Wetlands

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A coupled geomorphic and ecological model of tidal marsh evolution. 
  • A large invasive consumer reduces coastal ecosystem resilience by disabling positive species interactions. 
  • Annual carbon sequestration and loss rates under altered hydrology and fire regimes in southeastern USA pocosin peatlands. 
  • Biogeographic consequences of nutrient enrichment for plant-herbivore interactions in coastal wetlands. 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Can conservation biologists rely on established community structure rules to manage novel systems? ... Not in salt marshes. 
  • Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values. 
  • Connecting differential responses of native and invasive riparian plants to climate change and environmental alteration. 
  • Conserved Microbial Toxicity Responses for Acute and Chronic Silver Nanoparticle Treatments in Wetland Mesocosms. 
  • Consumer control of salt marshes driven by human disturbance. 
  • Consumer regulation of the carbon cycle in coastal wetland ecosystems. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Crab herbivory regulates plant facilitative and competitive processes in Argentinean marshes. 
  • Degradation and resilience in Louisiana salt marshes after the BP-Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Differential Reactivity of Copper- and Gold-Based Nanomaterials Controls Their Seasonal Biogeochemical Cycling and Fate in a Freshwater Wetland Mesocosm. 
  • Discharge competence and pattern formation in peatlands: a meta-ecosystem model of the Everglades ridge-slough landscape. 
  • Dosing, Not the Dose: Comparing Chronic and Pulsed Silver Nanoparticle Exposures. 
  • Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment. 
  • Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export. 
  • Dual threat of tidal flat loss and invasive Spartina alterniflora endanger important shorebird habitat in coastal mainland China. 
  • Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach. 
  • Ecosystem engineers activate mycorrhizal mutualism in salt marshes. 
  • Effects of Silver Nanoparticle Exposure on Germination and Early Growth of Eleven Wetland Plants 
  • Effects of invasive cordgrass on presence of Marsh Grassbird in an area where it is not native. 
  • Emerging contaminant or an old toxin in disguise? Silver nanoparticle impacts on ecosystems. 
  • Engineered nanoparticles interact with nutrients to intensify eutrophication in a wetland ecosystem experiment. 
  • Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils. 
  • Environmental conditions influence the plant functional diversity effect on potential denitrification. 
  • Estimating above-ground carbon biomass in a newly restored coastal plain wetland using remote sensing. 
  • Estimating ecological thresholds for phosphorus in the Everglades. 
  • Estimating global "blue carbon" emissions from conversion and degradation of vegetated coastal ecosystems. 
  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries. 
  • Feral hogs control brackish marsh plant communities over time. 
  • Field Experiments and Meta-analysis Reveal Wetland Vegetation as a Crucial Element in the Coastal Protection Paradigm. 
  • Foundation species' overlap enhances biodiversity and multifunctionality from the patch to landscape scale in southeastern United States salt marshes. 
  • Gaps in coastal wetlands World Heritage list. 
  • Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses. 
  • Habitat restoration affects immature stages of a wetland butterfly through indirect effects on predation. 
  • Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China. 
  • How habitat-modifying organisms structure the food web of two coastal ecosystems. 
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales. 
  • In-situ organic phosphorus mineralization in sediments in coastal wetlands with different flooding periods in the Yellow River Delta, China. 
  • Landscape characteristics of a stream and wetland mitigation banking program. 
  • Larval biology of the crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould): a synthesis. 
  • Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA. 
  • Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization. 
  • Long-Term Transformation and Fate of Manufactured Ag Nanoparticles in a Simulated Large Scale Freshwater Emergent Wetland. 
  • Long-distance interactions regulate the structure and resilience of coastal ecosystems. 
  • Meta-analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 
  • Mimicry of emergent traits amplifies coastal restoration success. 
  • Modeled production, oxidation, and transport processes of wetland methane emissions in temperate, boreal, and Arctic regions. 
  • Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. 
  • Natural enemies govern ecosystem resilience in the face of extreme droughts. 
  • Neotropical peatland methane emissions along a vegetation and biogeochemical gradient. 
  • Nitrogen enrichment suppresses other environmental drivers and homogenizes salt marsh leaf microbiome. 
  • Parasites enhance resistance to drought in a coastal ecosystem. 
  • Particle size distribution predicts particulate phosphorus removal. 
  • Patch size-dependent community recovery after massive disturbance. 
  • Quantifying shorebird habitat in managed wetlands by modeling shallow water depth dynamics. 
  • Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea-level rise and extreme events. 
  • Rapid degradation of Deepwater Horizon spilled oil by indigenous microbial communities in Louisiana saltmarsh sediments. 
  • Recovering wetland biogeomorphic feedbacks to restore the world's biotic carbon hotspots. 
  • Restoring diversity after cattail expansion: disturbance, resilience, and seasonality in a tropical dry wetland. 
  • Salt marshes. 
  • Scale-dependent biogeomorphic feedbacks control the tidal marsh evolution under Spartina alterniflora invasion. 
  • Size-Based Differential Transport, Uptake, and Mass Distribution of Ceria (CeO₂ ) Nanoparticles in Wetland Mesocosms. 
  • Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina's Coastal Plain? 
  • The importance of an underestimated grazer under climate change: how crab density, consumer competition, and physical stress affect salt marsh resilience. 
  • Top-down control of foundation species recovery during coastal wetland restoration. 
  • Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl. 
  • Utility of Diffusive Gradient in Thin-Film Passive Samplers for Predicting Mercury Methylation Potential and Bioaccumulation in Freshwater Wetlands. 
  • Weather fluctuations affect the impact of consumers on vegetation recovery following a catastrophic die-off. 
  • Wetlands as an alternative stable state in desert streams. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Heffernan, James Brendan, Associate Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Ecohydrology, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Hsu-Kim, Heileen, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering