Stephen R. Carpenter

Global Consequences of Land Use

Land use has generally been considered a local environmental issue, but it is becoming a force of global importance. Worldwide changes to forests, farmlands, waterways, and air ...

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

Crossing the boundaries in global sustainability The planetary boundary (PB) concept, introduced in 2009, aimed to define the environmental limits within which humanity can safe...

Global Change and Freshwater Ecosystems

Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They are used to gain ecologica...

Fisheries Management to Reduce Contaminant Consumption

Journal Article Fisheries Management to Reduce Contaminant Consumption: Selective stocking can decrease PCB levels in the Lake Michigan fish consumed by people Get access Craig ...

Solutions for a cultivated planet

Trading carbon for food: Global comparison of carbon stocks vs. crop yields on agricultural land

Expanding croplands to meet the needs of a growing population, changing diets, and biofuel production comes at the cost of reduced carbon stocks in natural vegetation and soils....

Regulation of Lake Primary Productivity by Food Web Structure

We performed whole—lake manipulations of fish populations to test the hypothesis that higher trophic levels regulate zooplankton and phytoplankton community structure, biomass, ...