorian streams to a suite hydro-climatic and catchment predictors, applied these explore predicted range shifts under future climate-change scenarios. Here, we present summary results species, together with more detailed analysis subset distinct relation temperature hydrology. Range increased...
Summary Conservation adequacy is defined as the ability of conservation measures to sustain biodiversity. Although river network connectivity important for maintaining key ecological processes and ensuring persistence biodiversity, it also facilitates propagation threats along networks, which may compromise sustainability freshwater biodiversity therefore adequacy. This study aims introduce two modifications planning related catchment condition that together can improve priority areas...
Abstract. Nationally framed assessment and planning assists coordination of resource management activities across jurisdictional boundaries provides context for assessing the cumulative effects impacts that can be underestimated by local or regional studies. However, there have been significant shortcomings in existing spatial frameworks supporting national Australia's rivers streams. We describe development a new stream nested catchment framework Australia includes fully connected directed...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), including benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), are air pollutants released by the World Trade Center (WTC) fires and urban combustion sources. BaP-DNA adducts provide a measure of PAH-specific genetic damage, which has been associated with increased risk adverse birth outcomes cancer. We previously reported that levels in maternal umbilical cord blood obtained at delivery were elevated among subjects who had resided within 1 mile WTC site during month after 9/11;...
Summary 1. Planning for the conservation of river biodiversity must involve a wide range management options and account complication that effects many actions are spatially removed from these actions. Reserve design algorithms widely used in planning today not well equipped to address such complexities. 2. We process‐based models estimate expected persistence under alternative catchment‐wide scenarios applied it Hunter Region (37 000 km²) southeastern Australia. 3. The biological condition...
A conservation planning study in Papua New Guinea (PNG) addresses the role of biodiversity surrogates and targets, context trade-offs required for given real-world costs constraints. In a trade-ofts framework, must be judged terms their success predicting general complementarity values ? amount additional an area can contribute to protected set. Wrong predictions low (and consequent allocation non-protective land uses) may more worrisome than wrong high protection, perhaps unnecessarily...
Aim A detailed bioclimatic analysis was completed for an Australian arboreal marsupial, the mountain brushtail possum Trichosurus caninus . This done to explore climatic factors underpinning distribution of species. Location data used modelling comprised 879 records, covering entire known range T. throughout eastern Australia. Methods The computer package BIOCLIM generate a profile Frequency distributions attributes in were examined using histograms and pattern (using PATN) determine if...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has an incredible variety of land and marine ecosystems, including many components biodiversity that are unique in the world. PNG's mass constitutes less than one percent world's area, yet estimates suggest country more 5% biodiversity. PNG been recognized therefore as important region for conservation (see Alcorn 1993; Beehler 1993 references within). Recently, Conservation International (CI) small number critical tropical forest areas efforts. That priority reflects...
Summary Australia is committed to protecting its important and representative ecosystems. Foremost among protection measures the network of terrestrial marine protected areas that comprise National Reserve System (NRS). However, these reserves were often established with little regard for conservation needs riverine There has been no status assessment determine whether ecosystems are adequately within reserves. This study begins this task by determining extent through NRS. Three classes...
The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán biosphere reserve (BRTC) is rich in mammalian diversity, but geographical distribution information absent or insufficient for most species. Consequently, previous efforts to model the ecological niche and potential of mammals have been hampered. main purpose this study was examine patterns diversity BRTC using a climatic domains classification. Biological datasets composed geographically referenced localities commonly are raw input during analyses distributions...