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Stephen R. Carpenter
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 471
Citations - 124197
Stephen R. Carpenter is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zooplankton & Ecosystem. The author has an hindex of 131, co-authored 464 publications receiving 109624 citations. Previous affiliations of Stephen R. Carpenter include Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences & University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Persistence of net heterotrophy in lakes during nutrient addition and food web manipulations
TL;DR: Estimating in situ NEP using three independent approaches over a 4‐7 yr period in a series of small lakes in which food webs were manipulated and nutrient loadings were experimentally varied found community R is significantly subsidized by allochthonous sources of organic matter in these lakes.
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Economic valuation of freshwater ecosystem services in the united states: 1971-1997
TL;DR: A comprehensive synthesis of peer-reviewed economic data on surface freshwater ecosystems in the United States and examines major accomplishments and gaps in the literature is provided in this article, where the authors provide ecologists and resource managers with a sense of where the economic science of ecosystem valuation has come from and where it might go in the future.
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Adaptive Capacity and Traps
TL;DR: Adaptive capacity is the ability of a living system, such as a social-ecological system, to adjust responses to changing internal demands and external drivers as discussed by the authors, which is a frequent topic of study in the resilience literature.
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Social norms as solutions
Karine Nyborg,John M. Anderies,Astrid Dannenberg,Therese Lindahl,Caroline Schill,Maja Schlüter,W. Neil Adger,Kenneth J. Arrow,Scott Barrett,Stephen R. Carpenter,F. Stuart Chapin,Anne-Sophie Crépin,Gretchen C. Daily,Paul R. Ehrlich,Carl Folke,Wander Jager,Nils Kautsky,Simon A. Levin,Ole Jacob Madsen,Stephen Polasky,Marten Scheffer,Brian Walker,Elke U. Weber,James E. Wilen,Anastasios Xepapadeas,Aart de Zeeuw +25 more
TL;DR: This work discusses three crucial questions: Is a tipping point likely to exist, such that vicious cycles of socially damaging behavior can potentially be turned into virtuous ones?