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- Multiple plant-community traits improve predictions of later-stage outcomes of restoration drill seedings: Implications for metrics of success, 2024, Ecological Indicators (167) -
- Estimating traffic volume and road age in Wyoming to inform resource management planning: An application with wildlife-vehicle collisions, 2024, Ecological Indicators (116) -
- Evaluation of metrics and thresholds for use in national-scale river harmful algal bloom assessments, 2024, Ecological Indicators (162) -
- Passive acoustic monitoring and convolutional neural networks facilitate high-resolution and broadscale monitoring of a threatened species, 2024, Ecological Indicators (162) -
- Establishing quantitative benchmarks for soil erosion and ecological monitoring, assessment, and management, 2024, Ecological Indicators (159) -
- Integrating monitoring and modeling information to develop an indicator of watershed progress toward nutrient reduction goals, 2024, Ecological Indicators (158) -
- Identifying indicators of polar bear population status, 2024, Ecological Indicators (159) -
- A new method for bioassessment of ecosystems with complex communities and environmental gradients, 2024, Ecological Indicators (158) -
- Incremental evolution of modeling a prognosis for polar bears in a rapidly changing Arctic, 2023, Ecological Indicators (156) -
- Satellite-derived plant cover maps vary in performance depending on version and product, 2023, Ecological Indicators (155) -
- Cryptic tolerant fish species and their potential effect on index of biotic integrity (IBI) scores, 2023, Ecological Indicators (154) -
- Using taxa-based approaches to delineate stream macroinvertebrate assemblage responses to stressor gradients in modified alluvial agroecosystems, 2023, Ecological Indicators (153) -
- Intra-specific variation in responses to habitat restoration: Could artificial reefs increase spatiotemporal segregation between migratory phenotypes of lake sturgeon?, 2023, Ecological Indicators (148) -
- A targeted annual warning system developed for the conservation of a sagebrush indicator species, 2023, Ecological Indicators (148) -
- Where forest may not return in the western United States, 2023, Ecological Indicators (146) -
- Long-term monitoring in transition: Resolving spatial mismatch and integrating multistate occupancy data, 2023, Ecological Indicators (146) -
- Natural resource system size can be used for managing recreational use, 2022, Ecological Indicators (145) -
- Projected stream fish community risk to climate impacts in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, 2022, Ecological Indicators (144) -
- Hydrologic and environmental thresholds in stream fish assemblage structure across flow regimes, 2022, Ecological Indicators (144) -
- Evaluating acid-aluminum stress in streams of the Northeastern U.S. at watershed, fish community and physiological scales, 2022, Ecological Indicators (144) -
- Asking nicely: Best practices for requesting data, 2022, Ecological Indicators (70) -
- How do accuracy and model agreement vary with versioning, scale, and landscape heterogeneity for satellite-derived vegetation maps in sagebrush steppe?, 2022, Ecological Indicators (139) -
- A water quality barometer for Chesapeake Bay: Assessing spatial and temporal patterns using long-term monitoring data, 2022, Ecological Indicators (140) -
- Satellites quantify the spatial extent of cyanobacterial blooms across the United States at multiple scales, 2022, Ecological Indicators (140) -
- Importance of local weather and environmental gradients on demography of a broadly distributed temperate frog, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- Looking ahead, guided by the past: The role of U.S. national parks in amphibian research and conservation, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- A biological condition gradient for coral reefs in the US Caribbean Territories: Part I. Coral narrative rules, 2022, Ecological Indicators (138) -
- Power analysis for detecting the effects of best management practices on reducing nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes to the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- Managing multiple species with conflicting needs in the Greater Everglades, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- The role of monitoring and research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in framing our understanding of the effects of disease on amphibians, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- Tracking spatial regimes in animal communities: Implications for resilience-based management, 2022, Ecological Indicators (136) -
- A biological condition gradient for Caribbean coral reefs: Part II. Numeric rules using sessile benthic organisms, 2022, Ecological Indicators (135) -
- Multi-species amphibian monitoring across a protected landscape: Critical reflections on 15 years of wetland monitoring in Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks, 2022, Ecological Indicators (135) -
- A web-based tool for assessing the condition of benthic diatom assemblages in streams and rivers of the conterminous United States, 2022, Ecological Indicators (135) -
- Using fish community and population indicators to assess the biological condition of streams and rivers of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA, 2022, Ecological Indicators (134) -
- Projected impact of sea-level rise and urbanization on mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) habitat along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas through 2100, 2022, Ecological Indicators (132) -
- Ecological potential fractional component cover based on Long-Term satellite observations across the western United States, 2021, Ecological Indicators (133) -
- Effects of sample gear on estuarine nekton assemblage assessments and food web model simulations, 2021, Ecological Indicators (133) -
- Hierarchical models improve the use of alligator abundance as an indicator, 2021, Ecological Indicators (133) -
- Are drought indices and climate data good indicators of ecologically relevant soil moisture dynamics in drylands?, 2021, Ecological Indicators (133) -
- Integrating regional and local monitoring data and assessment tools to evaluate habitat conditions and inform river restoration, 2021, Ecological Indicators
- Trade-offs in initial and long-term handling efficiency of PIT-tag and photographic identification methods, 2021, Ecological Indicators (130) -
- Amphibian population responses to mitigation: Relative importance of wetland age and design, 2021, Ecological Indicators (131) -
- Post-white-nose syndrome passive acoustic sampling effort for determining bat species occupancy within the mid-Atlantic region, 2021, Ecological Indicators (125) -
- Satellite remote sensing to assess cyanobacterial bloom frequency across the United States at multiple spatial scales, 2021, Ecological Indicators (128) -
- Monitoring long-term riparian vegetation trends to inform local habitat management in a mountainous environment, 2021, Ecological Indicators (127) -
- Comparisons among three diet analyses demonstrate multiple patterns in the estimated adult diet of a freshwater piscivore, Salvelinus namaycush, 2021, Ecological Indicators (127) -
- Long-term multidecadal data from a prairie-pothole wetland complex reveal controls on aquatic-macroinvertebrate communities, 2021, Ecological Indicators (126) -
- Assessment of sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) diet using DNA metabarcoding of feces, 2021, Ecological Indicators (125) -
- Mapping climate change vulnerability of aquatic-riparian ecosystems using decision-relevant indicators, 2021, Ecological Indicators (125) -
- Does taxonomic and numerical resolution affect the assessment of invertebrate community structure in New World freshwater wetlands?, 2021, Ecological Indicators (125) -
- Exploring relationships among stream health, human well-being, and demographics in Virginia, USA, 2021, Ecological Indicators (121) -
- Heed the data gap: Guidelines for using incomplete datasets in annual stream temperature analyses, 2021, Ecological Indicators (122) -
- Seasonal periphyton response to low-level nutrient exposure in a least disturbed mountain stream, the Buffalo River, Arkansas, 2021, Ecological Indicators (121) -
- Impacts of small dams on stream temperature, 2021, Ecological Indicators (120) -
- Using remote sensing products to predict recovery of vegetation across space and time following energy development, 2020, Ecological Indicators (110) -
- Estimating nitrogen removal services of eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) in Mobile Bay, Alabama, 2020, Ecological Indicators (117) -
- Characterizing benthic macroinvertebrate and algal biological condition gradient models for California wadeable Streams, USA, 2020, Ecological Indicators (117) -
- Climate-induced abrupt shifts in structural states trigger delayed transitions in functional states, 2020, Ecological Indicators (115) -
- Identifying candidate reference reaches to assess the physical and biological integrity of wadeable streams in different ecoregions and among stream sizes, 2020, Ecological Indicators (111) -
- Acoustic space occupancy: Combining ecoacoustics and lidar to model biodiversity variation and detection bias across heterogeneous landscapes, 2020, Ecological Indicators (113) -
- Assessment of multi-stressors on compositional turnover of diatom, invertebrate and fish assemblages along an urban gradient in Pacific Northwest streams (USA), 2020, Ecological Indicators (112) -
- Identification of management thresholds of urban development in support of aquatic biodiversity conservation, 2020, Ecological Indicators (112) -
- Ecosystem-specific growth responses to climate pattern by a temperate freshwater fish, 2020, Ecological Indicators (112) -
- The power, potential, and pitfalls of open access biodiversity data in range size assessments: Lessons from the fishes, 2019, Ecological Indicators (110) -
- Statistical power of dynamic occupancy models to identify temporal change: Informing the North American Bat Monitoring Program, 2019, Ecological Indicators (105) -
- Guidance for assessing interregional ecoystem service flows, 2019, Ecological Indicators (105) -
- Resilience of benthic macroinvertebrates to extreme floods in a Catskill Mountain river, New York, USA: Implications for water quality monitoring and assessment, 2019, Ecological Indicators (104) -
- Temporal variability in stream fish assemblage metrics and implications for long-term monitoring, 2019, Ecological Indicators (101) -
- Efficacy of eDNA as an early detection indicator for Burmese pythons in the ARM Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, 2019, Ecological Indicators (102) -
- Influence of salinity on relative density of American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) in Everglades National Park: Implications for restoration of Everglades ecosystems, 2019, Ecological Indicators (102) -
- Applying concepts of general resilience to large river ecosystems: A case study from the Upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers, 2019, Ecological Indicators (101) -
- Taxonomic harmonization may reveal a stronger association between diatom assemblages and total phosphorus in large datasets, 2019, Ecological Indicators (102) -
- A strategy for defining the reference for land health and degradation assessments, 2019, Ecological Indicators (97) -
- Evidence for interactions among environmental stressors in the Laurentian Great Lakes, 2019, Ecological Indicators (101) -
- Using remote sensing to quantify ecosystem site potential community structure and deviation in the Great Basin, United States, 2019, Ecological Indicators (96) - 1
- Multi-element fingerprinting of waters to evaluate connectivity among depressional wetlands, 2019, Ecological Indicators (97) -
- Impacts of temporal revisit designs on the power to detect trend with a linear mixed model: An application to long-term monitoring of Sierra Nevada lakes, 2018, Ecological Indicators (93) -
- Evaluating anthropogenic landscape alterations as wildlife hazards, with wind farms as an example, 2018, Ecological Indicators (34) - 1
- The utility of point count surveys to predict wildlife interactions with wind energy facilities: An example focused on golden eagles, 2018, Ecological Indicators (88) -
- Remote sensing of tamarisk beetle (Diorhabda carinulata) impacts along 412 km of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA, 2018, Ecological Indicators (89) -
- Hierarchical modeling assessment of the influence of watershed stressors on fish and invertebrate species in Gulf of Mexico estuaries, 2018, Ecological Indicators (90) -
- Vegetation responses to sagebrush-reduction treatments measured by satellites, 2018, Ecological Indicators (87) -
- Relationships between indicators of acid-base chemistry and fish assemblages in streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 2018, Ecological Indicators (88) -
- Assessing the influence of multiple stressors on stream diatom metrics in the upper Midwest, USA, 2018, Ecological Indicators (85) -
- Effects of watershed and in-stream liming on macroinvertebrate communities in acidified tributaries to an Adirondack lake, 2018, Ecological Indicators (85) - February 2018
- Estimating vegetation biomass and cover across large plots in shrub and grass dominated drylands using terrestrial lidar and machine learning, 2018, Ecological Indicators (84) -
- Variation in fish mercury concentrations in streams of the Adirondack region, New York: A simplified screening approach using chemical metrics, 2018, Ecological Indicators (84) -
- Regionalizing indicators for marine ecosystems: Bering Sea–Aleutian Island seabirds, climate, and competitors, 2017, Ecological Indicators (78) -
- Satellite monitoring of cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom frequency in recreational waters and drinking water sources, 2017, Ecological Indicators (80) -
- Trace element contamination in feather and tissue samples from Anna’s hummingbirds, 2017, Ecological Indicators (80) -
- Climate legacy and lag effects on dryland plant communities in the southwestern U.S., 2017, Ecological Indicators (74) -
- Mercury contamination and stable isotopes reveal variability in foraging ecology of generalist California gulls, 2017, Ecological Indicators (74) -
- Estimating linear temporal trends from aggregated environmental monitoring data, 2017, Ecological Indicators (74) -
- Selecting focal species as surrogates for imperiled species using relative sensitivities derived from occupancy analysis, 2017, Ecological Indicators (73) -
- Toward an integrated understanding of perceived biodiversity values and environmental conditions in a national park, 2016, Ecological Indicators (72) -
- Development and assessment of indices to determine stream fish vulnerability to climate change and habitat alteration, 2016, Ecological Indicators (67) -
- A management-oriented framework for selecting metrics used to assess habitat- and path-specific quality in spatially structured populations, 2016, Ecological Indicators (69) -
- Fluctuating water depths affect American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) body condition in the Everglades, Florida, USA, 2016, Ecological Indicators (67) -
