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Database Remote Sensing GIS Applications

Modeling: Initial Structure and Work on GIS (MT1_4 ) Info

Disturbance

Baseline Data for a Burned Area in South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona (203) Info

Effects of River Modification on the Soil Seed Bank of the Salt River, Arizona: a case study of an arid region river (113) Info

General Model of Urban Fire Ecology (DI_15 ) Info

Geosciences

Century-scale Channel Change (GE1_5 ) Info

Channel Morphology and Instability along the Urban Fringe (85) Info

Characterization of Microclimates Created by Landscape Design Styles in North Desert Village (249) Info

Decade-Scale Change by Channel Engineering: The Rio Salado (Tempe Town Lake) Project - Hydrogeologic Component (GE_30 ) Info

Filter Pack Sampler Design for Atmospheric Nitrogen Measurement and Disposition (87) Info

Geophysical, Geological, and geomorphic constraints on ground subsidence in piedmonts of the greater Phoenix area (GE_55 ) Info

High-resolution landcover classification for Phoenix (128) Info

Historic Records of Climate in Valley (GE_16 ) Info

Prediction Model of the Presence of Bedrock Pediments Vs. Alluvial Slopes (AP_38 ) Info

Quaternary Geomorphology Study and Data Synthesis (GE2,3_6 ) Info

Salt River Paleo-Geomorphology (194) Info

Urban heat island (264) Info

Water chemistry of lakes and rivers following winter storm events (111) Info

Human Environment Feedbacks

A River Used to Run Through It: Water Use and Flooding in Phoenix (HU_40 ) Info

An Ethnohydrologic Evaluation of Water Quality and Quantity in CAP (233) Info

Ecological Feedbacks Group (HU_56 ) Info

Economic Analysis, Open Space (HU_18 ) Info

Ecosystem services (199) Info

Ground Arthropod Diversity at North Desert Village (239) Info

Knowledge, values and environmental decision making (259) Info

Microbial degradation of non-point carbon deposition in urban soil (312) Info

Modeling fluxes of water and salt through the urban infrastructure (234) Info

Neighborhood ecosystem project (HU_75) Info

Walkability, park access and environmental justice in two Phoenix neighborhoods (255) Info

Land Use Changes

An Integrated Land-Use Decision-Making Model for Rapidly Urbanizing Floodplains of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area (LU_54 ) Info

Change of Fluvial landscape in urban watershed (LU_57) Info

City of Phoenix and Arizona State University GPS Data Collection Pilot Study (LU_72) Info

Effects of Urbanization on the Landscape Pattern and Ecosystem Processes in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region: A Multiple-Scale Study (LU_79) Info

Gender and Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Postindustrial Urban Labor Markets: A Spatial and Sectoral Analysis of Employment Changes (LU_42 ) Info

Hohokam Canals as Multi-Use Facilities (LU_17 ) Info

Land Use Effects on Temperature and Humidity along a Urban-Rural Transect Gradient (LU_49 ) Info

Modeling Urban Impervious Surface Areas in Relation to Urban Heat Island Effects (156) Info

Multiobjective Reserve Design for Open Space in the Northwest Phoenix Metropolitan Area (LU_67) Info

Natural Ecosystem Responses to Urbanization Effects Along an Urban - Rural Gradient (LU_61) Info

Points, patches and regions: Scaling soil biogeochemical patterns in an urbanized arid ecosystem (MT122) Info

Salt River Restoration (134) Info

Spatial/Temporal Change of Climate/Air Quality in Relation to Urban Fringe Development (LU_37 ) Info

Urban Fringe Morphology (LU9_3 ) Info

Modeling

Belowground Nutrient Pools and Dynamics in Xeriscaped Yards (250) Info

CO2 levels, meteorological conditions, human activity, and ecosystem processes in urban Phoenix (336) Info

Dynamics of Water Supply and Delivery (148) Info

Water and Salt Flux Modeling: Integration of LTER and DCDC Models (295) Info

Nutrients

Atmosphere-Biosphere Exchange in the CAP-LTER Study Area (169) Info

Canal Study (NU_35 ) Info

Dissolved organic carbon dynamics in an urban desert stream ecosystem (NU_80) Info

Exploring the effects of landscape treatment on soil nutrient cycling at the North Desert Village and across the CAP-LTER (166) Info

Inorganic Nutrient Dynamics in the Lower Indian Bend Wash watershed (205) Info

Nitrogen trace gas emission in urban patches (NU_73) Info

Nutrient Deposition Measurements in the CAP-LTER Study Area (170) Info

Riparian Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: Influences of Spatial Heterogeneity and Hydrologic Vectors (335) Info

Runoff and throughfall measurements in an urban and desert remnant habitat (131) Info

Stormwater transport of nutrients and metals (NU_74) Info

Urban Lakes: Recipient Systems for Nutrients and Contaminants (NU_24 ) Info

Urban Storm Runoff (NU_28 ) Info

Using Leaves as Samplers to Determine the Spatial Distribution of Atmospheric Particles (NU_53 ) Info

Organic Matter

Soil CO2 Flux and Enzyme Activity under Two Patch Type Conversions (OM_50 ) Info

Populations

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal diversity and functioning in urban desert remnants and surround deserts (300) Info

Backyard Bird Survey (PO_33 ) Info

Bruchid Beetle Study (PO_36 ) Info

Comparisons between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community in the Phoenix metropolitan area and the surrounding desert (PO_81) Info

Ecological and Social Interactions in Urban Parks (PP_52 ) Info

Ecophysical and behavioral adaptations of birds to rapid urbanization of a desert environment (324) Info

Effects of Urban Horticulture on Insect Pollinator Community Structure (PO_26 ) Info

LTER TRENDS Population and Economy, 1790-1960 (196) Info

Mycorrhizae in an experimental urban landscaped site (125) Info

Plant Flowering Phenology in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area (178) Info

Plant Species Richness Patterns in the CAP LTER Area (PO_47 ) Info

Plant Survey of Current Vegetation (PO13+_11 ) Info

Quantitative modeling of plant species counts for efficient prediction (326) Info

Scorpions in Urban Environments (PO_25 ) Info

Spatial interpolation of avian counts (127) Info

The Effects of Urbanization on Reproduction in Birds (PO_46 ) Info

Transect Bird Survey with Data Synthesis (PO12_12 ) Info

Trophic structure and dynamics experiment (PO_62) Info

Urban bird dynamics: the credit card theory (256) Info

Urban Raptor Project (188) Info

Vertebrate Species Composition of Remnant Desert Islands within Urban Phoenix (PO_23 ) Info

Primary Production

A high-resolution urban forest classification system for Phoenix (PP_67) Info

Assessments of urban tree health in the Phoenix urban ecosystem (155) Info

Comparison Among Residential Patch Transition Types; Before-After (OM_14) Info

Effects of Surface Mulches on Abiotic Processes of Drip-Irrigated Xeric Landscapes (86) Info

Effects of Urban Ground Cover on Microclimate and Landscape Plant Performance (PP_48 ) Info

Landscape Water Use Efficiency (PP_51 ) Info


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