Erica A. Howard

TL;DR: Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity.

TL;DR: The Amazon Basin is one of the world's most important bioregions, harboring a rich array of plant and animal species and offering a wealth of goods and services to society as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the impacts of new river geomorphic and flow parameterizations on the simulated surface waters dynamics of the Amazon River basin, and present three major improvements to a hydrologic model: (1) the river flow velocity equation is expanded to be dependent on river sinuosity and friction in addition to gradient forces; (2) equations defining the morphological characteristics of the river, such as river height, width and bank full volume, are derived from 31 622 measurements of river morphology and applied within the model; and (3) 1 km resolution

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured total ecosystem C content (TEC), above-, and belowground net primary productivity (NPP) for each stand, and calculated NEP values from the changes in TEC among stands.