- Mapping technological and biophysical capacities of watersheds to regulate floods, 2016, Ecological Indicators (61) - 2
- Moss and vascular plant indices in Ohio wetlands have similar environmental predictors, 2016, Ecological Indicators (62) -
- Mosses in Ohio wetlands respond to indices of disturbance and vascular plant integrity, 2016, Ecological Indicators (63) -
- Structure and spatial patterns of macrobenthic community in Tai Lake, a large shallow lake, China, 2016, Ecological Indicators (61) - 2
- Flexible risk metrics for identifying and monitoring conservation-priority species, 2016, Ecological Indicators (61) - 2
- Detecting significant change in stream benthic macroinvertebrate communities in wilderness areas, 2016, Ecological Indicators (60) -
- Using satellite vegetation and compound topographic indices to map highly erodible cropland buffers for cellulosic biofuel crop developments in eastern Nebraska, USA, 2016, Ecological Indicators (60) -
- Forecasting sagebrush ecosystem components and greater sage-grouse habitat for 2050: learning from past climate patterns and Landsat imagery to predict the future, 2015, Ecological Indicators (55) -
- Wetland habitat disturbance best predicts metrics of an amphibian index of biotic integrity, 2015, Ecological Indicators (56) -
- Empirical evaluation of the conceptual model underpinning a regional aquatic long-term monitoring program using causal modelling, 2015, Ecological Indicators (50) -
- Phenology and climate relationships in aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest and woodland communities of southwestern Colorado, 2015, Ecological Indicators (48) -
- Estimating switchgrass productivity in the Great Plains using satellite vegetation index and site environmental variables, 2015, Ecological Indicators (48) -
- A Candidate Vegetation Index of Biological Integrity Based on Species Dominance and Habitat Fidelity, 2015, Ecological Indicators (50) -
- A multi-indicator framework for mapping cultural ecosystem services: The case of freshwater recreational fishing, 2014, Ecological Indicators (45) -
- Ground level environmental protein concentrations in various ecuadorian environments: potential uses of aerosolized protein for ecological research, 2014, Ecological Indicators (48) -
- Bird migration and avian influenza: a comparison of hydrogen stable isotopes and satellite tracking methods, 2014, Ecological Indicators (45) -
- Integrated conceptual ecological model and habitat indices for the southwest Florida coastal wetlands, 2014, Ecological Indicators (44) -
- Interpretation of high-resolution imagery for detecting vegetation cover composition change after fuels reduction treatments in woodlands, 2014, Ecological Indicators (45) -
- Methodological developments in US state-level Genuine Progress Indicators: toward GPI 2.0, 2014, Ecological Indicators (45) -
- Evaluating the efficiency of environmental monitoring programs, 2014, Ecological Indicators (39) -
- A comparison of survey methods to evaluate macrophyte index of biotic integrity performance in Minnesota lakes, 2014, Ecological Indicators (36) -
- An application of Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) to three national forests in Colorado and Wyoming, 2014, Ecological Indicators (36) -
- Influence of management and precipitation on carbon fluxes in greatplains grasslands, 2013, Ecological Indicators (34) -
- Comparison of bird community indices for riparian restoration planning and monitoring, 2013, Ecological Indicators (34) -
- Phenology-based, remote sensing of post-burn disturbance windows in rangelands, 2013, Ecological Indicators (30) -
- Investigating the effects of point source and nonpoint source pollution on the water quality of the East River (Dongjiang) in South China, 2013, Ecological Indicators (32) -
- A causal examination of the effects of confounding factors on multimetric indices, 2013, Ecological Indicators (29) -
- Mapping grassland productivity with 250-m eMODIS NDVI and SSURGO database over the Greater Platte River Basin, USA, 2013, Ecological Indicators (24) -
- NDVI saturation adjustment: a new approach for improving cropland performance estimates in the Greater Platte River Basin, USA, 2013, Ecological Indicators (30) -
- Disturbance metrics predict a wetland Vegetation Index of Biotic Integrity, 2013, Ecological Indicators (24) -
- An algorithmic and information-theoretic approach to multimetric index construction, 2013, Ecological Indicators (26) -
- Predicted macroinvertebrate response to water diversion from a montane stream using two-dimensional hydrodynamic models and zero flow approximation, 2013, Ecological Indicators (28) -
- Temporal changes in aquatic-invertebrate and fish assemblages in streams of the north-central and northeastern U.S., 2012, Ecological Indicators (18) -
- The effects of drought and disturbance on the growth and developmental instability of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.), 2012, Ecological Indicators (20) -
