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62
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15936
World Ranking
2055
National Ranking
746

Overview

Daniel L. Childers is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, industrial and manufacturing engineering, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Childers's work covers several key topics including land use and ecosystem services, urban green space and health, constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment, urban heat island mitigation, urban agriculture and sustainability, urban stormwater management solutions, and wastewater treatment and reuse.

The scientist has contributed to various academic journals, frequently publishing in AMBIO, Gastroenterology, One Earth, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and BioScience. Their recent notable papers include:

  1. A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services, 2022, One Earth
  2. Influences of Environmental and Social Factors on Perceived Bio-Cultural Services and Disservices, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  3. A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities, 2024, AMBIO
  4. Cross-Site Comparisons of Dryland Ecosystem Response to Climate Change in the US Long-Term Ecological Research Network, 2021, BioScience
  5. The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures, 2024, AMBIO

Frequent collaborators in Childers's research include Timon McPhearson, Niki Frantzeskaki, Steward T. A. Pickett, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, and Fushcia-Ann Hoover. These coauthors have contributed across multiple projects and publications.

Best Publications

  • The Identification, Conservation, and Management of Estuarine and Marine Nurseries for Fish and Invertebrates

    Michael W. Beck;Kenneth L. Heck;Kenneth W. Able;Daniel L. Childers

  • An integrated conceptual framework for long‐term social–ecological research

    Scott L Collins;Stephen R Carpenter;Scott M Swinton;Daniel E Orenstein

  • Linking ecology and economics for ecosystem management

    Stephen Farber;Robert Costanza;Daniel L. Childers;Jon Erickson

  • Sustainability challenges of phosphorus and food: Solutions from closing the human phosphorus cycle

    Daniel L. Childers;Jessica Corman;Mark Edwards;James J. Elser

  • Trees Grow on Money: Urban Tree Canopy Cover and Environmental Justice

    Kirsten Schwarz;Michail Fragkias;Christopher Boone;Weiqi Zhou

  • Phosphorus Biogeochemistry and the Impact of Phosphorus Enrichment: Why Is the Everglades so Unique?

    Gregory B. Noe;Daniel L. Childers;Ronald D. Jones

  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

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  • Advancing urban sustainability theory and action: Challenges and opportunities

    Daniel L. Childers;Steward T.A. Pickett;J. Morgan Grove;Laura Ogden

  • Evolution and future of urban ecological science: ecology in, of, and for the city

    Steward T. A. Pickett;Mary L. Cadenasso;Daniel L. Childers;Mark J. McDonnell

  • An Ecology for Cities: A Transformational Nexus of Design and Ecology to Advance Climate Change Resilience and Urban Sustainability

    Daniel L. Childers;Mary L. Cadenasso;J. Morgan Grove;Victoria Marshall

  • Phosphorus and nitrogen inputs to Florida Bay: The importance of the everglades watershed

    D. T. Rudnick;Z. Chen;D. L. Childers;J. N. Boyer

  • The role of nearshore ecosystems as fish and shellfish nurseries

    Michael W. Beck;Kenneth L. Heck;Kenneth W. Able;Daniel L. Childers

  • Short-term changes in phosphorus storage in an oligotrophic Everglades wetland ecosystem receiving experimental nutrient enrichment

    Gregory B. Noe;Dan Childers;Adreienne L. Edwards;Evelyn E. Gaiser

  • Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic ''upside-down'' estuaries of the Florida Everglades

    Daniel L. Childers;Joseph N. Boyer;Stephen E. Davis;Christopher J. Madden

  • Temporally dependent C, N, and P dynamics associated with the decay of Rhizophora mangle L. leaf litter in oligotrophic mangrove wetlands of the Southern Everglades

    Stephen E. Davis;Carlos Corronado-Molina;Daniel L. Childers;John W. Day

  • Decadal Change in Vegetation and Soil Phosphorus Pattern across the Everglades Landscape

    Daniel L. Childers;Robert F. Doren;Ronald Jones;Gregory B. Noe

  • Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city

    S. T.A. Pickett;Christopher G. Boone;Brian P. McGrath;Mary Cadenasso

  • Periphyton responses to eutrophication in the Florida Everglades: Cross-system patterns of structural and compositional change

    Evelyn E. Gaiser;Daniel L. Childers;Ronald D. Jones;Jennifer H. Richards

  • Twenty More Years of Marsh and Estuarine Flux Studies: Revisiting Nixon (1980)

    Daniel L. Childers;John W. Day;Henry N. Mckellar

  • Quantitative and qualitative aspects of dissolved organic carbon leached from senescent plants in an oligotrophic wetland

    Nagamitsu Maie;Rudolf Jaffé;Toshikazu Miyoshi;Daniel L. Childers

  • A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE MANGROVE ESTUARIES OF THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES

    Steven M. Davis;Daniel L. Childers;Jerome J. Lorenz;Harold R. Wanless

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred H. Sklar
Fred H. Sklar South Florida Water Management District
Evelyn E. Gaiser
Evelyn E. Gaiser Florida International University
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
J. Morgan Grove
J. Morgan Grove US Forest Service
Steward T. A. Pickett
Steward T. A. Pickett Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Nancy B. Grimm
Nancy B. Grimm Arizona State University
Rudolf Jaffé
Rudolf Jaffé Florida International University
Gregory B. Noe
Gregory B. Noe United States Geological Survey
Joel C. Trexler
Joel C. Trexler Florida International University
Tiffany G. Troxler
Tiffany G. Troxler Florida International University

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