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View article: Data used for "Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems"
Data used for "Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems" Open
Coral reef data used for Eason, T. and Garmestani, A. S., Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef ecosystems. Under Review (Ecology and Society) The raw data was gathered from a coral bleaching study performed by Sully et al (2019). …
View article: Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems
Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems Open
Coral reef resilience is eroding at multiple spatial scales globally, with broad implications for coastal communities, and is thus a critical challenge for managing marine social-ecological systems (SESs). Many researchers believe that ext…
View article: Cyanobacterial toxins and components induce expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and secretion of soluble cell receptors in a 3D skin cell model
Cyanobacterial toxins and components induce expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines and secretion of soluble cell receptors in a 3D skin cell model Open
Exposure to cyanobacterial toxins has been linked to several diseases and disorders including skin rashes and damage to the liver and kidneys. Previous research has shown that Microcystin-LR, the most common and toxic microcystin in fresh …
View article: Coral Reef Data
Coral Reef Data Open
Global coral reef data from 2003-2016 used for Eason, T. and Garmestani, A. S., Assessing environmental change in coral reef ecosystems. Under Review (Royal Society of Open Science). The data was culled from publicly accessible data gather…
View article: Spatiotemporal variability in Swedish lake ecosystems
Spatiotemporal variability in Swedish lake ecosystems Open
Studying ecosystem dynamics is critical to monitoring and managing linked systems of humans and nature. Due to the growth of tools and techniques for collecting data, information on the condition of these systems is more widely available. …
View article: Salivary Antibodies against Multiple Environmental Pathogens Found in Individuals Recreating at an Iowa Beach
Salivary Antibodies against Multiple Environmental Pathogens Found in Individuals Recreating at an Iowa Beach Open
Detecting environmental exposures and mitigating their impacts are growing global public health challenges. Antibody tests show great promise and have emerged as fundamental tools for large-scale exposure studies. Here, we apply, demonstra…
View article: Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems
Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems Open
Managing social-ecological systems toward desirable regimes requires learning about the system being managed while preparing for many possible futures. Adaptive management (AM) and scenario planning (SP) are two systems management approach…
View article: Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management
Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management Open
Addressing unexpected events and uncertainty represents one of the grand challenges of the Anthropocene, yet ecosystem management is constrained by existing policy and laws that were not formulated to deal with today's accelerating rates o…
View article: Rapid Salivary IgG Antibody Screening for Hepatitis A
Rapid Salivary IgG Antibody Screening for Hepatitis A Open
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a common infection that is transmitted through the fecal-oral route, shed in the stool of infected individuals, and spread either by direct contact or by ingesting contaminated food or water. Each year, approxima…
View article: Time scale of resilience loss: Implications for managing critical transitions in water quality
Time scale of resilience loss: Implications for managing critical transitions in water quality Open
Regime shifts involving critical transitions are a type of rapid ecological change that are difficult to predict, but may be preceded by decreases in resilience. Time series statistics like lag-1 autocorrelation may be useful for anticipat…
View article: Visitors to a Tropical Marine Beach Show Evidence of Immunoconversions to Multiple Waterborne Pathogens
Visitors to a Tropical Marine Beach Show Evidence of Immunoconversions to Multiple Waterborne Pathogens Open
Determining infections from environmental exposures, particularly from waterborne pathogens is a challenging proposition. The study design must be rigorous and account for numerous factors including study population selection, sample colle…
View article: Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Coastal Systems of Southern Louisiana
Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Coastal Systems of Southern Louisiana Open
Natural disasters, such as hurricanes and forest fires, could trigger collapse and reorganization of social-ecological systems. In the face of external perturbations, a resilient system would have capacity to absorb impacts, adapt to chang…
View article: An Information Theory-Based Approach to Assessing Spatial Patterns in Complex Systems
An Information Theory-Based Approach to Assessing Spatial Patterns in Complex Systems Open
Given the intensity and frequency of environmental change, the linked and cross-scale nature of social-ecological systems, and the proliferation of big data, methods that can help synthesize complex system behavior over a geographical area…
