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An eye-opening approach to developing and communicating integrated environmental assessments (Page 1)

An eye-opening approach to developing and communicating integrated environmental assessments

Dennison WC, Lookingbill TR, Carruthers TJB, Hawkey JM, and Carter SM ·
2007

Communication among managers, the public, and scientists is the key to successful ecosystem management; however, the varied perspectives and interests of these groups can make such communication difficult. One way to achieve effective communication is to develop a common knowledge base by combining syntheses of key scientific results with information-rich visual elements.

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Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary: Case study of a highly eutrophic coastal bay system (Page 1)

Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary: Case study of a highly eutrophic coastal bay system

Kennish MJ, Bricker SB, Dennison WC, Glibert PM, Livingston RJ, Moore KA, Noble RT, Paerl HW, Ramstack JM, Seitzinger S, Tomasko DA, and Valiela I ·
2007

The Barnegat Bay–Little Egg Harbor Estuary is classified here as a highly eutrophic estuary based on application of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment model. Because it is shallow, poorly flushed, and bordered by highly developed watershed areas, the estuary is particularly susceptible to the effects of nutrient loading.

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Building EDENs: The rise of environmentally distributed ecological networks (Page 1)

Building EDENs: The rise of environmentally distributed ecological networks

Craine JM, Battersby J, Elmore AJ, and Jones AW ·
2007

Environmentally distributed ecological networks (EDENs) are growing increasingly important in ecology, coordinating research in more disciplines and over larger areas than ever before, while supplanting post hoc syntheses of uncoordinated research. With the rise of multiple broadly focused, continental-scale EDENs, these networks will be directing an increasingly large proportion of resources in ecology, which warrants a review of their use.

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Detecting open vegetation in a forested landscape: pollen and remote sensing data from New England, USA (Page 1)

Detecting open vegetation in a forested landscape: pollen and remote sensing data from New England, USA

McLauchlan KK, Elmore AJ, Oswald WW, and Sugita S ·
2007

The proportional cover of forest and grassland vegetation, known as landscape openness, has been particularly difficult to reconstruct because of differences in pollen productivity and transport between the two vegetation types. To begin to calibrate landscape openness in eastern North America, we collected 2 1 samples of surface sediments front small ponds (less than 60 ha) in the Upper Connecticut River Valley of New England, USA.

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Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model (Page 1)

Global seagrass distribution and diversity: A bioregional model

Short F, Carruthers TJB, Dennison WC, and Waycott M ·
2007

Seagrasses, marine flowering plants, are widely distributed along temperate and tropical coastlines of the world. Seagrasses have key ecological roles in coastal ecosystems and can form extensive meadows supporting high biodiversity. The global species diversity of seagrasses is low (b60 species), but species can have ranges that extend for thousands of kilometers of coastline.

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Is there a risk associated with the insect repellent DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) commonly found in aquatic environments?

Costanzo SD, Watkinson AJ, Murby EJ, Kolpin DW, and Sandstrom MW ·
2007

DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) is the active ingredient of most commercial insect repellents. This compound has commonly been detected in aquatic water samples from around the world indicating that DEET is both mobile and persistent, despite earlier assumptions that DEET was unlikely to enter aquatic ecosystems. DEET's registration category does not require an ecological risk assessment, thus information on the ecological toxicity of DEET is sparse.

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Linking water quality to living resources in a mid-Atlantic lagoon system, USA (Page 1)

Linking water quality to living resources in a mid-Atlantic lagoon system, USA

Wazniak CE, Hall MR, Carruthers TJB, Sturgis B, Dennison WC, and Orth RJ ·
2007

The mid-Atlantic coastal bays are shallow coastal lagoons, separated from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier sand islands with oceanic exchanges restricted to narrow inlets. The relatively poor flushing of these lagoon systems makes them susceptible to eutrophication resulting from anthropogenic nutrient loadings. An intensive water quality and seagrass monitoring program was initiated to track ecological changes in the Maryland and Virginia coastal bays.

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Novel method for rapid assessment of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli isolates from environmental waters by use of a modified chromogenic agar

Watkinson AJ, Micalizzi GR, Bates JR, and Costanzo SD ·
2007

We validated a novel method for screening Escherichia coli resistance to antibiotics in environmental samples using modified Difco MI agar (Becton Dickinson) impregnated with selected antibiotics (tetracycline, ampicillin, cephalexin, and sulfamethoxazole), termed MI-R. This method combines an existing rapid assessment technique for E.

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Occurrence and seasonal variations of algal toxins in water, phytoplankton and shellfish from North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia

Takahashi E, Yu Q, Eaglesham G, Connell DW, McBroom J, Costanzo SD, and Shaw GR ·
2007

A number of marine microalgae are known to produce toxins that can accumulate in shellfish and when eaten, lead to toxic and potentially fatal reactions in humans. This paper reports on the occurrence and seasonal variations of algal toxins in the waters, phytoplankton and shellfish of Southeast Queensland, Australia.

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Removal of antibiotics in conventional and advanced wastewater treatment: Implications for environmental discharge and wastewater recycling

Watkinson AJ, Murby EJ, and Costanzo SD ·
2007

Removal of 28 human and veterinary antibiotics was assessed in a conventional (activated sludge) and advanced (microfiltration/reverse osmosis) wastewater treatment plant (VJVvrTP) in Brisbane, Australia. The dominant antibiotics detected in wastewater influents were cephalexin (med. 4.6 gL(,)(-1) freq. 100%), ciprofloxacin (med. 3.8 [mu]gL(-1) freq. 100%), cefaclor (med. 0.5 [mu]gL(-1), freq. 100%), sulphamethoxazole (med. 0.36 [mu]gL(-1), freq. 100%) and trimethoprim (med.

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