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  1. Evolving nature-based solutions for urban resilience
  2. Comment on the paper “Low interaction in an interdisciplinary research field: a scientometric view of 80 years of publication in urban ecology” by Marques & Collevatti (2026)
  3. Thank You to Our 2025 Peer Reviewers
  4. Social-ecological-technological imaginaries for cities in the 21st century
  5. Nature-based solutions for urban sustainability
  6. Global synthesis and regional insights for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions
  7. Thank You to Our 2024 Peer Reviewers
  8. Quantity and quality of carbon from ash deposits associated with desert fire
  9. Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization
  10. Fire influence on land–water interactions in aridland catchments
  11. Welcome home! Introducing SocSES: a society for inclusive and impactful social-ecological research
  12. Nitrate Loads From Land to Stream Are Balanced by In‐Stream Nitrate Uptake Across Seasons in a Dryland Stream Network
  13. Persistent and lagged effects of fire on stream solutes linked to intermittent precipitation in arid lands
  14. Thank You to Our 2023 Peer Reviewers
  15. Estimating Combined Effects of Climate Change and Land Cover Change on Water Regulation Services of Urban Wetlands in Valdivia, Chile
  16. Ecohydrological Interfaces
  17. Changing climate and reorganized species interactions modify community responses to climate variability
  18. Urban ecological resilience: ensuring urban ecosystems can provide nature-based solutions
  19. Nature-based solutions and climate change resilience
  20. Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene
  21. Seasonal Rainfall, Shrub Cover and Soil Properties Drive Production of Winter Annuals in the Northern Sonoran Desert
  22. Thank You to Our 2022 Reviewers
  23. A New Scope and Aims for Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists
  24. Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science
  25. Extent, patterns, and drivers of hypoxia in the world's streams and rivers
  26. Consequences of an ecosystem state shift for nitrogen cycling in a desert stream
  27. Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure
  28. Denitrification and DNRA in Urban Accidental Wetlands in Phoenix, Arizona
  29. Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience frames in US and Latin American contexts
  30. Capturing practitioner perspectives on infrastructure resilience using Q-methodology
  31. Assessment of urban flood vulnerability using the social-ecological-technological systems framework in six US cities
  32. Thank You to Our 2020 Reviewers
  33. Water and nitrogen shape winter annual plant diversity and community composition in near‐urban Sonoran Desert preserves
  34. Urbanization in and for the Anthropocene
  35. Positive Futures
  36. A Framework for Resilient Urban Futures
  37. A Vision for Resilient Urban Futures
  38. Assessing Future Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability in Scenario Planning
  39. Setting the Stage for Co-Production
  40. Social, Ecological, and Technological Strategies for Climate Adaptation
  41. Using Biomimicry to Support Resilient Infrastructure Design
  42. Building community heat action plans story by story: A three neighborhood case study
  43. The Complexity of Urban Eco-evolutionary Dynamics
  44. Socio‐eco‐evolutionary dynamics in cities
  45. Integrating existing climate adaptation planning into future visions: A strategic scenario for the central Arizona–Phoenix region
