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A ground-breaking urban ecology project, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study investigates the ecological, cultural, and economic forces that shape the environmental quality of urbanized areas.
Mosquito-borne diseases once considered rural, such as malaria and West Nile virus, are increasingly showing up in cities, challenging public health responses and management strategies.
Why do the majority of human infectious diseases originate from wildlife? What distinguishes the small fraction of species that carry and transmit zoonoses to humans?
The widespread use of novel contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, have unknown consequences for stream ecosystems.
While the majority of our work centers on zoonotic diseases, ongoing collaborations explore the ecology of diseases found only in wildlife.
The littoral or near-shore zone of a lake can be a small portion of lake area, but it is hugely important to lake food webs. The high productivity and complex structure in this habitat supports abundant invertebrate populations and thereby entire food chains up to the largest fishes in the lake and the people who catch those fishes.
Lake trout are an important recreational fishery species in the northern United States and Canada. Lake trout grow to large sizes, and unfished populations can have many large fish. Yet the slow growth and maturation rates of this species mean that maintaining desirable aspects of population structure can be a challenge for fishery managers.
Zoonotic diseases are distributed across space, time, and species. Our lab focuses on answering outstanding 'who, what, where' questions about zoonotic diseases
Green infrastructure (GI) is usually assumed to be a benefit everywhere and for everybody in a city. Is this assumption correct? Or are there differences in where and who is served or burdened by GI? Our group of urban ecologists, social scientists, GIS analysts, and environmental historians is working together to discover how to best improve the equity of GI through policy and practice.
Human activities are changing the water chemistry of many streams and rivers in the Eastern U.S., with consequences for water supplies and aquatic life.
Primary interests in this area are focused on the utilization of ecosystem engineering species; applying lessons learnt from the study of Nature's engineers to human environmental engineering; and the promotion and development of the discipline and practice of ecological engineering.
In addition to the basic monitoring network, HRECOS operates nine sediment monitoring stations located on the Hudson River and its tributaries.