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List of works by Emily S. Bernhardt

A century of change: Reconstructing the biogeochemical history of Hubbard Brook

scientific article published in 2021

A multiyear synthesis of soil respiration responses to elevated atmospheric CO2from four forest FACE experiments

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Accelerated soil nitrogen cycling in response to a whole ecosystem acid rain mitigation experiment

scientific article published in February 2024

Acid rain mitigation experiment shifts a forested watershed from a net sink to a net source of nitrogen.

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

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

scientific article published on 28 January 2022

An ecological perspective on nanomaterial impacts in the environment

scientific article

Antimicrobial effects of commercial silver nanoparticles are attenuated in natural streamwater and sediment

scientific article

Are nitrogen and carbon cycle processes impacted by common stream antibiotics? A comparative assessment of single vs. mixture exposures

scientific article published in 2022

Artificial lake expansion amplifies mercury pollution from gold mining

scientific article published on 27 November 2020

Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Beyond Selenium: Coal Combustion Residuals Lead to Multielement Enrichment in Receiving Lake Food Webs

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Biogeochemical regime shifts in coastal landscapes: the contrasting effects of saltwater incursion and agricultural pollution on greenhouse gas emissions from a freshwater wetland

article by Ashley M. Helton et al published 20 May 2014 in Biogeochemistry

Biogeochemical responses of two forest streams to a 2-month calcium addition

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Buffering an Acidic Stream in New Hampshire with a Silicate Mineral

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Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution?

scientific article

Characterizing and classifying urban watersheds with compositional and structural attributes

scientific article

Chronic Engineered Nanoparticle Additions Alter Insect Emergence and Result in Metal Flux from Aquatic Ecosystems into Riparian Food Webs

scientific article published on 18 May 2023

Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Coastal Forested Wetlands Throughout the North American Coastal Plain

scientific article

Coastal freshwater wetlands squeezed between migrating salt marshes and working lands

scientific article published in 2022

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

scientific article published in 2021

Constraint-based simulation of multiple interactive elemental cycles in biogeochemical systems

scientific article published in 2019

Contaminant Subsidies to Riparian Food Webs in Appalachian Streams Impacted by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Control Points in Ecosystems: Moving Beyond the Hot Spot Hot Moment Concept

Controls on periphyton biomass in heterotrophic streams

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Copper and gold nanoparticles increase nutrient excretion rates of primary consumers

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Correction to Selenium Ecotoxicology in Freshwater Lakes Receiving Coal Combustion Residual Effluents: A North Carolina Example

scientific article published on 28 July 2017

Creating a More Perennial Problem? Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Enhances and Sustains Saline Baseflows of Appalachian Watersheds.

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Cumulative impacts of mountaintop mining on an Appalachian watershed

scientific article

Decreasing uncertainties in assessing environmental exposure, risk, and ecological implications of nanomaterials

scientific article published in September 2009

Deep Impact: Effects of Mountaintop Mining on Surface Topography, Bedrock Structure, and Downstream Waters

scientific article published on 22 January 2016

Designer Ecosystems: Incorporating Design Approaches into Applied Ecology

Development and Application of a Simulation Environment (NEO) for Integrating Empirical and Computational Investigations of System-Level Complexity

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Differential Reactivity of Copper- and Gold-Based Nanomaterials Controls Their Seasonal Biogeochemical Cycling and Fate in a Freshwater Wetland Mesocosm

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Dissolved organic carbon lability increases with water residence time in the alluvial aquifer of a river floodplain ecosystem

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Distinguishing dynamics of dissolved organic matter components in a forested stream using kinetic enrichments

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Do two wrongs make a right? Persistent uncertainties regarding environmental selenium-mercury interactions

scientific article published on 07 July 2020

Dosing, Not the Dose: Comparing Chronic and Pulsed Silver Nanoparticle Exposures

scientific article published on 21 August 2018

Downstream Dissipation of Storm Flow Heat Pulses: A Case Study and its Landscape-Level Implications

article by Kayleigh A. Somers et al published 10 January 2016 in Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Drought and saltwater incursion synergistically reduce dissolved organic carbon export from coastal freshwater wetlands

