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Emily S. Bernhardt

Emily S. Bernhardt

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Biology
Biology
emily.bernhardt@duke.edu
Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0000
FFSC 3313, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works

Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · February 2022 Featured Publication Mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation drive much of the variation in productivity across Earth's terrestrial ecosystems but do not explain variation in gross primary productivity (GPP) or ecosystem respiration (ER) in flowing waters. We doc ... Full text Cite

Amazon forests capture high levels of atmospheric mercury pollution from artisanal gold mining.

Journal article Nature communications · January 2022 Featured Publication Mercury emissions from artisanal and small-scale gold mining throughout the Global South exceed coal combustion as the largest global source of mercury. We examined mercury deposition and storage in an area of the Peruvian Amazon heavily impacted by artisa ... Full text Cite

Consistent declines in aquatic biodiversity across diverse domains of life in rivers impacted by surface coal mining.

Journal article Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · September 2021 Featured Publication The rivers of Appalachia (United States) are among the most biologically diverse freshwater ecosystems in the temperate zone and are home to numerous endemic aquatic organisms. Throughout the Central Appalachian ecoregion, extensive surface coal mines gene ... Full text Open Access Cite

Thinking like a consumer: Linking aquatic basal metabolism and consumer dynamics

Journal article Limnology and Oceanography Letters · February 1, 2021 Featured Publication The increasing availability of high-frequency freshwater ecosystem metabolism data provides an opportunity to identify links between metabolic regimes, as gross primary production and ecosystem respiration patterns, and consumer energetics with the potenti ... Full text Cite

Predicting high-frequency variation in stream solute concentrations with water quality sensors and machine learning

Journal article Hydrological Processes · January 1, 2021 Featured Publication Stream solute monitoring has produced many insights into ecosystem and Earth system functions. Although new sensors have provided novel information about the fine-scale temporal variation of some stream water solutes, we lack adequate sensor technology to ... Full text Cite

Watershed studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Building on a long legacy of research with new approaches and sources of data

Journal article Hydrological Processes · January 1, 2021 Featured Publication The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) was established in 1955 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service out of concerns about the effects of logging increasing flooding and erosion. To address this issue, within the HBEF hydrological and ... Full text Cite