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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Understanding Ecosystems for a Sustainable Future

Ecological Modeling

Principal Investigator

Donald Weller

wellerd@si.edu

443-482-2214

Specialty

Quantitative Ecologist

Brief Resume

Publications

Patrick, Christopher J. (2013). The effect of shredder community composition on the production and quality of fine particulate organic matter . Freshwater Science, 32 (3) , 1026-1035. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/12-090.1
Patrick, Christopher J. ; Fernandez, Dylan H. (2013). The β-richness of two detritivore caddisflies affects fine organic matter export . Oecologia, 172 , 1105-1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-012-2550-2
Bain, Daniel J. ; Green, Mark B. ; Campbell, John L. ; Chamblee, John F. ; Chaoka, Sayo ; Fraterrigo, Jennifer M. ; Kaushal, Sujay S. ; Martin, Sherry L. ; Jordan, Thomas E. ; Parolari, Anthony J. ; Sobczak, William V. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Wolheim, Wilfred M. ; Boose, Emery R. ; Duncan, Jonathan M. ; Gettel, Gretchen M. ; Hall, Brian R. ; Kumar, Praveen ; Thompson, Jonathan R. ; Vose, James M. ; Elliott, Emily M. ; Leigh, David S. (2012). Legacy Effects in Material Flux: Structural Catchmen Changes Predate Long-Term Studies . Bioscience, 62 (6) , 575-584. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.6.8
Maloney, Kelly O. ; Schmid, Matthias ; Weller, Donald E. (2012). Applying additive modelling and gradient boosting to assess the effects of watershed and reach characteristics on riverine assemblages . Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3 (1) , 116-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00124.x
Osmond, D. L. ; Brooks, R. ; Yetter, S. ; Carline, R. ; Boomer, Kathy ; Armstrong, Ann ; Stedman, R. ; Meals, D. W. ; Jennings, G. D. (2012). Spring Creek Watershed, Pennsylvania: National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project . How to Build Better Agricultural Conservation Programs to Protect Water Quality: The National Institute of Food and Agriculture–Conservation Effects Assessment Project Experience (342-357) Soil and Water Conservation Society .
Tian, Di ; Xuyong, Li ; Weller, Donald E. (2012). The responses of hydrological indicators to watershed characteristics . Acta Ecologica Sinica, 32 (1) , 27-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5846/stxb201011121624
(2011). Review of the LimnoTech Report, Comparison of Load Estimates for Cultivated Cropland in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed' . Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc .
(2011). Evaluation of the Effectiveness of SAV Restoration Approaches in the Chesapeake Bay . Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc. .
Brown, Bryan L. ; Swan, Christopher M. ; Auerbach, Daniel A. ; Campbell Grant, Evan H. ; Hitt, Nathaniel P. ; Maloney, Kelly O. ; Patrick, Christopher. (2011). Metacommunity theory as a multispecies, multiscale framework for studying the influence of river network structure on riverine communities and ecosystems . Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 30 (1) , 310-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/10-129.1
King, Ryan S. ; Baker, Matthew E. ; Kazyak, Paul F. ; Weller, Donald E. (2011). How novel is too novel? Stream community thresholds at exceptionally low levels of catchment urbanization . Ecological Applications, 21 (5) , 1659-1678. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/10-1357.1
Maloney, Kelly O. ; Munguia, Pablo. (2011). Distance decay of similarity in temperate aquatic communities: effects of environmental transition zones, distance measure, and life histories . Ecography, 34 (2) , 287-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06518.x
Maloney, Kelly O. ; Munguia, Pablo ; Mitchell, Richard M. (2011). Anthropogenic disturbance and landscape patterns affect diversity patterns of aquatic benthic macroinvertebrates . Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 30 (1) , 284-295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/09-112.1
Maloney, Kelly O. ; Weller, Donald E. (2011). Anthropogenic disturbance and streams: land use and land-use change affect stream ecosystems via multiple pathways . Freshwater Biology, 56 (3) , 611-626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02522.x
Schmid, Matthias ; Hothorn, Torsten ; Maloney, Kelly O. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Potapov, Sergej. (2011). Geoadditive regression modeling of stream biological condition . Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 18 (4) , 709-733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10651-010-0158-4
Tian, D. ; Li, X. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Bai, Z. (2011). Impacts of land use and impervious surface on stream flow metrics in Chesapeake Bay watershed . Journal of Natural Resources (Chinese), 26 , 1012-1020.

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