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Dan Childers

Dan Childers

Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures

dan.childers@asu.edu

480-965-2320

School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287-5502

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
  • Director, Undergraduate Program, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
  • Director, Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
  • Co-Director, Urban Sustainability RCN, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

Biography

Dan Childers is a professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is the director of the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER Program and co-director of the Urban Sustainability Research Coordination Network, both of which are funded by the National Science Foundation. He has also been the director of the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program.  His research focuses on wetland ecosystem ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science. Dan has conducted research in many different freshwater and estuarine ecosystems around the world, including working for nearly 15 years in the Florida Everglades. Since the early 2000s, he has expanded his research portfolio to include urban ecosystems, water dynamics in cities, urban sustainability, and urban wetlands. Dan has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles, won grants that have totaled over $30 million, and advised more than 30 PhD. and MS students.

Education

  • PhD, Louisiana State University, 1989
  • MS, University of South Carolina, 1985
  • BA, University of Virginia, 1983

Expertise

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Journal Articles

In Press

Frantzeskaki, N., D. L. Childers, F. Hoover, S. T. Pickett, O. Anderson, A. Barau, J. M. Grove, J. Ginsberg, M. Lodder, A. E. Lugo, P. T. McPhearson, T. A. Munoz-Erickson, M. Quartier, S. Schepers, A. Sharifi and K. van de Sijpe. Three pathways for a transformative shift in urban ecology towards a more active and relevant future for the field and for citie. Ambio

Pickett, S. T., A. T. Simone, P. Anderson, A. Sharifi, A. Barau, F. Hoover, D. L. Childers, P. T. McPhearson, T. A. Munoz-Erickson, C. Pacteau, J. M. Grove, N. Frantzeskaki, H. Nagendra and J. Ginsberg. The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structure to multiple modes of co-production for positive urban futures. Ambio

2023

Bunn, D., B. Buscher, M. R. McHale, M. L. Cadenasso, D. L. Childers, S. T. Pickett, L. Rivers III and L. Swemmer. 2023. Golden wildebeest days: Fragmentation and value in South Africa’s wildlife economy after Apartheid. Journal of Southern African Studies 48(6):1013-1035. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2022.2145776. (link )

2022

Hudson, A. R., D. P. Peters, J. M. Blair, D. L. Childers, P. T. Doran, K. Geil, M. N. Gooseff, K. Gross, N. M. Haddad, M. A. Pastore, J. A. Rudgers, O. E. Sala, E. W. Seabloom and G. Shaver. 2022. Cross-site comparisons of dryland ecosystem responses to climate change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. BioScience 72(9):889-907. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biab134. (link )

McPhearson, P. T., E. M. Cook, M. Berbés-Blázquez, C. Cheng, N. B. Grimm, E. Andersson, O. Barbosa, D. G. Chandler, H. Chang, M. V. Chester, D. L. Childers, S. R. Elser, N. Frantzeskaki, Z. J. Grabowski, P. M. Groffman, R. L. Hale, D. M. Iwaniec, N. Kabisch, C. Kennedy, S. A. Markolf, M. Matsler, L. McPhillips, T. R. Miller, T. A. Munoz-Erickson, E. J. Rosi and T. G. Troxler. 2022. A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services. One Earth 5(5):505-518. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.007. (link )

2021

Bois, P., D. L. Childers, M. Walaszek and A. Wanko. 2021. Plant transpiration in constructed treatment wetland: Effects on water budget and management consequences. Journal of Environmental Management 295(Oct):113132. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113132. (link )

2020

Brown, J. A., K. L. Larson, S. B. Lerman, D. L. Childers, R. Andrade, H. L. Bateman, S. J. Hall, P. S. Warren and A. M. York. 2020. Influences of environmental and social factors on perceived bio-cultural services and disservices. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:569730. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.569730. (link )

Childers, D. L. 2020. A decade of ecosystem-scale research at an aridland constructed wetland. Frontiers in Environmental Science 8:576936. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.576936. (link )

Gaiser, E. E., D. M. Bell, C. N. Castorani, D. L. Childers, P. M. Groffman, R. Jackson, J. S. Kominoski, D. P. Peters, S. T. Pickett, J. Ripplinger and J. C. Zinnert. 2020. Long-term ecological research and evolving frameworks of disturbance ecology. BioScience 70(2):141-156. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz162. (link )

Suchy, A., M. M. Palta, J. C. Stromberg and D. L. Childers. 2020. High potential nitrate removal by urban accidental wetlands in a desert city: Limitations and spatio-temporal patterns. Ecosystems 22:1227–1242. DOI: DOI 10.1007/s10021-019-00465-8. (link )

Treese, S., D. L. Childers and C. A. Sanchez. 2020. Long-term trends in nitrogen removal by an aridland constructed treatment wetland. Constructed Wetlands DOI: 10.1007/s13157-020-01376-4. (link )

2019

Childers, D. L., P. Bois, H. E. Hartnett, P. T. McPhearson, G. S. Metson and C. A. Sanchez. 2019. Urban ecological infrastructure: An inclusive concept for the non-built urban environment. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 7(1):46. DOI: 10.1525/elementa.385. (link )

Larson, K. L., E. A. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. M. York, S. A. Meerow, P. J. Coseo, D. L. Childers and D. M. Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating and analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology and Society 24(2):Art 7. DOI: 10.5751/ES-10888-240207. (link )

Larson, K. L., E. A. Corley, S. J. Hall, A. M. York, R. Andrade, D. L. Childers, P. J. Coseo, D. M. Hondula and S. A. Meerow. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating robust survey scales. Ecology and Society 24(2):7. DOI: 10.5751/ES-10888-240207. (link )

Yu, R., B. L. Ruddell, M. Kang, J. Kim and D. L. Childers. 2019. Anticipating global terrestrial ecosystem state change using FLUXNET. Global Change Biology 25(7):2352-2367. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14602. (link )

2018

McHale, M. R., S. M. Beck, S. T. Pickett, D. L. Childers, M. L. Cadenasso, L. Rivers III, L. Swemmer, L. Ebersohn, W. Twine and D. N. Bunn. 2018. Democratization of ecosystem services—a radical approach for assessing nature’s benefits in the face of urbanization. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 4(5):114-131. DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2018.1480905. (link )

Pisani, O., M. Gao, N. Maie, T. Miyoshi, D. L. Childers and R. Jaffe. 2018. Compositional aspects of herbaceous litter decomposition in the freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades. Plant and Soil 423(1-2):87-98. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-017-3495-3. (link )

Warner, B. P., D. L. Childers, C. Kuzdas and G. Stocks. 2018. Smallholder adaptation to drought in Costa Rica's crony capitalist rice economy. Development and Change 49(6):1392-1421. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12420. (link )

2017

Bois, P., D. L. Childers, T. Corlouer, J. Laurent, A. Massicot, C. A. Sanchez and A. Wanko. 2017. Confirming a plant-mediated "Biological Tide" in an aridland constructed treatment wetland. Ecosphere 8(3):e01756. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1756. (link )

Chapman, E. J., H. Cadillo-Quiroz, D. L. Childers, M. R. Turetsky and M. P. Waldrop. 2017. Soil microbial community composition is correlated to soil carbon processing along a boreal wetland formation gradient. European Journal of Soil Biology 82(Sep-Oct):17-26. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejsobi.2017.08.001. (link )