  46. Simulating alternative sustainable water futures
  47. The co-production of sustainable future scenarios
  48. Thank You Earth's Future Reviewers in 2019
  49. Nature-based approaches to managing climate change impacts in cities
  50. Urban Science: Integrated Theory from the First Cities to Sustainable Metropolises
  51. Urban ecology: what is it and why do we need it?
  52. Traversing the Wasteland: A Framework for Assessing Ecological Threats to Drylands
  53. Urbanization in Arid Central Arizona Watersheds Results in Decreased Stream Flashiness
  54. Interactions Between Physical Template and Self-organization Shape Plant Dynamics in a Stream Ecosystem
  55. Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages: Understanding low‐carbon transitions in the era of global urbanization
  56. Thank you to Earth's Future Reviewers in 2018
  57. Cities of the Southwest are testbeds for urban resilience
  58. The Framing of Urban Sustainability Transformations
  59. Foundations and Frontiers of Ecosystem Science: Legacy of a Classic Paper (Odum 1969)
  60. Mixed method approach to assess atmospheric nitrogen deposition in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
  61. Influence of governance structure on green stormwater infrastructure investment
  62. Global change-driven effects on dissolved organic matter composition: Implications for food webs of northern lakes
  63. Defining extreme events: a cross-disciplinary review
  64. Partitioning assimilatory nitrogen uptake in streams: an analysis of stable isotope tracer additions across continents
  65. The metabolic regimes of flowing waters
  66. Ecohydrological interfaces as hot spots of ecosystem processes
  67. Evidence for self-organization in determining spatial patterns of stream nutrients, despite primacy of the geomorphic template
  68. “Accidental” urban wetlands: ecosystem functions in unexpected places
  69. Carbon lost and carbon gained: a study of vegetation and carbon trade-offs among diverse land uses in Phoenix, Arizona
  70. How ecological disturbance applies to cities
  71. Moving Towards a New Urban Systems Science
  72. Thank you to 2015 reviewers ofEarth's Future
  73. Frontiers in Ecosystem Ecology from a Community Perspective: The Future is Boundless and Bright
  74. Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities
  75. Climate change impacts on ecosystems and ecosystem services in the United States: process and prospects for sustained assessment
  76. Climate change impacts on ecosystems and ecosystem services in the United States: process and prospects for sustained assessment
  77. Climate change: Track urban emissions on a human scale
  78. Temporal variability in hydrology modifies the influence of geomorphology on wetland distribution along a desert stream
  79. Urban phosphorus sustainability: Systemically incorporating social, ecological, and technological factors into phosphorus flow analysis
  80. Nitrogen and phosphorus fluxes from watersheds of the northeast U.S. from 1930 to 2000: Role of anthropogenic nutrient inputs, infrastructure, and runoff
  81. Assessment of Regional Variation in Streamflow Responses to Urbanization and the Persistence of Physiography
  82. Type and timing of stream flow changes in urbanizing watersheds in the Eastern U.S.
  83. Urban ecology: advancing science and society
  84. A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems
  85. Stormwater Infrastructure Controls Runoff and Dissolved Material Export from Arid Urban Watersheds
  86. Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Current capabilities and research outlook from the natural sciences perspective
  87. What we need to know to achieve low-carbon futures in cities and urbanizing areas
  88. Comparative study of urban ecology development in the U.S. and China: Opportunity and Challenge
  89. Changing forest water yields in response to climate warming: results from long‐term experimental watershed sites across North America
  90. Sources and Transport of Nitrogen in Arid Urban Watersheds
  91. Influence of nitrate and ammonium availability on uptake kinetics of stream biofilms
  92. Climate-change impacts on ecological systems: introduction to a US assessment
  93. Evaluating climate impacts on people and ecosystems
  94. The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function
  95. Modelling potential impacts of climate change on water and nitrate export from a mid-sized, semiarid watershed in the US Southwest
  96. A hierarchical patch mosaic ecosystem model for urban landscapes: Model development and evaluation
  97. Sustainability needs the geosciences
  98. A comparative gradient approach as a tool for understanding and managing urban ecosystems
  99. Ecosystem Processes and Human Influences Regulate Streamflow Response to Climate Change at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
  100. Variation in monsoon precipitation drives spatial and temporal patterns of Larrea tridentata growth in the Sonoran Desert