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Drought-induced saltwater incursion leads to increased wetland nitrogen export

scientific article

Ecological Science and Sustainability for the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2005

Ecological science and sustainability for the 21st century

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Ecological science and sustainability for the 21st century

scientific article published in 1970

Ecology. Cleaner lakes are dirtier lakes

scientific article

Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet

scientific article

Effects of mountaintop removal coal mining on the diversity and secondary productivity of Appalachian rivers

scholarly article by Kristofor A. Voss published in March 2017

Effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on germination and early growth of eleven wetland plants

scientific article

Effects of urbanization and urban stream restoration on the physical and biological structure of stream ecosystems

scientific article

Elevated CO2 increases root exudation from loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) seedlings as an N-mediated response

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Emergent productivity regimes of river networks

scholarly article

Emerging contaminant or an old toxin in disguise? Silver nanoparticle impacts on ecosystems

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Engineered nanoparticles interact with nutrients to intensify eutrophication in a wetland ecosystem experiment

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities

scientific article

Environmental occurrences, behavior, fate, and ecological effects of nanomaterials: an introduction to the special series

scientific article published in November 2010

Estimating above-ground carbon biomass in a newly restored coastal plain wetland using remote sensing.

scientific article

Evaluating River Restoration1

scientific article published in 2011

Evaluating Stream Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through Practitioner Interviews

scientific article published in 2007

Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Examining the coupling of carbon and nitrogen cycles in Appalachian streams: the role of dissolved organic nitrogen.

scientific article published in March 2011

Fertilizer legacies meet saltwater incursion: challenges and constraints for coastal plain wetland restoration

Floodplain biogeochemical mosaics: A multidimensional view of alluvial soils

scientific article

Forest age, wood and nutrient dynamics in headwater streams of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH

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From a line in the sand to a landscape of decisions: a hierarchical diversity decision framework for estimating and communicating biodiversity loss along anthropogenic gradients

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Give and Take: A Watershed Acid Rain Mitigation Experiment Increases Baseflow Nitrogen Retention but Increases Stormflow Nitrogen Export

Give long-term datasets World Heritage status

scientific article published on 16 December 2022

Global change: The nitrogen cycle and rivers

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Gold nanoparticle biodissolution by a freshwater macrophyte and its associated microbiome

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Greenhouse gas fluxes in southeastern U.S. coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land uses

scientific article

Harmonizing across environmental nanomaterial testing media for increased comparability of nanomaterial datasets

How many mountains can we mine? Assessing the regional degradation of Central Appalachian rivers by surface coal mining

scientific article

Hydro-Climatological Influences on Long-Term Dissolved Organic Carbon in a Mountain Stream of the Southeastern United States

scientific article

Hydroecology and river restoration: Ripe for research and synthesis

Hydrologic Context Alters Greenhouse Gas Feedbacks of Coastal Wetland Salinization

scientific article published in 2019

Hypoxia dynamics and spatial distribution in a low gradient river

scientific article

Impacts of dreissenid mussel invasions on chlorophyll and total phosphorus in 25 lakes in the USA

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Importance of a nanoscience approach in the understanding of major aqueous contamination scenarios: case study from a recent coal ash spill

scientific article

In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient

scientific article published on 30 June 2019

In-stream uptake dampens effects of major forest disturbance on watershed nitrogen export

scientific article published on 25 July 2003

Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO₂.

scientific article published on 9 February 2011

Invasive species' leaf traits and dissimilarity from natives shape their impact on nitrogen cycling: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Iron clad wetlands: Soil iron-sulfur buffering determines coastal wetland response to salt water incursion

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Lethal impacts of selenium counterbalance the potential reduction in mercury bioaccumulation for freshwater organisms