Groffman, P. M., M. L. Cadenasso, J. Cavender-Bares, D. L. Childers, N. B. Grimm, J. M. Grove, S. E. Hobbie, L. R. Hutyra, G. D. Jenerette, P. T. McPhearson, D. E. Pataki, S. T. Pickett, R. V. Pouyat, E. Rosi-Marshall and B. L. Ruddell. 2017. Moving towards a new urban systems science. Ecosystems 20(1):38-43. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-0053-4. (link )

Naja, M., D. L. Childers and E. E. Gaiser. 2017. Water quality implications of hydrologic restoration alternatives in the Florida Everglades United States. Restoration Ecology 25(S1):S58-S58. DOI: 10.1111/rec.12513. (link )

2016

Chapman, E. J., D. L. Childers, E. L. Shock and M. R. Turetsky. 2016. A thermodynamic analysis of ecosystem development in northern wetlands. Wetlands 36(5):1143-1153. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-016-0833-9. (link )

Chapman, E. J., D. L. Childers and J. J. Vallino. 2016. How the second law of thermodynamics has informed ecosystem ecology through its history. BioScience 66(1):27-39. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv166. (link )

Grove, J. M., D. L. Childers, M. Galvin, S. Hines, T. A. Munoz-Erickson and E. Svendsen. 2016. Linking science and decision-making to promote an ecology for the city: Practices and opportunities. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2(9):e01239. DOI: 10.1002/ehs2.1239. (link )

Kuzdas, C., B. P. Warner, A. Wiek, R. Vignola, M. Yglesias and D. L. Childers. 2016. Sustainability assessment of water governance alternatives-The case of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Sustainability Science 11(2):231-247. DOI: 10.1007/s11625-015-0324-6. (link )

Munoz-Erickson, T. A., L. Campbell, D. L. Childers, J. M. Grove, D. M. Iwaniec, S. T. Pickett, M. Romolini and E. Svendsen. 2016. Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social-ecological systems. Ecosphere 7(11):e01564. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1564. (link )

Pickett, S. T., M. L. Cadenasso, D. L. Childers, M. J. McDowell and W. Zhou. 2016. Evolution and future of urban ecological science: Ecology in, of, and for the city. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 2(7):e01229. DOI: 10.1002/ehs2.1229. (link )

Ruddell, B. L., R. Yu, M. Kang and D. L. Childers. 2016. Seasonally varied controls of climate and phenophase on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Modeling eco-climate system state using Dynamical Process Networks. Landscape Ecology 31(1):1-16. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0253-x. (link )

Sanchez, C. A., D. L. Childers, L. J. Turnbull, R. F. Upham and N. A. Weller. 2016. Aridland constructed treatment wetlands II: Plant mediation of surface hydrology enhances nitrogen removal. Ecological Engineering 97(Dec):658-665. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.01.002. (link )

Weller, N. A., D. L. Childers, C. A. Sanchez, L. J. Turnbull and R. F. Upham. 2016. Aridland constructed treatment wetlands I: Macrophyte community productivity, community composition, and nitrogen uptake. Ecological Engineering 97(Dec):649=657. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.05.044. (link )

2015

Childers, D. L., M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, V. Marshall, B. McGrath and S. T. Pickett. 2015. An ecology for cities: A transformational nexus of design and ecology to advance climate change resilience and urban sustainability. Sustainability 7(4):3774-3791. DOI: 10.3390/su7043774. (link )

Grove, J. M., R. Roy Chowdhury and D. L. Childers. 2015. Co-design, co-production, and dissemination of social-ecological knowledge to promote sustainability and resilience: urban experiences from the U.S. Global Land Project News 11(Apr):6-11. (link )

Hale, R. L., L. J. Turnbull, S. R. Earl, D. L. Childers and N. B. Grimm. 2015. Stormwater infrastructure controls runoff and dissolved material export from arid urban watersheds. Ecosystems 18(1):62-75. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-014-9812-2. (link )

McHale, M. R., S. T. Pickett, O. Barbosa, D. N. Bunn, M. L. Cadenasso, D. L. Childers, M. Gartin, G. R. Hess, D. M. Iwaniec, P. T. McPhearson, M. N. Peterson, A. K. Poole, L. Rivers III, S. T. Shutters and W. Zhou. 2015. The new global urban realm: Complex, connected, diffuse, and diverse social-ecological systems. Sustainability 7(5):5211-5240. DOI: 10.3390/su7055211. (link )

Metson, G. S., D. M. Iwaniec, L. A. Baker, E. M. Bennett, D. L. Childers, D. Cordell, N. B. Grimm, J. M. Grove, D. A. Nidzgorski and S. White. 2015. Urban phosphorus sustainability: Systematically incorporating social, ecological, and technological factors into phosphorus flow analysis. Environmental Science & Policy 47:1-11. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2014.10.005. (link )

Schwarz, K., M. Fragkias, C. G. Boone, W. Zhou, M. McHale, J. M. Grove, J. O'Neil-Dunne, J. P. McFadden, G. L. Buckley, D. Childers, L. Ogden, S. Pincetl, D. Pataki, A. Whitmer and M. L. Cadenasso. 2015. Trees grow on money: Urban tree canopy cover and environmental justice. PLOS One 10(4):e0122051. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122051. (link )

Warner, B. P., C. Kuzdas, M. G. Yglesias and D. L. Childers. 2015. Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica. Global Environmental Change 30(Jan):101-112. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.002. (link )

2014

Childers, D. L., S. T. Pickett, J. M. Grove, L. A. Ogden and A. C. Whitmer. 2014. Advancing urban sustainability theory and action: Challenges and opportunities. Landscape and Urban Planning 125(2014):320-328. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.022. (link )

Collins, S. L. and D. L. Childers. 2014. Long-term ecological research and network-level science. EOS Transactions 95(33):293-304. DOI: 10.1002/2014EO330001. (link )

Hale, R. L., L. Turnbull, S. Earl, N. Grimm, K. Riha, G. Michalski, K. A. Lohse and D. Childers. 2014. Sources and transport of nitrogen in arid urban watersheds. Environmental Science & Technology 48(11):6211–6219. DOI: 10.1021/es501039t. (link )

Iwaniec, D. M., D. L. Childers, K. Vanlehn and A. Wiek. 2014. Studying, teaching and applying sustainability visions using systems modeling. Sustainability 6(7):4452-4469. DOI: 10.3390/su6074452. (link )

Koch, G. R., S. Hagerthey, D. L. Childers and E. Gaiser. 2014. Examining seasonally pulsed detrital transport in the coastal Everglades using a sediment tracing technique. Wetlands 54(1 Supple.):123-133. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0388-y. (link )

Troxler, T. G., D. L. Childers and C. J. Madden. 2014. Drivers of decadal-scale change in the structure and function of southern Everglades wetland macrophyte communities. Wetlands 34(1 Supple.):81-90. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0446-5. (link )

2013

Pickett, S. T., C. G. Boone, B. P. McGrath, M. L. Cadenasso, D. L. Childers, L. A. Ogden, M. R. McHale and J. M. Grove. 2013. Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city. Cities 32(Supplement 1):510-520. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2013.02.008. (link )

