A5006995679- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Heavy metals in environment
- Forest ecology and management
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Noise Effects and Management
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
Ball State University
2016-2025
Ecological Society of America
2020
Environmental Protection Agency
2014-2016
National Center for Environmental Assessment (EPA)
2016
Northern Kentucky University
2016
Miami University
2013
University of Minnesota
2011-2012
This article brings together the concepts of shrinking cities—the hundreds cities worldwide experiencing long-term population loss—and ecology for city. Ecology city is application a social–ecological understanding to shaping urban form and function along sustainable trajectories. therefore acknowledges that transformations trajectories may be quite different in as compared with growing cities. Shrinking are well poised transformations, because perceived crisis can mobilize social capacity...
ABSTRACT The growing popularity of digital catch logs may present a low‐cost opportunity to monitor climate change effects on the distribution and relative abundance game fishes over large spatial scales. We analyzed data from popular fishing app identify spatiotemporal trends in freshwater fish catches throughout contiguous United States during 2015–2021. Warm‐water species became more common than cool‐water many locations. Increases tended occur northern range boundaries or non‐native...
Urban vegetation can generate social and ecological benefits, so abundance is commonly treated as a proxy for greater benefits. A repeated finding in environmental justice research related to urban that marginalized populations live neighborhoods with less vegetation. However, function amenity or disamenity depending on the context characteristics of In areas disinvestment, overgrown may indicate neglect lead negative outcomes. For example, previous shrinking city Toledo, Ohio, showed...
Abstract Human activities are the leading cause of biological invasions that ecologic and economic damage around world. Aquatic invasive species (AIS) often spread by recreational anglers who visit two or more bodies water within a short time frame. Movement data from are, therefore, critical to predicting, preventing, monitoring AIS. However, lack broad-scale movement has restricted efforts large popular lakes small geographic extents. Here, we show fishing apps an abundant, convenient,...
The 3-30-300 rule offers benchmarks for cities to promote equitable nature access. It dictates that individuals should see three trees from their dwelling, have 30% tree canopy in neighborhood, and live within 300 meters of a high-quality green space. Implementing this demands thorough measurement, monitoring, evaluation methods. Seven data processes exist assess these components, including vegetation indices, street level analyses, inventories, questionnaires, window view land cover maps,...
Due to historical and ongoing industrial practices, lead contamination in urban soils presents substantial health risks, primarily due its capacity readily migrate from the soil humans. This research focused on influence of pH, organic matter, clay content extractable amounts. Sixty-four samples Muncie, Indiana, were analyzed, revealing that examined factors accounted for 21.71% Pb mg/Kg-dry variable variance (p −0.4, p < 0.001), with XRD FTIR analyses confirming binding affinity minerals...
Street tree inventories are a critical component of urban forest management. However, conducted in the field by trained professionals expensive and time-consuming. Inventories relying on citizen scientists or virtual surveys remotely using street-level photographs may greatly reduce costs street inventories, but there fundamental uncertainties regarding level data quality that can be expected from these emerging approaches to collection. We asked 16 volunteers inventory trees suburban...
Abstract The environmental sciences increasingly need to understand the ecological effects of urbanization. This is especially true for urban forest, a major component environment that relied on provide ecosystem services such as air pollution removal and storm water interception. urbanization gradient popular organizing concept assessing response varying intensity, recent methodological improvements have moved beyond simple distance-based gradients more sophisticated synthetic based...
Anthropogenic land use affects aquatic landscapes. For example, landscape-level conversion to urban or agricultural can heavily influence nutrient cycles in headwater streams via increased loading and altered hydrologic patterns. Recent studies have found that the stoichiometry stable isotope compositions of basal resources consumers vary as a result change. To this end, we examined (δ13C δ15N) stream flora fauna 16 located within forested, agricultural, urban, mixed (urban, agricultural)...
Dendroecology provides a means to evaluate how mature trees have responded climate stresses in the recent past and one approach for projecting existing forests will respond future change. This study documented spatial variation strength of growth–climate associations six oak (Quercus) species at 284 sites eastern North America that span substantial gradients temperature site water balance. Radial growth oaks was more strongly related growing-season precipitation ratio potential...
Abstract Tulip poplar is an important component of the eastern deciduous forest and one few diffuse‐porous tree species with indeterminate apical growth in North America for which there are substantial dendroecological data. This study evaluated correlations between radial tulip monthly, seasonal, annual climate variables how these varied across time spatial gradients. The strongest most spatially consistent were related to site water balance, especially precipitation. Growth was positively...