Meredith K. Steele

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how household and neighborhood characteristics correlate with land-management practices, land-cover composition, and landscape structure and ecosystem functions at local, regional, and continental scales.

TL;DR: An analytical framework for testing the multiscale homogenization hypothesis is introduced, and the framework to the case of residential lawn care is applied, suggesting that US lawn care behaviors are more differentiated in practice than in theory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report findings of a cross-site survey of homeowners in six US cities to examine how residents subjectively value various ecosystem services, explore distinctive dimensions of those values, and test the urban homogenization hypothesis that urbanization leads to similarities in the social-ecological dynamics across cities in diverse biomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantified dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) concentrations in urban and rural watersheds located in central Texas, USA between 2007 and 2008, and found that the proportion of urban land use ranged from 6 to 100% in 12 study watersheds which included nine watersheds without waste water treatment plants (WWTP) and three watersheds sampled downstream of a WWTP.