Troxler, T. G., E. Gaiser, J. Barr, J. D. Fuentes, R. Jaffe, D. L. Childers, L. Collado-Vides, V. H. Rivera-Monroy, E. Castaneda-Moya, W. Anderson, R. Chambers, M. Chen, C. Coronado-Molina, S. E. Davis, V. Engel, C. Fitz, J. Fourqurean, T. Frankovich, J. S. Kominoski, C. Madden, S. L. Malone, S. F. Oberbauer, P. Olivas, J. Richards, C. J. Saunders, J. Schedlbauer, L. J. Scinto, F. H. Sklar, T. Smith, J. M. Smoak, G. Starr, R. R. Twilley and K. R. Whelan. 2013. Integrated carbon budget models for the Everglades terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient: Current status and needs for inter-site comparisons. Oceanography 26(3):98-107. DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2013.51. (link )

2012

Koch, G. R., D. L. Childers, E. E. Gaiser and T. Price. 2012. Hydrological conditions control P loading and aquatic metabolism in an oligotrophic, subtropical estuary. Estuaries and Coasts 35:292-307. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9431-5. (link )

Metson, G. S., R. M. Aggarwal and D. L. Childers. 2012. Efficiency through proximity: Changes in phosphorus cycling at the urban-agricultural interface of a rapidly urbanizing desert region. Journal of Industrial Ecology 16(6):914-927. DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00554.x. (link )

Metson, G. S., R. L. Hale, D. M. Iwaniec, E. M. Cook, J. R. Gorman, C. S. Galletti and D. L. Childers. 2012. Phosphorus in Phoenix: A budget and spatial representation of phosphorus in an urban ecosystem. Ecological Applications 22(2):705-721. DOI: 10.1890/11-0865.1. (link )

Troxler, T. G., M. Ikenaga, L. J. Scinto, J. N. Boyer, R. Condit, R. Perez, G. D. Gann and D. L. Childers. 2012. Patterns of soil bacteria and canopy community structure related to tropical peatland development. Wetlands 32:769-782. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0310-z. (link )

Turnbull, L. J., B. P. Wilcox, L. Belnap, S. Ravi, S. D Odorico, D. L. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, K. Caylor and T. Sankey. 2012. Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in drylands. Ecohydrology 5:174-183. DOI: 10.1002/eco265. (link )

Wozniak, J. R., W. T. Anderson, D. L. Childers, E. E. Glaser, C. J. Madden and D. T. Rudnick. 2012. Potential N processing by southern Everglades freshwater marshes: Are Everglades marshes passive conduits for nitrogen?. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 96:60-68. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.08.024. (link )

2011

Childers, D. L., J. R. Corman, M. R. Edwards and J. J. Elser. 2011. Sustainability challenges of phosphorus and food: Solutions from closing the human phosphorus cycle. BioScience 61(2):117-124. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2011.61.2.6. (link )

Collins, S. L., S. R. Carpenter, S. M. Swinton, D. E. Orenstein, D. L. Childers, T. L. Gragson, N. B. Grimm, J. M. Grove, S. L. Harlan, J. P. Kaye, A. K. Knapp, G. P. Kofinas, J. J. Magnuson, W. H. McDowell, J. M. Melack, L. A. Ogden, G. P. Robertson, M. D. Smith and A. C. Whitmer. 2011. An integrated conceptual framework for social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(6):351-357. (link )

Rivera-Monroy, V. H., R. R. Twilley, S. E. Davis III, D. L. Childers, M. Simard, R. Chambers, R. Jaffe, J. N. Boyer, D. T. Rudnick, K. Zhang, E. Castaneda-Moya, S. M. Ewe, R. M. Price, C. Coronado-Molina, M. Ross, T. J. Smith III, B. Michot, E. Meselher, W. Nuttle, T. G. Troxler and G. B. Noe. 2011. The role of the Everglades Mangrove Ecotone Region (EMER) in regulating nutrient cycling and wetland productivity in south Florida. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology 41(S1):633-669. DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2010.530907. (link )

2010

Deng, Y., H. M. Solo-Gabriele, M. Laas, L. Leonard, D. L. Childers, G. He and V. Engel. 2010. Impacts of hurricanes on surface water flow within a wetland. Journal of Hydrology 392(3-4):164-173. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.08.004. (link )

He, G., V. Engel, L. Leonard, A. Croft, D. L. Childers, M. Laas, Y. Deng and H. M. Solo-Gabriele. 2010. Factors controlling surface water flow in a low-gradient subtropical wetland. Wetlands 30(2):275-286. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0022-1. (link )

Troxler, T. G. and D. L. Childers. 2010. Biogeochemical contributions of tree islands to Everglades wetland landscape nitrogen cycling during seasonal inundation. Ecosystems 13:75-89. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-009-9302-0. (link )

2009

Babbitt, K. J., M. J. Baber, D. L. Childers and D. Hocking. 2009. Influence of agricultural upland habitat type on larval anuran assemblages in seasonally inundated wetlands. Wetlands 29(1):294-301. DOI: 10.1672/07-228.1. (link )

Troxler, T. G. and D. L. Childers. 2009. Litter decomposition promotes differential feedbacks in an oligotrophic southern Everglades wetland. Plant Ecology 200:69-82. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9405-2. (link )

Wetzel, P. R., A. G. van der Valk, S. Newman, C. A. Coronado, T. G. Troxler, D. L. Childers, W. H. Orem and F. H. Sklar. 2009. Heterogeneity of phosphorus distribution in a patterned landscape, the Florida Everglades. Plant Ecology 200:83-90. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-008-9449-3. (link )

2008

Wozniak, J. R., D. L. Childers, W. T. Anderson, D. T. Rudnick and C. J. Madden. 2008. An in situ mesocosm method for quantifying nitrogen cycling rates in oligotrophic wetlands using 15N tracer techniques. Wetlands 28(2):502-512. DOI: 10.1672/07-29.1. (link )

2007

Davis III, S. E. and D. L. Childers. 2007. Importance of water source in controlling leaf leaching losses in a dwarf red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle L.) wetland. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 71(1-2):194-201. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2006.07.010. (link )

Noe, G. B. and D. L. Childers. 2007. Phosphorus budgets in Everglades wetland ecosystems: The effects of hydrology and nutrient enrichment. Wetlands Ecology and Management 15(3):189-205. DOI: 10.1007/s11273-006-9023-5. (link )

2006

Bazante, J., G. Jacobi, H. M. Solo-Gabriele, D. Reed, S. Mitchell-Bruker, D. L. Childers, L. Leonard and M. Ross. 2006. Hydrologic measurements and implications for tree island formation within Everglades National Park. Journal of Hydrology 329(3-4):606-619. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.03.011. (link )

Childers, D. L. 2006. A synthesis of long-term research by the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER Program. Hydrobiologia 569(1):531-544. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0154-8. (link )

Childers, D. L., J. N. Boyer, S. E. Davis, C. J. Madden, D. T. Rudnick and F. H. Sklar. 2006. Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentration patterns in the oligotrophic “upside down” estuaries of the Florida Everglade. Limnology and Oceanography 51(1 Part 2):602-616. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0602. (link )

Childers, D. L., D. M. Iwaniec, D. Rondeau, G. Rubio, E. Verdon and C. J. Madden. 2006. Responses of sawgrass and spikerush to variation in hydrologic drivers and salinity in southern Everglades marshes. Hydrobiologia 569(1):273-292. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0137-9. (link )

Davis III, S. E., D. L. Childers and G. B. Noe. 2006. The contribution of leaching to the rapid release of nutrients and carbon in the early decay of wetland vegetation. Hydrobiologia 569(1):87-97. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0124-1. (link )

Ewe, S. M., E. E. Gaiser, D. L. Childers, D. M. Iwaniec, V. H. Rivera-Monroy and R. R. Twilley. 2006. Spatial and temporal patterns of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) along two freshwater-estuarine transects in the Florida Coastal Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569(1):459-474. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0149-5. (link )

Farber, S., R. Costanza, D. L. Childers, J. Erickson, K. Gross, J. M. Grove, C. Hopkinson, J. Kahn, S. Pincetl, A. Troy, P. S. Warren and M. Wilson. 2006. An ecosystem services framework that links science, values and environmental decision-making. BioScience 56(2):121-133.

