Publications
The Institute communicates its scientific and educational information in a number of ways. One major outlet is peer-reviewed publications and reports. Cary Institute staff regularly publish in the best-rated journals in their respective fields.
] , “Ecosystem disturbance, biodiversity loss, and human infectious disease”, in E. Chivian and A. Bernstein (eds.). Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity, 2008.
, “Ecosystem engineers”, in Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Online, 2008.
, “Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes”, in G. M. Lovett, C. G. Jones, M. G. Turner, and K. C. Weathers (eds.). Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes, 2005, p. 1-4.
, “Ecosystem processes: A link between species and landscape diversity”, in M. Shachak, J. Gosz, S. T. A. Pickett, and A. Perevolotsky (eds.). Biodiversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework, 2004, p. 220-232.
, “An ecosystem service of biodiversity – the protection of human health against infectious disease”, in New Directions in Conservation Medicine, by A. Aguirre, R.S. Ostfeld, and P. Daszak, eds., 2012.
, “Ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes”, in M. Schnepf and C. Cox (eds.). Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality: Strengthening the Science Base, 2007, p. 3-17.
, “Ecosystem-level consequences of management options”, in T. W. Hoekstra and M. Shachak (eds.). Arid Lands Management: Toward Ecological Sustainability, 1999, p. 97-116.
, “Ecosystems: energetics and biogeochemistry.”, in W. J. Kress and G. Barrett (eds.). A New Century of Biology, 2001, p. 53-88.
, “Ecosystems in a Heterogeneous World”, in K. C. Weathers, D. L. Strayer and G. E. Likens (eds.). Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, 2012, p. 191-213.
, “Ectomycorrhizae and trees: implications for above-ground herbivory”, in P. Barbosa, V. A. Krischik, and C. G. Jones (eds.). Microbial Mediation of Plant-Herbivore Interactions, 1991, p. 65-103.
, “Educating about infectious disease ecology”, in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner (eds.). Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems, 2008, p. 448-468.
, “Effect of boundaries and edges on flux of nutrients, detritus, and organisms”, in G. A. Polis, M. E. Power, and G. Huxel (eds.). Food Webs at the Landscape Level, 2004, p. 154-168.
, “The effects of ecosystem restoration on nitrogen processing in an urban mid-Atlantic Piedmont stream”, in K. G. Renard, S. A. McElroy, W. J. Gburek, E. H. Canfield, and R. L. Scott (eds.). First Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds, October 2003., 2004, p. 536-541.
, “Effects of forest loss on soil water table in the temperate landscape in southern Chile”, in M. J. Pacha, S. Luque, L. Galetto, and L. Iverson (eds.) Understanding Biodiversity Loss: An Overview of Forest Fragmentation in South America, 2007, p. 106-114.
, “Effects of habitat patchiness on population dynamics: a modelling approach”, in D. R. McCullough and R. H. Barrett (eds.). Wildlife 2001: Populations, 1992, p. 851-863.
, “Effects of lake and watershed liming on light attenuation, thermal stratification and phytoplankton production”, in H. Olem, (ed.). International Lake and Watershed Liming Practices, 1991, p. 129-144.
, “Effects of ozone on interactions among plants, consumers and decomposers”, in R. G. Alscher, and A. R. Wellburn (eds.). Plant Responses to the Gaseous Environment, 1994, p. 339-363.
, “Effects of pathogens on terrestrial ecosystem function”, in R. S. Ostfeld, F. Keesing, and V. Eviner (eds.). Infectious Disease Ecology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems, 2008, p. 260-283.
, “Einfluss von Kontext und Lerntätigkeit auf das Interesse von Schülerinnen und Schülern der 11. Jahrgangsstufe am Thema Molekulargenetik [The influence of context and learning activity on students’ interest in molecular genetics]”, in A. Bauer, H. Bayrhuber, A. Bittner, and others. Entwicklung von Wissen und Kompetenzen im Biologieunterricht: Internationale Tagung der Sektion Biologiedidaktik im VdBiol - Berlin, 14. bis., 2003, p. 163-166.
, “El sistema de cosecha con "retención variable": una alternativa de manejo para conciliar los objetivos de conservación y producción en los bosques nativos chilenos”, in C. Donoso and A. Lara (eds.). Silvicultura de los bosques nativos de Chile, 1999, p. 69-94.
, “Element Cycling”, in K. C. Weathers, D. L. Strayer and G. E. Likens (eds.). Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, 2012, p. 97-108.
, “Elemental complexation by dissolved organic matter in lakes: Implications for Fe speciation and the bioavailability of Fe and P”, in S. E. G. Findlay and R. L. Sinsabaugh (eds.). Aquatic Ecosystems: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter, 2003, p. 185-214.
, “Elms (Ulmus sp.)”, in Y. P. S. Bajaj (ed.). Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, Volume I: Trees, 1986, p. 326-340.
, “Emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems”, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences – The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology, vol. 1223, 2011, p. 58-68.
, “Endangered Freshwater Invertebrates”, in S. A. Levin (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 2nd ed., vol. 3, Waltham, MA: , 2013, p. 176-187.