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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

Weller, Donald E. ; Baker, Matthew ; Jordan, Thomas E. (2011). Effects of riparian buffers on nitrate concentrations in watershed discharges: new models and management implications . Ecological Applications, 21 , 1679-1695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/10-0789.1
(2010). Small Watershed Monitoring Designs: A Report from the Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee .
(2010). Geoadditive regression modeling of stream biological condition<br/> . Department of Statistics, University of Munich .
Baker, Matthew E. ; King, Ryan S. (2010). A new method for detecting and interpreting biodiversity and ecological community thresholds . Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 1 (1) , 25-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2009.00007.x
Canning-Clode, João ; Maloney, Kelly O. ; McMahon, Sean M. ; Wahl, Martin. (2010). Expanded view of the local-regional richness relationship by incorporating functional richness and time: a large-scale perspective . Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19 (6) , 875-885. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00560.x
Carey, M. P. ; Maloney, Kelly O. ; Chipps, S. R. ; Wahl, D. H. (2010). Effects of littoral habitat complexity and sunfish composition on fish production. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 19 (3) , 466-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0633.2010.00433.x
King, Ryan S. ; Baker, Matthew E. (2010). Considerations for analyzing ecological community thresholds in response to anthropogenic environmental gradients . Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 29 (3) , 998-1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/09-144.1
Li, X. ; King, Ryan S. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Hines, Anson H. (2010). Using landscape analysis to explore ecological linkages between watersheds and estuaries . Ecological complexity and ecological vision (122-125) Higher Education Press .
Li, Xuyong ; Weller, Donald E. ; Jordan, Thomas E. (2010). Watershed model calibration using multi-objective optimization and multi-site averaging . Journal of Hydrology, 380 (3-4) , 277-288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.11.003
Parker, John D. ; Richie, Lauren J. ; Lind, Eric ; Maloney, Kelly O. (2010). Land use history alters the relationship between native and exotic plants: the rich don't always get richer . Biological Invasions, 12 (6) , 1557-1571. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-009-9568-3
Baker, Matthew E. ; Wiley, Michael J. (2009). Multiscale control of flooding and riparian-forest composition in Lower Michigan, USA . Ecology, 90 (1) , 145-159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1242.1
Maloney, Kelly O. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Russell, Marc J. ; Hothorn, Torsten. (2009). Classifying the biological condition of small streams: an example using benthic macroinvertebrates . Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 28 (4) , 869-884. http://dx.doi.org/10.1899/08-142.1
(2008). Landscape patterns, nutrient discharges, and biota of the Rhode River estuary and its watershed: Contribution of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to the Pilot Integrated Ecosystem Assessment . Smithsonian Environmental Research Center .
Boomer, K. B. ; Bedford, B. (2008). Groundwater-induced redox-gradients control soil properties and phosphorus availability across four headwater wetlands, New York, USA . Biogeochemistry, 90 (3) , 259-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9251-2
Boomer, K. B. ; Weller, Donald E. ; Jordan, Thomas E. (2008). Empirical models based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation fail to predict sediment discharges from Chesapeake Bay catchments . Journal of Environmental Quality, 37 , 79-89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10533-008-9212-9

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