Gaiser, E. E., D. L. Childers, R. D. Jones, J. H. Richards, L. J. Scinto and J. C. Trexler. 2006. Periphyton responses to eutrophication in the Florida Everglades: Cross-system patterns of structural and compositional change. Limnology and Oceanography 51(1 Part 2):617-630. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.1_part_2.0617. (link )

Iwaniec, D. M., D. L. Childers, D. Rondeau and C. J. Madden. 2006. Effects of hydrologic and water quality drivers on periphyton dynamics in the southern Everglades. Hydrobiologia 569(1):273. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0134-z. (link )

Leonard, L., A. Croft, D. L. Childers, S. Mitchell-Bruker and H. M. Solo-Gabriele. 2006. Characteristics of surface-water flows in the ridge and slough landscape of Everglades National Park: Implications for particulate transport. Hydrobiologia 569(1):5-22. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0119-y. (link )

Maie, N., R. Jaffe, T. Miyoshi and D. L. Childers. 2006. Quantitative and qualitatuve aspects of dissolved organic carbon leached from senescent plants in an oligotrophic wetland. Biogeochemistry 78:285-314. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-005-4329-6. (link )

Rubio, G. and D. L. Childers. 2006. Controls on herbaceous litter decomposition in the estuarine ecotones of the Florida Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 29(2):257-268. (link )

Saunders, C. J., M. Gao, J. A. Lynch, R. Jaffe and D. L. Childers. 2006. Using soil profiles of seeds and molecular markers as proxies for sawgrass and wet prairie slough vegetation in Shark Slough, Everglades National Park. Hydrobiologia 569:475-492. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0150-z. (link )

Trexler, J., E. Gaiser and D. L. Childers. 2006. Interaction of hydrology and nutrients in controlling ecosystem function in oligotrophic coastal environments of South Florida. Hydrobiologia 569(1):1-2. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0118-z. (link )

Troxler-Gann, T. and D. L. Childers. 2006. Relationships between hydrology and soils describe vegetation patterns in seasonally flooded tree islands of the southern Everglades, Florida. Plant and Soil 279(1-2):271-286. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-005-2362-9. (link )

2005

Anderson, W. T., L. S. Sternberg, M. C. Pinzon, T. G. Gann-Troxler, D. L. Childers and M. Duever. 2005. Carbon isotopic composition of cypress trees from South Florida and changing hydrologic conditions. Dendrochronologia 23(1):1-10. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2005.07.006. (link )

Davis, S. M., D. L. Childers, J. J. Lorenz, H. R. Wanless and T. E. Hopkins. 2005. A conceptual model of ecological interactions in the mangrove estuaries of the Florida Everglades. Wetlands 25(4):832-842. DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2005)025[0832:ACMOEI]2.0.CO;2. (link )

Gaiser, E. E., J. Trexler, J. Richards, D. L. Childers, D. Lee, A. L. Edwards, L. J. Scinto, K. Jayachandaran, G. B. Noe and R. D. Jones. 2005. Cascading ecological effects of low-level phosphorus enrichment in the Florida Everglades. Journal of Environmental Quality 34:717-723. DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0717. (link )

Troxler Gann, T. G., D. L. Childers and D. N. Rondeau. 2005. Ecosystem structure, nutrient dynamics, and hydrologic relationships in tree islands of the southern Everglades, Florida, USA. Foreste Ecology and Management 214(1-3):11-27. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.065. (link )

Wetzel, P. R., A. G. van der Valk, S. Newman, D. E. Gawlik, T. Troxler-Gann, C. A. Coronado-Molina, D. L. Childers and F. H. Sklar. 2005. Maintaining tree islands in the Florida Everglades: Nutrient redistribution is the key. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(7):370-376. DOI: 10.2307/3868586. (link )

2004

Daoust, R. J. and D. L. Childers. 2004. Ecological effects of low-level phosphorus additions on two plant communities in a neotropical freshwater wetland ecosystem. Oecologia 141(4):672-686. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1675-3. (link )

Davis, S. E., J. E. Cable, D. L. Childers, C. Coronado-Molina, J. W. Day, C. D. Hittle, C. J. Madden, E. Reyes, D. Rudnick and F. Sklar. 2004. Importance of storm events in controlling ecosystem structure and function in a Florida Gulf Coast estuary. Journal of Coastal Research 2004(204):1198-1209. DOI: 10.2112/03-0072R.1. (link )

Gaiser, E. E., L. J. Scinto, J. Richards, K. Jayachandaran, D. L. Childers, J. Trexler and R. D. Jones. 2004. Phosphorus in periphyton mats provides the best metric for detecting low-level P enrichment in an oligotrophic wetland. Water Research 38(3):507-516. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2003.10.020. (link )

Rivera-Monroy, V. H., R. R. Twilley, D. Bone, D. L. Childers, C. Coronado-Molina, I. C. Feller, J. Herrera-Silveira, R. Jaffe, E. Mancera, E. Rejmankova, J. E. Salisbury and E. Weil. 2004. A conceptual framework to develop Long Term Ecological Research and management objectives in the wider Caribbean region. BioScience 54(9):843-456. DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0843:ACFTDL]2.0.CO;2. (link )

Stevenson, C. and D. L. Childers. 2004. Hydroperiod and seasonal effects on fish decomposition in an oligotrophic Everglades marsh. Wetlands 24(3):529-537. DOI: 0.1672/0277-5212(2004)024[0529:HASEOF]2.0.CO;2. (link )

2003

Barr, J. G., J. D. Fuentes, D. Wang, Y. Edmonds, B. P. Hayden and D. Childers. 2003. Red mangroves emit hydrocarbons. Southeastern Naturalist 2(4):499-510. (link )

Beck, M. W., K. L. Heck, K. W. Able, D. L. Childers, D. B. Eggleston, B. M. Gillanders, B. S. Halpern, C. G. Hays, K. Hoshino, T. J. Minello, R. J. Orth, P. F. Sheridan and M. P. Weinstein. 2003. The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries. Issues in Ecology 11(Spring):1-12. (link )

Childers, D. L., R. F. Doren, R. Jones, G. B. Noe, M. Rugge and L. J. Scinto. 2003. Decadal change in vegetation and soil phosphorus patterns across the Everglades landscape. Journal of Environmental Quality 32(1):344-362. DOI: 10.2134/jeq2003.3440. (link )