Light and flow regimes regulate the metabolism of rivers

scientific article

Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview

scientific article

Long-term data reveal patterns and controls on stream water chemistry in a forested stream: Walker Branch, Tennessee

article by Brian D. Lutz et al published August 2012 in Ecological Monographs

Long-term transformation and fate of manufactured ag nanoparticles in a simulated large scale freshwater emergent wetland

scientific article published on 30 April 2012

Low concentrations of silver nanoparticles in biosolids cause adverse ecosystem responses under realistic field scenario

scientific article

Mapping the yearly extent of surface coal mining in Central Appalachia using Landsat and Google Earth Engine

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Mechanisms driving the seasonality of catchment scale nitrate export: Evidence for riparian ecohydrologic controls

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Mercury and selenium loading in mountaintop mining impacted alkaline streams and riparian food webs

scientific article published in 2020

Metabolic rhythms in flowing waters: An approach for classifying river productivity regimes

scientific article published on 3 March 2019

Microchemical analysis of selenium in otoliths of two West Virginia fishes captured near mountaintop removal coal mining operations

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

More than the ions: the effects of silver nanoparticles on Lolium multiflorum.

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Mountaintop mining legacies constrain ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical recovery trajectories

scientific article

New approach for capturing soluble root exudates in forest soils

article by Richard P. Phillips et al published December 2008 in Functional Ecology

Nitrate in watersheds: Straight from soils to streams?

Nitrogen Dynamics in Ice Storm-Damaged Forest Ecosystems: Implications for Nitrogen Limitation Theory

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Not all pavements lead to streams: variation in impervious surface connectivity affects urban stream ecosystems

scholarly article

Outdoor urban nanomaterials: The emergence of a new, integrated, and critical field of study

scientific article published on 2 April 2016

Patterns and Drivers of Dissolved Gas Concentrations and Fluxes Along a Low Gradient Stream

scientific article published in 2022

Perspective: The challenge of ecologically sustainable water management

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Phosphorus export from a restored wetland ecosystem in response to natural and experimental hydrologic fluctuations

scholarly article

Phytotoxicity of soluble graphitic nanofibers to model plant species

scientific article published on 6 May 2016

Plant and Microbial Responses to Repeated Cu(OH)2 Nanopesticide Exposures Under Different Fertilization Levels in an Agro-Ecosystem.

scientific article

Pulling apart the urbanization axis: patterns of physiochemical degradation and biological response across stream ecosystems

Rare microbial taxa emerge when communities collide: freshwater and marine microbiome responses to experimental mixing

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Reducing Environmental Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles through Shape Control

scientific article

Relating nutrient uptake with transient storage in forested mountain streams

scientific article published on 30 June 2010

Restored forested wetland surprisingly resistant to experimental salinization

Restoring Rivers One Reach at a Time: Results from a Survey of U.S. River Restoration Practitioners

scientific article published in 2007

Restoring Rivers and Streams

Restoring biodiversity and ecosystem function: will an integrated approach improve results?

Restoring streams in an urbanizing world

River Restoration in the Twenty-First Century: Data and Experiential Knowledge to Inform Future Efforts

article by Margaret A. Palmer et al published September 2007 in Restoration Ecology

River and Riparian Restoration in the Southwest: Results of the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Project

scientific article published in 2007

River ecosystem metabolism and carbon biogeochemistry in a changing world

scientific article published in 2023

River restoration, habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity: a failure of theory or practice?