  101. Responses of trace gases to hydrologic pulses in desert floodplains
  102. Denitrification mitigates N flux through the stream–floodplain complex of a desert city
  103. Small-scale and extensive hydrogeomorphic modification and water redistribution in a desert city and implications for regional nitrogen removal
  104. Chronic N loading reduces N retention across varying base flows in a desert river
  105. Abiotic and biotic controls of organic matter cycling in a managed stream
  106. Global Urban Growth and the Geography of Water Availability, Quality, and Delivery
  107. Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert
  108. Decomposition of urban atmospheric carbon in Sonoran Desert soils
  109. Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks
  110. An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research
  111. Opportunities and challenges for managing nitrogen in urban stormwater: A review and synthesis
  112. Influence of the hydrologic regime on resource availability in a semi-arid stream-riparian corridor
  113. Cross-stream comparison of substrate-specific denitrification potential
  114. Responses of macroinvertebrate communities to long-term flow variability in a Sonoran Desert stream
  115. Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism
  116. Dissolved inorganic nitrogen dynamics in the hyporheic zone of reference and human-altered southwestern U. S. streams
  117. Perspectives on the Modern Nitrogen Cycle1
  118. Effects of urbanization on plant species diversity in central Arizona
  119. Resazurin as a “smart” tracer for quantifying metabolically active transient storage in stream ecosystems
  120. Urbanization Alters Soil Microbial Functioning in the Sonoran Desert
  121. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification
  122. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake
  123. Nutrient Variation in an Urban Lake Chain and its Consequences for Phytoplankton Production
  124. Spatial Heterogeneity of Denitrification in Semi-Arid Floodplains
  125. Unintended Consequences of Urbanization for Aquatic Ecosystems: A Case Study from the Arizona Desert
  126. Atmospheric deposition of carbon and nutrients across an arid metropolitan area
  127. Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science
  128. The changing landscape: ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients
  129. Stream denitrification across biomes and its response to anthropogenic nitrate loading
  130. Hot spots and hot moments of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a semiarid riparian zone
  131. Soil N2O and NO emissions from an arid, urban ecosystem
  132. Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
  133. Hierarchical Spatial Modeling and Prediction of Multiple Soil Nutrients and Carbon Concentrations
  134. Effects of Urbanization-Induced Environmental Changes on Ecosystem Functioning in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region, USA
  135. Responses of soil microorganisms to resource availability in urban, desert soils
  136. HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN SCALING OF SOIL PROPERTIES ACROSS URBAN, AGRICULTURAL, AND DESERT ECOSYSTEMS
  137. HIERARCHICAL REGULATION OF NITROGEN EXPORT FROM URBAN CATCHMENTS: INTERACTIONS OF STORMS AND LANDSCAPES
  138. Correction to “Influence of shifting flow paths on nitrogen concentrations during monsoon floods, San Pedro River, Arizona”
  139. Variability in surface‐subsurface hydrologic interactions and implications for nutrient retention in an arid‐land stream
  140. Nutrient Vectors and Riparian Processing: A Review with Special Reference to African Semiarid Savanna Ecosystems
  141. Influence of shifting flow paths on nitrogen concentrations during monsoon floods, San Pedro River, Arizona
  142. Development of a Framework for Quantifying the Environmental Impacts of Urban Development and Construction Practices
  143. Subsystems, flowpaths, and the spatial variability of nitrogen in a fluvial ecosystem
  144. Points, patches, and regions: scaling soil biogeochemical patterns in an urbanized arid ecosystem
  145. Soil Characteristics and the Accumulation of Inorganic Nitrogen in an Arid Urban Ecosystem
  146. A vision for ecology's future: where are we today?
  147. A distinct urban biogeochemistry?
  148. The Spatial Structure of Variability in a Semi-arid, Fluvial Ecosystem
  149. Drivers of Spatial Variation in Plant Diversity Across the Central Arizona-Phoenix Ecosystem
  150. Nitrogen Transport and Retention in an Arid Land Watershed: Influence of Storm Characteristics on Terrestrial–aquatic Linkages
  151. Spatial variation in soil inorganic nitrogen across an arid urban ecosystem
  152. Simulating the dynamics of primary productivity of a Sonoran ecosystem: Model parameterization and validation
  153. NEON: lighting the way forward
  154. N retention and transformation in urban streams