Davis III, S. E., D. L. Childers, J. W. Day Jr, D. T. Rudnick and F. H. Sklar. 2003. Factors affecting the concentration and flux of materials in two southern Everglades mangrove wetlands. Marine Ecology Progress Series 253(May):85-96. (link )

Davis III, S. E., C. Corronado-Molina, D. L. Childers and J. W. Day Jr. 2003. Temporally dependent C, N, and P dynamics associated with the decay of Rhizophora mangle L. leaf litter in an oligotrophic mangrove wetlands of the southern Everglades. Aquatic Botany 75(3):199-215. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(02)00176-6. (link )

Noe, G. B., L. J. Scinto, J. G. Taylor, D. L. Childers and R. D. Jones. 2003. Phosphorus cycling and partitioning in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem: A radioisotope tracing study. Freshwater Biology 48(11):1993-2008. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2003.01143.x. (link )

Sutula, M. A., B. C. Perez, E. Reyes, D. L. Childers, S. Davis, J. W. Day Jr, D. T. Rudnick and F. H. Sklar. 2003. Factors affecting spatial and temporal variability in material exchange between the Southern Everglades wetlands and Florida Bay (USA). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 57(5-6):757-781. DOI: 10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00403-1. (link )

2002

Baber, M. J., D. L. Childers, K. J. Babbitt and D. H. Anderson. 2002. Controls on fish distribution and abundance in temporary wetlands. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59(9):1441-1450. DOI: 10.1139/f02-116. (link )

Noe, G. B., D. L. Childers, A. L. Edwards, E. Gaiser, K. Jayachandaran, D. Lee, J. Meeder, J. Richards, L. J. Scinto, J. C. Trexler and R. D. Jones. 2002. Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment. Biogeochemistry 59(3):239-267. DOI: 10.1023/A:1016090009874. (link )

2001

Beck, M. W., K. L. Heck, K. W. Able, D. L. Childers, D. B. Eggleston, B. M. Gillanders, B. Halpern, C. G. Hays, K. Hoshino, T. J. Minello, R. J. Orth, P. F. Sheridan and M. P. Weinstein. 2001. The identification, conservation, and management of estuarine and marine nurseries for fish and invertebrates: A better understanding of the habitats that serve as nurseries for marine species and the factors that create site-specific variability in ..... BioScience 51(8):633-641. DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0633:TICAMO]2.0.CO;2. (link )

Davis III, S. E., D. L. Childers, J. W. Day Jr, D. T. Rudnick and F. H. Sklar. 2001. Nutrient dynamics in vegetated and unvegetated areas of a southern Everglades mangrove creek. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 52(6):753-768. DOI: 10.1006/ecss.2001.0755. (link )

Davis, S. E., D. L. Childers, J. W. Day, D. T. Rudnick and F. H. Sklar. 2001. Wetland-water column exchanges of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in a southern Everglades dwarf mangrove. Estuaries 24(4):610-622. DOI: 10.2307/1353261. (link )

Noe, G. B., D. L. Childers and R. D. Jones. 2001. Phosphorus biogeochemistry and the impacts of phosphorus enrichment: Why are the Everglades so unique?. Ecosystems 4(7):603-624. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0032-1. (link )

2000

Buzelli, C. P., D. L. Childers, Q. Dong and R. D. Jones. 2000. Simulation of periphyton phosphorus dynamics in Everglades National Park. Ecological Modelling 134(1):103-115. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00339-2. (link )

1999

Daoust, R. J. and D. L. Childers. 1999. Controls on emergent macrophyte composition, abundance, and productivity in freshwater Everglades wetland communitie. Wetlands 19(1):262-275. DOI: 10.1007/BF03161756. (link )

Davis, J. L., D. L. Childers and D. N. Kuhn. 1999. Clonal diversity in populations of the seagrass Thalassia testudinum: Molecular genetic assessment of population structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series 186(Sep):127-136. (link )

Rudnick, D. T., Z. Chen, D. L. Childers and T. D. Fontaine. 1999. Phosphorus and nitrogen inputs to Florida Bay:The importance of the Everglades watershed. Estuaries 22(2):398-416. DOI: 10.2307/1353207. (link )

1998

Daoust, R. J. and D. L. Childers. 1998. Quantifying aboveground biomass and estimating net aboveground primary production for wetland macrophytes using a non-destructive phenometric technique. Aquatic Botany 62(2):115-133. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3770(98)00078-3. (link )

1994

Childers, D. L., F. H. Sklar and S. E. Hutchinson. 1994. Statistical treatment and comparative analysis of scale-dependent aquatic transect data in estuarine landscapes. Landscape Ecology 9(2):127-141. DOI: 10.1007/BF00124379. (link )

1993

Childers, D. L., S. Cofer-Shabica and L. Nakashima. 1993. Spatial and temporal variability in marsh–water column interactions in a southeastern USA salt marsh estuary. Marine Ecology 95(1/2):25-38. (link )

Childers, D. L., H. N. McKellar Jr, R. F. Dame, F. H. Sklar and E. R. Blood. 1993. A dynamic nutrient budget of subsystem interactions in a salt marsh estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 36(2):105-131. DOI: 10.1006/ecss.1993.1008. (link )

Childers, D. L., F. H. Sklar, B. Drake and T. Jordan. 1993. Seasonal measurements of sediment elevation in three Mid-Atlantic estuaries. Journal of Coastal Research 9(4):986-1003. (link )

1992

Dame, R., D. Childers and E. Koepfler. 1992. A geohydrologic continuum theory for the spatial and temporal evolution of marsh-estuarine ecosystems. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research 30(Dec):63-72. DOI: 10.1016/0077-7579(92)90046-H. (link )

1991

Childers, D. L. and J. W. Day Jr. 1991. The dilution and loss of wetland function associated with conversion to open water. Wetlands Ecology and Management 1(3):163-171. DOI: 10.1007/BF00177290. (link )

1990

Childers, D. L. and J. W. Day Jr. 1990. Marsh-water column interactions in two Louisiana estuaries. I. Sediment dynamcs. Estuaries 13(4):393-403. DOI: 10.2307/1351784. (link )

Childers, D. L. and J. W. Day Jr. 1990. Marsh-water column interactions in two Louisiana estuaries. II. Nutrient dynamics. Estuaries 13(4):404-417. DOI: 10.2307/1351785. (link )

Childers, D. L., J. W. Day Jr and R. A. Muller. 1990. Relating climatological forcing to coastal water levels in Louisiana estuaries and the potential importance of El Niño-Southern Oscillation events. Climate Research 1:21-42. (link )

Childers, D. L. and J. G. Gosselink. 1990. Assessment of cumulative impacts to water quality in a forested wetland landscape. Journal of Environmental Quality 19(3):455-464. (link )

Gosselink, J. G., G. P. Shaffer, L. C. Lee, D. M. Burdick, D. L. Childers, N. C. Leibowitz, S. C. Hamilton, . , D. Cushman, S. Fields, M. Koch and J. M. Visser. 1990. Landscape conservation in a forested wetland watershed. BioScience 40(8):588-600. DOI: 10.2307/1311299. (link )

1989

Whiting, G. J. and D. L. Childers. 1989. Subtidal advective water as a potentially important nutrient input to southeastern U.S.A. saltmarsh estuaries. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 28(4):417-431. DOI: 10.1016/0272-7714(89)90089-9. (link )

1988

Childers, D. L. and J. W. Day Jr. 1988. A flow-through flume technique for quantifying nutrient and materials fluxes in microtidal estuaries. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 27(5):483-894. DOI: 10.1016/0272-7714(88)90079-0. (link )

1987

Childers, D. L. and H. N. McKellar Jr. 1987. A simulation of saltmarsh water column dynamics. Ecological Modelling 36(3-4):211-238. DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(87)90069-X. (link )

Hornbach, D. J. and D. L. Childers. 1987. The effect of acidification on life-history traits of the freshwater clam Musculium partumeium (Say, 1822) (Bivalvia: Pisidiidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 65(1):113-121. DOI: 10.1139/z87-017. (link )

1986

Hornbach, D. J. and D. L. Childers. 1986. Life-history variation in a stream population of Musculium partumeium (Bivalvia: Pisidiidae). Journal of the North American Benthological Society 5(263-271):. (link )

Books

2019

Childers, D. L., E. E. Gaiser and L. A. Ogden eds. 2019. The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190869007.

