Donald Weller

Publications

• Submersed aquatic vegetation in chesapeake bay: Sentinel species in a changing world
• Land Use and Salinity Drive Changes in SAV Abundance and Community Composition
• Using multiple watershed models to assess the water quality impacts of alternate land development scenarios for a small community
• Linking the Abundance of Estuarine Fish and Crustaceans in Nearshore Waters to Shoreline Hardening and Land Cover
• Effects of Local Watershed Land Use on Water Quality in Mid-Atlantic Coastal Bays and Subestuaries of the Chesapeake Bay
• Land use affects streams via multiple pathways
• Scale of analysis drives the observed ratio of spatial to non-spatial variance in microbial water quality: insights from two decades of citizen science data
• Precipitation effects on sediment and associated nutrient discharges from Rhode River watersheds
• Effects of precipitation and air temperature on phosphorus fluxes from Rhode River watersheds
• Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States
• Author Correction: Accuracy and Precision of Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Mapping in the Conterminous United States
• Using Bayesian hierarchical models to better understand nitrate sources and sinks in agricultural watersheds
• Species Distribution Models of Freshwater Stream Fishes in Maryland and Their Implications for Management
• Using Multiple Watershed Models to Predict Water, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Discharges to the Patuxent Estuary
• Applying additive modelling and gradient boosting to assess the effects of watershed and reach characteristics on riverine assemblages
• Legacy effects in material flux: Structural catchment changes predate long-term studies
• Effects of riparian buffers on nitrate concentrations in watershed discharges: New models and management implications
• Geoadditive regression modeling of stream biological condition
• How novel is too novel? Stream community thresholds at exceptionally low levels of catchment urbanization
• Watershed model calibration using multi-objective optimization and multi-site averaging
• A stream network model for integrated watershed modeling
• Empirical models based on the universal soil loss equation fail to predict sediment discharges from Chesapeake Bay catchments
• Integrated modular modeling of water and nutrients from point and nonpoint sources in the patuxent river watershed
• Net anthropogenic phosphorus inputs: Spatial and temporal variability in the Chesapeake Bay region
• Combining HGM and EMAP procedures to assess wetlands at the watershed scale - Status of flats and non-tidal riverine wetlands in the Nanticoke River Watershed, Delaware and Maryland (USA)
• Comparing functional assessments of wetlands to measurements of soil characteristics and nitrogen processing
• Effects of stream map resolution on measures of riparian buffer distribution and nutrient retention potential
• Landscape indicators of wetland condition in the Nanticoke River Watershed, Maryland and Delaware, USA
• Improved methods for quantifying potential nutrient interception by riparian buffers
• Temporal variability of optical properties in a shallow, eutrophic estuary: Seasonal and interannual variability
• Watershed land use is strongly linked to PCBs in white perch in Chesapeake Bay subestuaries
• Effects of precipitation, air temperature, and land use on organic carbon discharges from rhode river watersheds
• Beaver pond biogeochemical effects in the Maryland Coastal Plain
• Modeling the hydrochemistry of the Choptank River Basin using GWLF and Arc/Info: 1. Model calibration and validation
• Effects of precipitation and air temperature on nitrogen discharges from Rhode river watersheds
• Spatial considerations for linking watershed land cover to ecological indicators in streams
• Effects of watershed and estuarine characteristics on the abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake bay subestuaries
• Cropland riparian buffers throughout chesapeake bay watershed: Spatial patterns and effects on nitrate loads delivered to streams
• Effects of land-use change on nutrient discharges from the Patuxent River watershed
• Effects of land cover and geology on stream chemistry in watersheds of Chesapeake Bay
• Effects of interannual variation of precipitation on stream discharge from Rhode River subwatersheds
• The Relationship Between Shoreline Armoring and Adjacent Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay and Nearby Atlantic Coastal Bays
• Sources of nutrient inputs to the Patuxent River estuary
• Effects of Shoreline Alteration and Other Stressors on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Subestuaries of Chesapeake Bay and the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Bays
• Interannual variation in submerged aquatic vegetation and its relationship to water quality in subestuaries of Chesapeake Bay
• Local and regional disturbances associated with the invasion of Chesapeake Bay marshes by the common reed Phragmites australis
• Dissolved Silicate Dynamics of the Rhode River Watershed and Estuary
• Comparison of Automated Watershed Delineations
• Effects of land-use change on nutrient discharges from the Patuxent River watershed
• Inexpensive spot sampling provides unexpectedly effective indicators of watershed nitrogen status
• Requirement of low oxidation-reduction potential for photosynthesis in a blue-green alga (Phormidium sp.)
