Rising rates of urbanization and resource exploitation have reduced opportunities for human interaction with nature and motivated an expansion of interest in research and development of initiatives to achieve human health ...

Transpiration, or plant water loss, is a critical component of water balance and flux for terrestrial systems worldwide, yet uncertainty in large-scale estimates create significant challenges for water resource forecasting ...

Benzo(a)pyrene (BAP) is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with carcinogenic metabolites. Triphenyl phosphate (TPP) is an organophosphate ester often used as a flame retardant and plasticizer. This study assessed exposures ...

The Town of Holly Springs, located in Wake County of North Carolina, is interested in improving energy efficiency in municipal operations and facilities to offset increasing energy consumption and utility costs that are ...

The ACE Basin National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is 11,815 acres of critical wildlife habitat in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region. The Refuge contains a mosaic of forest types, including upland pine and hardwood, bottomland ...

Well-informed landscape management decisions rely on accurate data of species presence which is often a resource-intensive and time-consuming effort to collect. Due to limited resources, Duke Forest Management Team has been ...

In the last 20 years, advancements in technology, such as remote sensing, have facilitated improvements in forest management. The utilization of one remote sensing tool, in particular, an unmanned aerial vehicle (drone), ...

Although the Southeastern United States generally receives considerable precipitation and total precipitation has slightly increased, the region has experienced recent recurrent droughts and is anticipated to encounter more ...

Managing forests for carbon is a productive and sustainable way to provide conservation and economic and ecological value. Oaxaca, the most biologically diverse state in Mexico, located in the southwestern region of the ...

Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine), Pinus echinata (shortleaf pine), Pinus taeda (loblolly pine), Pinus elliottii (slash pine), and Pinus palustris (longleaf pine) are five of the most dominant shade-intolerant pine species ...