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Dan Childers
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe AZ 85287
(480) 965-2320
dan.childers@asu.edu
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Dr. Childers' research focuses on wetland ecosystem ecology, in particular questions about controls on primary production, biogeochemical cycling, and soil dynamics. He has worked in both forested and herbaceous wetland ecosystems, and in many different freshwater and estuarine systems around the world. He led the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research project from its inception in 2000 until 2008. Dr. Childers teaches the course, Sustainable World. Select PublicationsChilders, D. L., J. N. Boyer, S. E. Davis III, C. J. Madden, D. T. Rudnick, and F. H. Sklar. 2006. Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic "upside down" estuaries of the Florida Everglades. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51(1, part 2):602-616.
Childers, D. L., D. Iwaniec, D. Rondeau, G. Rubio, E. Verdon, and C. Madden. In review. Primary productivity in Everglades marshes demonstrates the sensitivity of oligotrophic ecosystems to environmental drivers. Ecological Applications.
Childers, D. L. 2001. A review of Modelling for All Scales - An Introduction to System Simulation, by Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Odum. The Quarterly Review of Biology 76(2):217-218.
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