Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Recent papers from Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

1. Leaf hydraulic and photosynthetic traits mediate forest-scale resource use efficiencies across the continental United StatesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
2. From detections to demography: methodological challenges and opportunities in survival estimation from automated telemetry networksMovement Ecology · 2026
3. Marinas act as persistent introduction hubs driving the decadal accumulation of non-indigenous fouling species in an oceanic island systemScientific Reports · 2026
4. Genetic diversity of endangered Acropora spp. corals in Bonaire: implications for restoration and gene banking2026
5. GPS-Tracked Bottles in North American Rivers Show Marine Plastic Pollution Can Originate from Far UpstreamACS ES&T Water · 2026
6. National Monitoring of Mangroves has Outpaced their Integration into Climate PolicyCurrent Forestry Reports · 2026
7. A Perspective on the Development of Novel In Situ Remediation of Contaminated Sediments Using Black CarbonEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2026
8. Mixing vs Capping: Thin-Layer Placement of Activated Carbon Reduces Porewater Methylmercury While Limiting Sediment AccumulationACS ES&T Engineering · 2026
9. Changing coral disease dynamics with the emergence of stony coral tissue loss disease on reefs at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize Barrier ReefFrontiers in Marine Science · 2026
10. Toward a standard lexicon for ecological forecastingFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2026
11. Flooding with brackish water disrupts Liriodendron tulipifera sap flux in an ecosystem-scale experimentOecologia · 2026
12. Spatial and temporal variability of Honduran benthic communities and reef functionality throughout the fourth global coral bleaching eventFrontiers in Marine Science · 2026
13. Description of Tanystylum caulieri sp. nov. (Ammotheidae, Pycnogonida) in California, USAArthropoda · 2026
14. Peatland diversity in Belizean wetlands and the challenges of greenhouse gas reportingScientific Reports · 2026
15. Exceptional diversification of floral form in a specialized pollination mutualismNew Phytologist · 2026
16. A Modular, Field‐Ready System for Measuring In Situ Depth‐Resolved Soil Dissolved Oxygen Time SeriesJournal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · 2026
17. Oyster reef habitat characteristics and nekton communities vary with restoration method in a large‐scale projectEcosphere · 2026
18. Long-term citizen science data reveals climate influences of tropical tree flowering at the regional scaleInternational Journal of Biometeorology · 2026
19. Ten years after: a review of squidpop assays to test predation in aquatic habitatsFrontiers in Marine Science · 2026
20. A primer on forest structure measurement with lidar for ecologistsEcosphere · 2026