Book Chapters

2023

Sanchez, C. A., C. Cheng, D. L. Childers and A. M. York. 2023. Transdisciplinary co-design and implementation of a green urban ecological infrastructure performance monitoring plan. Pp. 207-232 In: Sant'Anna, C. G., I. Mell and L. B. Shenk eds., Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities. Vol 35. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-18332-4_11. ISBN: 978-3-031-18331-7.

2019

Childers, D. L., E. E. Gaiser and L. A. Ogden. 2019. Preface and introduction. In: Childers, D. L., E. E. Gaiser and L. A. Ogden eds., The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190869007.

Gaiser, E. E., L. A. Ogden, D. L. Childers and C. Hopkinson. 2019. Reimagining ecology through an Everglades lens. In: Childers, D. L., E. E. Gaiser and L. A. Ogden eds., The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190869007.

2017

Cordell, D., G. S. Metson, D. M. Iwaniec, T. T. Bui, D. L. Childers, N. Dao, H. T. Dang, J. Davidson, B. Jacobs, S. Kumwenda, T. Morse, V. Nguyen, B. Thole and E. A. Tilley. 2017. Transforming cities: Securing food and clean waterways through phosphorus governance. Pp. 139-154 In: Fam, D., J. Palmer, C. Riedy and C. Mitchell eds., Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainability Outcomes. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138119703.

2016

Childers, D. L. 2016. The socializing of an ecosystem ecologist: Interdisciplinarity from a career spent in the LTER Network.. Pp. 147-154 In: Willig, M. and L. R. Walker eds., Long-Term Ecological Research: Changing the Nature of Scientists. Oxford University Press.

2013

Childers, D. L., Z. Caple, C. Carlielle-Marquet, D. Cordell, V. Gerhart, D. M. Iwaniec and S. White. 2013. Future scenarios for the sustainable use of global phosphorus resources: P is for preferred (P)futures. In: Wyant, K. A., J. R. Corman and J. J. Elser eds., Phosphorus, Food, and Our Futures. Oxford Press.

Day, J. W., F. H. Sklar, J. E. Cable, D. L. Childers, C. Coronado-Molina, S. E. Davis, S. Kelly, C. J. Madden, B. C. Perez, E. Reyes, D. T. Rudnick and M. A. Sutula. 2013. The salinity transition zone between the Southern Everglades and Florida Bay: System functioning and implications for coastal zone management. Pp. Chapter 1 In: Day, J. W. and A. Yanez-Arancibia eds., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management. Vol 4. Texas A&M University Press. Corpus Christi, TX. ISBN: 978-1603447652.

Grimm, N. B., C. L. Redman, C. G. Boone, D. L. Childers, S. L. Harlan and B. L. Turner II. 2013. Viewing the urban socioecological system through a sustainability lens: Lessons and prospects from the Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER Program. Pp. 217-246 In: Singh, S. J., H. Haberl, M. Chertow and M. Mirtl eds., Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Springer.

Metson, G. S., K. A. Wyant and D. L. Childers. 2013. Introduction to P sustainability: P is for philosophy and process. Pp. 1-19 In: Wyant, K. A., J. R. Corman and J. J. Elser eds., Phosphorus, Food, and Our Future. Oxford University Press. New York, NY. ISBN: 9780199916832.

2012

Childers, D. L. 2012. Phoenix, United States. Pp. 242-245 In: Beavis, S. G., M. L. Dougherty and T. Gonzales eds., The Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability: The Americas and Oceania: Assessing Sustainability. Berkshire Publ.

2007

Knapp, A. K., J. M. Briggs, D. L. Childers and O. E. Sala. 2007. Estimating aboveground net primary production in grassland- and herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Pp. 27-48 In: Fahey, T. J. and A. K. Knapp eds., Principles and Standards for Measuring Primary Production (Long-Term Ecological Research Network). Oxford University Press.

2001

Childers, D. L., R. D. Jones, J. Trexler, C. P. Buzelli, S. Daily, A. L. Edwards, E. E. Gaiser, K. Jayachandaran, A. Kenne, D. Lee, J. Meeder, M. K. Nair, J. H. Pechmann, A. Renshaw, J. Richards, M. Rugge, J. L. Scinto, P. Sterling and W. Van Gelder. 2001. Quanitfying the effects of low-level phosphorus additions on unenriched Everglades wetlands with in situ flumes and phosphorus dosing. In: Porter, J. ed., The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook. CRC Press. ISBN: 9780849320262.

2000

Childers, D. L., J. W. Day Jr and H. N. McKellar Jr. 2000. Twenty more years of marsh and estuarine flux studies: Revisiting Nixon (1980). Pp. 391-423 In: Weinstein, M. P. and D. A. Kreeger eds., Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology. Springer Netherlands. xvii, 875. DOI: 10.1007/0-306-47534-0. ISBN: 978-0-7923-6019-3.

1998

Childers, D. L., S. M. Davis, V. H. Rivera-Monroy and R. R. Twilley. 1998. Wetland-water column interactions and the biogeochemistry of estuary-watershed coupling around the Gulf of Mexico. In: Bianchi, T. S., J. R. Pennock and R. R. Twilley eds., Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries. John Wiley & Sons. New York, NY. ISBN: 978-0-471-16174-5.

1994

Day Jr, J. W., C. J. Madden, R. R. Twilley, R. F. Shaw, B. A. McKee, M. J. Dagg, D. L. Childers, R. C. Raynie and L. J. Rouse. 1994. The influence of Atchafalaya River discharge on Fourleague Bay, Louisiana (USA). Pp. 151-160 In: Dyer, K. R. and R. J. Orth eds., Changes in Fluxes in Estuaries: Implications from Science to Management. Olsen & Olsen. Denmark. ISBN: 87-85215-22-8.