View article: A method to detect discontinuities in census data
A method to detect discontinuities in census data Open
The distribution of pattern across scales has predictive power in the analysis of complex systems. Discontinuity approaches remain a fruitful avenue of research in the quest for quantitative measures of resilience because discontinuity ana…
View article: Asymptomatic norovirus infection associated with swimming at a tropical beach: A prospective cohort study
Asymptomatic norovirus infection associated with swimming at a tropical beach: A prospective cohort study Open
This is the first study to demonstrate an association between swimming at a beach impacted by fecal contamination and asymptomatic norovirus infection. The findings implicate recreational water as potentially important transmission pathway…
View article: Agroecology for the Shrinking City
Agroecology for the Shrinking City Open
Many cities are experiencing long-term declines in population and economic activity. As a result, frameworks for urban sustainability need to address the unique challenges and opportunities of such shrinking cities. Shrinking, particularly…
View article: Immunoprevalence to Six Waterborne Pathogens in Beachgoers at Boquerón Beach, Puerto Rico: Application of a Microsphere-Based Salivary Antibody Multiplex Immunoassay
Immunoprevalence to Six Waterborne Pathogens in Beachgoers at Boquerón Beach, Puerto Rico: Application of a Microsphere-Based Salivary Antibody Multiplex Immunoassay Open
Waterborne infectious diseases are a major public health concern worldwide. Few methods have been established that are capable of measuring human exposure to multiple waterborne pathogens simultaneously using non-invasive samples such as s…
View article: People and water: Exploring the social-ecological condition of watersheds of the United States
People and water: Exploring the social-ecological condition of watersheds of the United States Open
A recent paradigm shift from purely biophysical towards social-ecological assessment of watersheds has been proposed to understand, monitor, and manipulate the myriad interactions between human well-being and the ecosystem services that wa…
View article: Detecting spatial regimes in ecosystems
Detecting spatial regimes in ecosystems Open
Research on early warning indicators has generally focused on assessing temporal transitions with limited application of these methods to detecting spatial regimes. Traditional spatial boundary detection procedures that result in ecoregion…
View article: Using Fisher information to track stability in multivariate systems
Using Fisher information to track stability in multivariate systems Open
With the current proliferation of data, the proficient use of statistical and mining techniques offer substantial benefits to capture useful information from any dataset. As numerous approaches make use of information theory concepts, here…
View article: Developing a Salivary Antibody Multiplex Immunoassay to Measure Human Exposure to Environmental Pathogens
Developing a Salivary Antibody Multiplex Immunoassay to Measure Human Exposure to Environmental Pathogens Open
The etiology and impacts of human exposure to environmental pathogens are of major concern worldwide and, thus, the ability to assess exposure and infections using cost effective, high-throughput approaches would be indispensable. This man…
View article: Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem
Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem Open
Communities of organisms, from mammals to microorganisms, have discontinuous distributions of body size. This pattern of size structuring is a conservative trait of community organization and is a product of processes that occur at multipl…
View article: Evaluating Consumer Product Life Cycle Sustainability with Integrated Metrics: A Paper Towel Case Study
Evaluating Consumer Product Life Cycle Sustainability with Integrated Metrics: A Paper Towel Case Study Open
Integrated sustainability metrics provide an enriched set of information to inform decision-making. However, such approaches are rarely used to assess product supply chains. In this work, four integrated metrics—presented in terms of land,…
View article: Managing for resilience: an information theory‐based approach to assessing ecosystems
Managing for resilience: an information theory‐based approach to assessing ecosystems Open
Summary Ecosystems are complex and multivariate; hence, methods to assess the dynamics of ecosystems should have the capacity to evaluate multiple indicators simultaneously. Most research on identifying leading indicators of regime shifts …
View article: Appendix A. Table comparing hierarchy theory, panarchy theory, scale domains, and power laws.
Appendix A. Table comparing hierarchy theory, panarchy theory, scale domains, and power laws. Open
Table comparing hierarchy theory, panarchy theory, scale domains, and power laws.
View article: Towards a More User Friendly Technique for Predicting Photovoltaic Energy Output
Towards a More User Friendly Technique for Predicting Photovoltaic Energy Output Open
Several factors impact the power output from solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. Some are deterministic and controllable and others are uncontrollable (e.g., meteorological conditions), yet critical to performance. The objective of this paper…