River restoration: the fuzzy logic of repairing reaches to reverse catchment scale degradation

scientific article

Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO2

scientific article published on 08 July 2012

Salinity effects on greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils are contingent upon hydrologic setting: a microcosm experiment

Salinity thresholds for understory plants in coastal wetlands

scientific article published in 2021

Salt effects on carbon mineralization in southeastern coastal wetland soils of the United States

scholarly article

Saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatens U.S. rural coastal landscapes and communities

scientific article published in 2024

Saltwater intrusion in context: soil factors regulate impacts of salinity on soil carbon cycling

scientific article published in 2021

Science and regulation. Mountaintop mining consequences.

scientific article

Scoured or suffocated: Urban stream ecosystems oscillate between hydrologic and dissolved oxygen extremes

scientific article published on 3 December 2018

Sediment chemistry of urban stormwater ponds and controls on denitrification

scientific article published in 2018

Selenium Ecotoxicology in Freshwater Lakes Receiving Coal Combustion Residual Effluents: A North Carolina Example.

scientific article

Size-Based Differential Transport, Uptake, and Mass Distribution of Ceria (CeO2) Nanoparticles in Wetland Mesocosms

scientific article published on 16 August 2018

Soil carbon losses due to higher pH offset vegetation gains due to calcium enrichment in an acid mitigation experiment

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Standard metrics for characterizing episodic salinization in freshwater systems

Stoichiometry and daily rhythms: experimental evidence shows nutrient limitation decouples N uptake from photosynthesis

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Stream Restoration Databases and Case Studies: A Guide to Information Resources and Their Utility in Advancing the Science and Practice of Restoration

scientific article published in 2006

Stream Restoration Practices in the Southeastern United States

scholarly article by Elizabeth B. Sudduth et al published September 2007 in Restoration Ecology

Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads

scientific article published in 2008

Streams in the urban heat island: spatial and temporal variability in temperature

article by Kayleigh A. Somers et al published March 2013 in Freshwater Science

Subsidized or stressed? Shifts in freshwater benthic microbial metagenomics along a gradient of alkaline coal mine drainage

scholarly article

Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina’s Coastal Plain?

scientific article published on 6 April 2019

Sulfidation of silver nanoparticles: natural antidote to their toxicity

scientific article

Synthesizing U.S. river restoration efforts

scientific article

Synthetic chemicals as agents of global change

article by Emily S. Bernhardt et al published 24 January 2017 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Testing the field of dreams hypothesis: functional responses to urbanization and restoration in stream ecosystems

scientific article

The Invisible Flood: The Chemistry, Ecology, and Social Implications of Coastal Saltwater Intrusion

scientific article published in May 2019

The Nonpoint Sources and Transport of Baseflow Nitrogen Loading Across a Developed Rural‐Urban Gradient

scientific article published in July 2022

The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration.

scientific article

The Water Quality Consequences of Restoring Wetland Hydrology to a Large Agricultural Watershed in the Southeastern Coastal Plain

scholarly article by Marcelo Ardon et al published 8 September 2010 in Ecosystems

The ecology and economics of restoration: when, what, where, and how to restore ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians

scientific article

The environmental price tag on a ton of mountaintop removal coal

scientific article

The metabolic regimes of 356 rivers in the United States

scholarly article by Alison P. Appling et al published 11 December 2018 in Scientific Data

Thermodynamic constraints on the utility of ecological stoichiometry for explaining global biogeochemical patterns

scientific article

Thinking outside the channel: modeling nitrogen cycling in networked river ecosystems

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Toxicity Reduction of Polymer-Stabilized Silver Nanoparticles by Sunlight

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Twenty-six key research questions in urban stream ecology: an assessment of the state of the science

Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit

scientific article published on 24 August 2018

Understanding, managing, and minimizing urban impacts on surface water nitrogen loading

scientific article published on January 2008

Urban stream denitrifier communities are linked to lower functional resistance to multiple stressors associated with urbanization

Using 15N tracers to estimate N2O and N2 emissions from nitrification and denitrification in coastal plain wetlands under contrasting land-uses

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Using environmental variables and soil processes to forecast denitrification potential and nitrous oxide fluxes in coastal plain wetlands across different land uses

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in 2021

Watershed urban development controls on urban streamwater chemistry variability

scientific article published in June 2019

Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities

scientific article

What is a stream?

Whole-system Estimates of Nitrification and Nitrate Uptake in Streams of the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

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