Posters

2019

Sanchez, C. A., C. Cheng, D. L. Childers and A. M. York. 2019. Designing and implementing ecological monitoring of Urban Ecological Infrastructure (UEI): A case-study. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2018

Kubicki, S., D. L. Childers and C. A. Sanchez. 2018. Seasonal and spatial patterns of net aquatic primary productivity in an aridland constructed treatment wetland. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2017

Clem, B. L., D. L. Childers and C. A. Sanchez. 2017. Soil nutrient and organic matter patterns in an aridland constructed treatment wetland. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Central-Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 13 January 2017, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Handler, A., A. Suchy, N. B. Grimm, M. M. Palta, D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2017. Nitrate attenuation pathways and capacity in urban wetlands of Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Central-Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2016

Handler, A., A. Suchy, N. B. Grimm, M. M. Palta, D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2016. Chemical and hydrologic connectivity of surface and porewater in an urban accidental wetland, with implications for nitrogen removal. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

MacNeille, B., D. L. Childers and F. Garcia-Pichel. 2016. Microbial biodiversity in Phoenix's public phyllosphere. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.

Ramos, J. and D. L. Childers. 2016. Drying and rewetting periods trigger high pulses of greenhouse gases in wetland mesocosms from Tres Rios permanently flooded constructed treatment wetland. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 January 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Sanchez, C. A., N. A. Weller, D. L. Childers, L. J. Turnbull and R. Upham. 2016. The effects of macrophyte productivity and community composition on the water and nutrient budgets of an aridland constructed treatment wetland. Poster presented at the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Eighteenth Annual All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 15 Januar 2016, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2015

Handler, A., A. Suchy, N. B. Grimm, M. M. Palta and D. L. Childers. 2015. Hydrologic and chemical connectivity between surface and soils in an urban accidental wetland: Implications for nitrogen removal. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Handler, A. M., A. K. Suchy, N. B. Grimm, M. M. Palta, D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2015. Hydrologic and chemical connectivity in urban accidental wetlands: Implications for nitrate removal. Poster presented at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

MacNeille, B. and D. L. Childers. 2015. Exploring Phoenix’s urban phyllosphere. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Ramos, J., P. Susanto and D. L. Childers. 2015. A new vegetation chamber to investigate the role of macrophytes in the CH4 and N2O gas fluxes from the Tres Rios constructed wetland in Phoenix, AZ. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Suchy, A. K., D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2015. Exploring the role of soil characteristics and plant traits as drivers denitrification in “accidental” urban wetlands in Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

Suchy, A., M. M. Palta, D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2015. Small- and large-scale drivers of denitrification patterns in “accidental” urban wetlands in Phoenix, Arizona. Poster presented at the Seventeenth Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 16 January 2015, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2014

Carothers, W., C. Wise and D. Childers. 2014. How do people perceive waste in the Salt River?. Poster presented at the Decision Center for a Desert City Annual Poster Symposium, April 28, 2014, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Ramos, J., E. J. Chapman and D. L. Childers. 2014. Spatial and temporal variability of annual greenhouse gas fluxes from a constructed wetland in an arid region. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, January 17, 2014, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2013

Chapman, E. and D. L. Childers. 2013. Energy content and greenhouse gas emissions across a chronosequence of boreal peatlands. Poster presented at the Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 4-9 August 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (link )

Loza Morales, D. E., D. L. Childers, A. Evans, A. Evans, C. A. Sanchez and N. Weller. 2013. Macropyte decomposition rates in the Tres Rios constructed treatment wetland: Preliminary results. Poster presented at the 11 January 2013, 15th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting 2013, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Ramos, J., E. J. Chapman, N. A. Weller and D. L. Childers. 2013. Trace gas fluxes from the Tres Rios wetllands project in Phoenix, AZ. Poster presented at the 11 January 2013, 15th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting 2013, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Sanchez, C. A., D. L. Childers, L. J. Turnbull and N. A. Weller. 2013. The contribution of evapotranspiration to the annual water budget of an aridland urban wastewater treatment wetland. Poster presented at the 11 January 2013, 15th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting 2013, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

Weller, N. A., D. L. Childers and L. J. Turnbull. 2013. Plant community changes and related nutrient retention within an aridland constructed wastewater treatment wetland. Poster presented at the 11 January 2013, 15th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting 2013, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2012

Sanchez, C. A., D. L. Childers, L. J. Turnbull, B. P. Warner and N. A. Weller. 2012. The contribution of evapotranspiration and evaporation to the water budget of a treatment wetland in Phoenix, AZ, USA. Poster presented at 13 January 2012 CAP LTER 14th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Weller, N. A., L. J. Turnbull and D. L. Childers. 2012. The influence of storm characteristics and catchment structure on particulate organic matter transport in an arid city. Poster presented at 13 January 2012 CAP LTER 14th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

2011

Grimm, N. B., D. L. Childers, S. R. Earl, R. L. Hale and L. J. Turnbull. 2011. The dynamics of water in arid cities, Part III: Stormwater-mediated transport and retention of dissolved nutrients in urban catchments: Effects of infrastructure design, catchment size, and storm characteristics. Poster presented at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Sanchez, C. A., D. L. Childers and L. J. Turnbull. 2011. The contribution of evapotranspiration and evaporation to the water budget of a treatment wetland in Phoenix, AZ, USA. Poster presented at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Turnbull, L. J., D. L. Childers, R. L. Hale, E. R. Vivoni, S. R. Earl and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Ecosystem structure and hydrologic function of urban deserts. Poster presented at the 12-13 January 2011 CAP LTER 13th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. (link )

Warner, B. P., D. L. Childers and L. J. Turnbull. 2011. Hydrology versus ecology: The effectiveness of constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in a semi-arid climate. Tempe, AZ. Poster presented at the 12-13 January 2011 CAP LTER 13th Annual Poster Symposium and All Scientist Meeting, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University.

Weller, N. A., L. J. Turnbull and D. L. Childers. 2011. The influence of storm characteristics and catchment structure on particulate organic matter transport in an arid city. Poster presented at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

2010

Turnbull, L. J., D. L. Childers, R. L. Hale and N. B. Grimm. 2010. Conceptualizing urban ecohydrological interactions and feedbacks. Poster presented at the January 14, 2010 12th Annual Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Poster Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

2009

Turnbull, L. J. and D. L. Childers. 2009. Arid urban ecohydrology over multiple spatial scales. Estes Park, CO. Poster presented at 14-16 September 20009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Integrating Science and Society in a World of Constant Change.

Presentations

2017

Childers, D. L. 2017. Long term urban ecological change: Slow-rates, lags, and legacies. Presentation at the Annual Meeting Portland ESA 2017, August 6-11, 2017, Portland, OR. (link )

McHale, M. R., D. L. Childers, S. T. Pickett, M. L. Cadenasso, S. Beck, D. N. Bunn, L. Ebersohn, W. Twine and L. Swemmer. 2017. Human diversity and urbanization in South Africa: Democratizing ecosystem service assessments for sustainable development. Presentation at the Annual Meeting Portland ESA 2017, August 6-11, 2017, Portland, OR. (link )

2016

Childers, D. L. and N. B. Grimm. 2016. A research framework for exploring urban ecology and sustainability that is based on "design with nature" infrastructure. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting 2016: Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene, 7-12 August 2016, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (link )

Ramos, J. and D. L. Childers. 2016. Experimental drying and re-flooding hydrological regimes trigger high and low pulses of greenhouse gas fluxes in mesocosms from a permanently-flooded constructed treated wetland. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting 2016: Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene, 7-12 August 2016, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (link )

Suchy, A., M. M. Palta, D. L. Childers and J. C. Stromberg. 2016. Patterns and predictors of denitrification potentials in "accidental" urban wetlands in Phoenix, Arizona. Presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting 2016: Novel Ecosystems in the Anthropocene, 7-12 August 2016, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (link )