• Heuristic models for material discharge from landscapes with riparian buffers
• Nutrients and chlorophyll at the interface of a watershed and an estuary
• A re-evaluation of the -3/2 power rule of plant self-thinning.
• Human contributions to terrestial nitrogen flux
• Transport of nitrogen and phosphorus from Rhode River watersheds during storm events
• Self-thinning exponent correlated with allometric measures of plant geometry.
• Relating nutrient discharges from watersheds to land use and streamflow variability
• Nutrient interception by a riparian forest receiving inputs from adjacent cropland
• The interspecific size-density relationship among crowded plant stands and its implications for the -3/2 power rule of self- thinning
• Denitrification in surface soils of a riparian forest: Effects of water, nitrate and sucrose additions
• Temporal variation in precipitation chemistry on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay
• Nutrient flux in a landscape: Effects of coastal land use and terrestrial community mosaic on nutrient transport to coastal waters
• Nonpoint source discharges of nutrients from piedmont watersheds of Chesapeake Bay
• Denitrification in riparian forests receiving agricultural discharges
• Long-term trends in estuarine nutrients and chlorophyll, and short- term effects of variation in watershed discharge
• Cross media inputs to eastern US watersheds and their significance to estuarine water quality
• Effects of agriculture on discharges of nutrients from Coastal Plain watersheds of Chesapeake Bay
• Will the Real Self-Thinning Rule Please Stand Up?--A Reply to Osawa and Sugita
• The Self-Thinning Rule: Dead or Unsupported?--A Reply to Lonsdale
• Rates of Heat Exchange in Largemouth Bass: Experiment and Model
• New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses
• Effects of watershed and estuarine characteristics on the abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay subestuaries
• Classifying the biological condition of small streams: an example using benthic macroinvertebrates
• The responses of hydrological indicators to watershed characteristics
• Urbanization reduces and homogenizes trait diversity in stream macroinvertebrate communities
• Data synthesis for environmental management: A case study of Chesapeake Bay
• Long-term Annual Aerial Surveys of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Support Science, Management, and Restoration
• Uncertainty in United States coastal wetland greenhouse gas inventorying
• Long-term nutrient reductions lead to the unprecedented recovery of a temperate coastal region
• Environmental DNA reveals anadromous river herring habitat use and recolonization after restoration of aquatic connectivity
• Structural Equation Models Suggest That On-Farm Noncrop Vegetation Removal Is Not Associated with Improved Food Safety Outcomes but Is Linked to Impaired Water Quality
• Rise of Ruppia in Chesapeake Bay: Climate change–driven turnover of foundation species creates new threats and management opportunities
• Scalability and performance tradeoffs in quantifying relationships between elevation and tidal wetland plant communities
• Impacts of Coastal Land Use and Shoreline Armoring on Estuarine Ecosystems: an Introduction to a Special Issue
• Correction to: Land Use and Salinity Drive Changes in SAV Abundance and Community Composition (vol 41, pg S85, 2018)
• Correction to: Effects of Local Watershed Land Use on Water Quality in Mid-Atlantic Coastal Bays and Subestuaries of the Chesapeake Bay (vol 41, pg S38, 2018)
• Correction to: Impacts of Coastal Land Use and Shoreline Armoring on Estuarine Ecosystems: an Introduction to a Special Issue (vol 41, pg S2, 2018)
• The Chesapeake Bay program modeling system: Overview and recommendations for future development