- Use of alligator hole abundance and occupancy rate as indicators for restoration of a human-altered wetland, 2012, Ecological Indicators (23) -
- Using assemblage data in ecological indicators: A comparison and evaluation of commonly available statistical tools, 2012, Ecological Indicators (13) - 1
- Spatial patterns of aquatic habitat richness in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain, USA, 2012, Ecological Indicators (13) - 1
- Development and assessment of a landscape-scale ecological threat index for the Lower Colorado River Basin, 2011, Ecological Indicators (11) - 2
- Estimating aboveground forest biomass carbon and fire consumption in the U.S. Utah High Plateaus using data from the Forest Inventory and Analysis program, Landsat, and LANDFIRE, 2011, Ecological Indicators (11) - 1
- The Index of Biological Integrity and the bootstrap revisited: an example from Minnesota streams, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 2
- A comparison of algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish assemblage indices for assessing low-level nutrient enrichment in wadeable Ozark streams, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 3
- Quantifying human disturbance in watersheds: Variable selection and performance of a GIS-based disturbance index for predicting the biological condition of perennial streams, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 2
- The impact of rare taxa on a fish index of biotic integrity, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 4
- Comparison of watershed disturbance predictive models for stream benthic macroinvertebrates for three distinct ecoregions in western US, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 6
- Development of a macrophyte-based index of biotic integrity for Minnesota lakes, 2010, Ecological Indicators (10) - 5
- Alligators and crocodiles as indicators for restoration of Everglades ecosystems, 2009, Ecological Indicators (9) - 6 SUPPL.
- Species richness, equitability, and abundance of ants in disturbed landscapes, 2009, Ecological Indicators (9) - 5
- Impacts of acidification on macroinvertebrate communities in streams of the western Adirondack Mountains, New York, USA, 2009, Ecological Indicators (9) - 2
- Pink shrimp as an indicator for restoration of everglades ecosystems, 2009, Ecological Indicators (9) - 6 SUPPL.
- Detecting changes in riparian habitat conditions based on patterns of greenness change: A case study from the Upper San Pedro River Basin, USA, 2008, Ecological Indicators (8) - 1
- Use of tolerance values to diagnose water-quality stressors to aquatic biota in New England streams, 2008, Ecological Indicators (8) - 5
- Changes in stream chemistry and biology in response to reduced levels of acid deposition during 1987-2003 in the Neversink River Basin, Catskill Mountains, 2008, Ecological Indicators (8) - 3
- Species-area curves indicate the importance of habitats' contributions to regional biodiversity, 2007, Ecological Indicators (7) - 2
- Quantifying tolerance indicator values for common stream fish species of the United States, 2007, Ecological Indicators (7) - 2
- Estimation and application of indicator values for common macroinvertebrate genera and families of the United States, 2007, Ecological Indicators (7) - 1
- Biliary PAH metabolites and the hepatosomatic index of brown bullheads from Lake Erie tributaries, 2006, Ecological Indicators (6) - 3
- Leaf fluctuating asymmetry, soil disturbance and plant stress: A multiple year comparison using two herbs, Ipomoea pandurata and Cnidoscolus stimulosus, 2005, Ecological Indicators (5) - 2
- Estimating disturbance effects from military training using developmental instability and physiological measures of plant stress, 2004, Ecological Indicators (3) - 4
- Characterization of Lake Michigan coastal lakes using zooplankton assemblages, 2004, Ecological Indicators (4) - 4
- Natural and anthropogenic factors affecting the structure of the benthic macroinvertebrate community in an effluent-dominated reach of the Santa Cruz River, AZ, 2003, Ecological Indicators (3) - 2
- Effects of two classification strategies on a Benthic Community Index for streams in the Northern Lakes and Forests Ecoregion, 2003, Ecological Indicators (3) - 3
- A Benthic Community Index for streams in the Northern Lakes and Forests Ecoregion, 2003, Ecological Indicators (3) - 3
- Relations between introduced fish and environmental conditions at large geographic scales, 2003, Ecological Indicators (3) - 2
- Book review: Ecological indicators for the nation, 2002, Ecological Indicators (1) - 3
- Assemblages of breeding birds as indicators of grassland condition, 2002, Ecological Indicators (2) - 3
- Assemblages of breeding birds as indicators of grassland condition, 2002, Ecological Indicators (2) - 3
- Cost considerations for long-term ecological monitoring, 2001, Ecological Indicators (1) - 2
- Cost considerations for long-term ecological monitoring, 2001, Ecological Indicators (14) -
- Contribution of fish community metrics to the index of biotic integrity in two Ozark rivers, 1992, Ecological Indicators (1) - IV