2015

Childers, D. L., P. Bois, C. A. Sanchez, D. Tallman and N. A. Weller. 2015. Turquoise infrastructure in cities: How a constructed treatment wetland provides key urban ecosystem services in Phoenix, AZ. Presentation at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

Grove, J. M., R. Roy Chowdhury, D. L. Childers, L. A. Ogden, A. Felson and E. Svendsen. 2015. Links between science, design and decision making in urban ecology: Best practice and its future refinement. Presentation at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

Pickett, S. T., D. L. Childers, M. L. Cadenasso, M. J. McDonnell and W. Zhou. 2015. The evolution and future of urban ecological science. Presentation at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

Ramos Jr, J., P. Susanto and D. L. Childers. 2015. A new vegetation chamber to investigate the role of macrophytes in the CH4 and N2O gas fluxes from constructed wetland in Phoenix, AZ. Presentation at the Ecological Science at the Frontier: Celebrating the ESA Centennial 1915-2015, 9-14 August 2015, Baltimore, Maryland. (link )

2014

Childers, D. L., S. T. Pickett and M. J. Davidson. 2014. Moving from the ecology of cities to ecology for cities: Integrating urban ecology, design, and decision-making for urban sustainability. Presentation at the From Oceans to Mountains, 99th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 10-15 August 2014, Sacramento, California. (link )

2013

Childers, D. L., J. Hannan, J. Ramos, C. A. Sanchez, L. J. Turnbull and N. A. Weller. 2013. When plant-mediated water flows increase biogeochemical efficiency in an aridland urban treatment wetland, and pleasantly surprise the engineers. Presentation at the Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 4-9 August 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (link )

Childers, D. L., J. Hannan, C. A. Sanchez, L. J. Turnbull and N. A. Weller. 2013. A constructed treatment wetland provides key urban ecosystem services even in a hot, dry climate. Presentation at the Sustainable Pathways: Learning from the Past and Shaping the Future, 98th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 4-9 August 2013, Minneapolis, Minnesota. (link )

2012

Childers, D. L. 2012. Ecosystem services and educational opportunities provided by an aridland wetland urban treatment wetland in Phoenix AZ. Invited presentation at the 3-8 June 2012, 9th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference: Wetlands in a Complex World, Orlando, FL.

Childers, D. L. 2012. Is phosphorus the Rodney Dangerfield of sustainability challenges?. Plenary presentation at the 15-16 February 2012 3rd University of Florida Water Institute Symposium, Gainesville, FL.

Childers, D. L., N. B. Grimm and B. L. Ruddell. 2012. Sustainability water demands to urban ecosystems in the southwestern United States. Symposium organizers, 9 August 2012, 97th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, OR.

Sanchez, C. A., D. L. Childers, L. J. Turnbull, B. P. Warner and N. A. Weller. 2012. The contribution of evapotranspiration to the water budget of an aridland urban treatment wetland. Presentation at the 7 June 2012 INTECOL International Wetlands Conference, Orlando, FL.

2011

Childers, D. L., S. R. Earl, N. B. Grimm, B. L. Ruddell, L. J. Turnbull and E. R. Vivoni. 2011. The dynamics of water in arid cities, Part I: Overview of the Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER research at the water-climate nexus. Presentation at th 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Childers, D. L., L. J. Turnbull, S. R. Earl and N. B. Grimm. 2011. Multi-scalar effects of urban stormwater infrastructure in a semi-arid urban catchment: Hydrologic responses. Presentation at the 2011 Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, San Juan, PR.

Collins, S. L., G. P. Robertson, D. R. Foster and D. L. Childers. 2011. Emergence and future role of long-term socio-ecological research for earth stewardship. Presentation at the SYMP 8 - Thirty Years of Earth Stewardship Research: Long-Term Matters at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Robertson, G. P., D. R. Foster, C. G. Boone, D. L. Childers and S. E. Hobbie. 2011. SYMP 8 -- Thirty years of earth stewardship research: Long-term matters. Symposium organized at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Turnbull, L. J., D. L. Childers, S. R. Earl, N. B. Grimm and R. L. Hale. 2011. The dynamics of water in arid cities, Part II: Effects of stormwater infrastructure on dissolved and particle-bound nutrient transport across multiple spatial scales. Presentation at the 7-12 August 2011 96th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Austin, TX.

Turnbull, L. J., D. L. Childers, N. B. Grimm, S. R. Earl, R. L. Hale, A. Elrod and N. A. Weller. 2011. Multi-scalar effects of urban infrastructure in a semi-arid urban catchment: Nutrient retention and transport. Presentation at the 2011 Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, San Juan, PR.

Turnbull, L. J., R. L. Hale, S. R. Earl, N. B. Grimm and D. L. Childers. 2011. Effects of urban stormwater infrastructure on frequency, magnitude and scale characteristics of runoff, and their implications for the transport of particulate material in arid catchments. Presentation at the 2011 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

2009

Childers, D. L. 2009. Everglades environmental history: Integrating ecological and historical approaches. Copenhagen, Denmark. Presentation at the World Congress on Environmental History.

Childers, D. L. 2009. How internal processes affect resilience to state change in high-disturbance wetland ecosystems. Maun, Botwsana. Presentation at the International Conference on Flood Pulsed Wetlands.

Childers, D. L. 2009. Indirect ecosystem services of water in aridland cities. Athens,GA. Invited presentation at the Ecological Society of America Millenium Conference.

Grove, M., N. B. Grimm, P. M. Groffman, L. Band, S. Gregory, S. T. Pickett, D. L. Childers and M. Pons. 2009. Metrology for aquatic urban systems: Comparisons of the French and US approach. Estes Park, CO. Working group organizer report presented at 14-16 September 2009 LTER All Scientist Meeting, Integrating Science and Society in a World of Constant Change.

Turnbull, L. J. and D. L. Childers. 2009. A theoretical approach to urban ecohydrology: Incorporating the role of humans as engineers of ecosystem change. Presentation at the 4-8 October 2009 AGU Chapman Conference on Examining Ecohydrological Feedbacks of Landscape Change Along Elevation Gradients in Semiarid Regions, Boise and Sun Valley, Idaho, USA.

2006

Childers, D. L. 2006. Coupling human and natural interactions in the dynamic coastal landscape of the Florida Coastal Everglades. Keynote presentation at the January 19, 2006 8th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium, Tempe, AZ.

2000

Grimm, N. B., L. Band and D. L. Childers. 2000. Human modifications of hydrologic cycles: Effects on nutrient dynamics at local and regional scales. Workshop presented at 2-4 August 2000, Long-Term Ecological Research: Unifying Principles and Global Applications, LTER All Scientists Meeting, Snowbird, UT.

Reports

2017

Larson, K., R. Andrade, A. York, D. Childers, P. Coseo, S. Earl, M. Ehlenz, N. Grimm, S. Hall, S. Harlan, D. Hondula, S. Lerman, D. Pfeiffer, J. Ripplinger, V. K. Smith, P. Warren, M. Watkins, D. White, S. Wittlinger, M. Wright and A. Wutich. 2017. The Phoenix Area Social Survey IV: Linking Social and Biophysical Dynamics in Urban Neighborhoods. (link )