  155. Hydrologic exchange and N uptake by riparian vegetation in an arid-land stream
  156. Ecology and the Transition to Sustainability
  157. LINKAGES BETWEEN MICROBIAL AND HYDROLOGIC PROCESSES IN ARID AND SEMIARID WATERSHEDS
  158. Ecology and the transition to sustainability
  159. N retention and transformation in urban streams
  160. Urban nitrogen biogeochemistry: status and processes in green retention basins
  161. Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling rates in streams
  162. Nutrients on Asphalt Parking Surfaces in an Urban Environment
  163. Effects of urbanization on nutrient biogeochemistry of aridland streams
  164. Merging aquatic and terrestrial perspectives of nutrient biogeochemistry
  165. Factors affecting ammonium uptake in streams - an inter-biome perspective
  166. Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity
  167. Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems
  168. The US Long Term Ecological Research Program
  169. Carbon and nitrogen transfer from a desert stream to riparian predators
  170. Can uptake length in streams be determined by nutrient addition experiments? Results from an interbiome comparison study
  171. N uptake as a function of concentration in streams
  172. Sources of Nitrogen to the Riparian Zone of a Desert Stream: Implications for Riparian Vegetation and Nitrogen Retention
  173. THE INFLUENCE OF A RIPARIAN SHRUB ON NITROGEN CYCLING IN A SONORAN DESERT STREAM
  174. The Urban Funnel Model and the Spatially Heterogeneous Ecological Footprint
  175. Inter-biome comparison of factors controlling stream metabolism
  176. Multiscale effects of surface–subsurface exchange on stream water nutrient concentrations
  177. Integrated Approaches to Long-TermStudies of Urban Ecological Systems
  178. A New Urban Ecology
  179. SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY OF STREAM WATER NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS OVER SUCCESSIONAL TIME
  180. Trophic interactions in open systems: Effects of predators and nutrients on stream food chains
  181. The impact of flash floods on microbial distribution and biogeochemistry in the parafluvial zone of a desert stream
  182. Nutrient dynamics at the interface between surface waters and groundwaters
  183. Hierarchy, spatial configuration, and nutrient cycling in a desert stream
  184. Material Spiraling in Stream Corridors: A Telescoping Ecosystem Model
  185. Pre- and Post-Flood Retention Efficiency of Nitrogen in a Sonoran Desert Stream
  186. Ecosystem Expansion and Contraction in Streams
  187. SENSITIVITY OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS TO CLIMATIC AND ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES: THE BASIN AND RANGE, AMERICAN SOUTHWEST AND MEXICO
  188. Organic Matter Dynamics in Sycamore Creek, a Desert Stream in Arizona, USA
  189. Response of a Hyporheic Invertebrate Assemblage to Drying Disturbance in a Desert Stream
  190. Denitrification in a nitrogen-limited stream ecosystem
  191. A long-term perspective of dissolved organic carbon transport in Sycamore Creek, Arizona, USA
  192. Methanogenesis in Arizona, USA dryland streams
  193. Nitrification in the Hyporheic Zone of a Desert Stream Ecosystem
  194. Vertical Hydrologic Exchange and Ecosystem Metabolism in a Sonoran Desert Stream
  195. Parafluvial Nitrogen Dynamics in a Desert Stream Ecosystem
  196. Mechanisms of benthic algal recovery following spates: comparison of simulated and natural events
  197. Invertebrate Resistance and Resilience to Intermittency in a Desert Stream
  198. Vertical Hydrologic Exchange and Ecological Stability of a Desert Stream Ecosystem
  199. Stability of an Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community in a Multiyear Hydrologic Disturbance Regime
  200. Global Change and Freshwater Ecosystems
  201. Temporal Variation in Enrichment Effects during Periphyton Succession in a Nitrogen-Limited Desert Stream Ecosystem
  202. Invertebrate recolonization of small patches of defaunated hyporheic sediments in a Sonoran Desert stream
  203. Stability of Periphyton and Macroinvertebrates to Disturbance by Flash Floods in a Desert Stream
  204. Role of Macroinvertebrates in Nitrogen Dynamics of a Desert Stream
  205. Feeding dynamics, nitrogen budgets, and ecosystem role of a desert stream omnivore, Agosia chrysogaster (Pisces: Cyprinidae)
  206. Nitrogen Dynamics During Succession in a Desert Stream
  207. Hydrologic and material budgets for a small Sonoran Desert watershed during three consecutive cloudburst floods
  208. Exchange between interstitial and surface water: Implications for stream metabolism and nutrient cycling
  209. Temporal Succession in a Desert Stream Ecosystem Following Flash Flooding
  210. Nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in hot desert streams of Southwestern U.S.A.
  211. Diel Feeding Chronologies in Two Sonoran Desert Stream Fishes, Agosia chrysogaster (Cyprinidae) and Pantosteus clarki (Catostomidae)