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Overview

Ishi Buffam is affiliated with the University of Cincinnati in the United States and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their recent publications address diverse topics relevant to environmental systems and urban ecology. Notable papers include:

  • Priorities and barriers for urban ecosystem service provision: A comparison of stakeholder perspectives from three cities (2022, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities)
  • Unified understanding of intrinsic and extrinsic controls of dissolved organic carbon reactivity in aquatic ecosystems (2022, Ecology)
  • Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus variation along a green roof chronosequence: Implications for green roof ecosystem development (2021, Ecological Engineering)
  • Green Roof Research in North America: A Recent History and Future Strategies (2020, Journal of Living Architecture)
  • Biochar-amended substrate improves nutrient retention in green roof plots (2023, Nature-Based Solutions)

The main topics covered by Ishi Buffam's research include:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Frequent collaborators contributing to Buffam's body of work include Tobias Emilsson, Amy Heim, Mark E. Mitchell, Åsa Ode Sang, and Pierre-Luc Chagnon.

Buffam has published repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Nature-Based Solutions
  • Journal of Living Architecture
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Engineering
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities

The range of topics and publication venues reflects a focus on urban ecological systems, environmental processes, and ecosystem services. This comprehensive output contributes to understanding factors influencing city environments, green infrastructure development, and nutrient dynamics in various ecological contexts.

Best Publications

  • Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

    Matthias Peichl;Jörgen Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam

  • Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Inputs of Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter to Lakes: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

    Christopher T. Solomon;Stuart E. Jones;Brian C. Weidel;Ishi Buffam

  • Patterns and dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in boreal streams: The role of processes, connectivity, and scaling

    Hjalmar Laudon;Martin Berggren;Martin Berggren;Anneli Ågren;Ishi Buffam

  • Contemporary carbon accumulation in a boreal oligotrophic minerogenic mire – a significant sink after accounting for all C‐fluxes

    Mats Nilsson;Joergen Sagerfors;Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Thirty-five years of synchrony in the organic matter concentrations of Swedish rivers explained by variation in flow and sulphate

    Martin Erlandsson;Ishi Buffam;Jens Fölster;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Seasonal TOC export from seven boreal catchments in northern Sweden

    Hjalmar Laudon;Stephan Jürgen Köhler;Ishi Buffam

  • Importance of seasonality and small streams for the landscape regulation of dissolved organic carbon export

    Annelie Ågren;I Buffam;Mats Jansson;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Contemporary changes in dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in human-dominated rivers: is there a role for DOC management?

    Emily H. Stanley;Stephen M. Powers;Noah R. Lottig;Ishi Buffam

  • Aqua Incognita: the unknown headwaters

    Kevin H Bishop;Ishi Buffam;M Erlandsson;J Fölster

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • A stormflow/baseflow comparison of dissolved organic matter concentrations and bioavailability in an Appalachian stream

    Ishi Buffam;James N. Galloway;Linda K. Blum;Karen J. McGLATHERY

  • The role of catchment scale and landscape characteristics for runoff generation of boreal streams

    Hjalmar Laudon;Viktor Sjöblom;Ishi Buffam;Jan Seibert

  • Terrestrial inputs of organic matter to coastal ecosystems : An intercomparison of chemical characteristics and bioavailability

    Charles S. Hopkinson;Ishi Buffam;John Hobbie;Joseph Vallino

  • Evasion of CO2 from streams - the dominant component of the carbon export through the aquatic conduit in a boreal landscape.

    Marcus B. Wallin;Marcus B. Wallin;Thomas Grabs;Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Landscape-scale variability of acidity and dissolved organic carbon during spring flood in a boreal stream network

    Ishi Buffam;Hjalmar Laudon;Hjalmar Laudon;Johan Temnerud;Johan Temnerud;Carl-Magnus Mörth

  • Integrating aquatic and terrestrial components to construct a complete carbon budget for a north temperate lake district

    Ishi Buffam;Monica G. Turner;Ankur R. Desai;Paul C. Hanson

  • Dissolved organic carbon characteristics in boreal streams in a forest-wetland gradient during the transition between winter and summer

    Anneli Ågren;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam;Martin Berggren;Kevin Bishop

  • Spatiotemporal variability of the gas transfer coefficient (KCO2) in boreal streams: Implications for large scale estimates of CO2 evasion

    Marcus B. Wallin;Mats G. Öquist;Ishi Buffam;Michael F. Billett

  • Temporal and spatial variability of dissolved inorganic carbon in a boreal stream network: Concentrations and downstream fluxes

    Marcus Wallin;Ishi Buffam;Mats Öquist;Hjalmar Laudon

  • Cold winter soils enhance dissolved organic carbon concentrations in soil and stream water

    Mahsa Haei;Mats G. Öquist;Ishi Buffam;Anneli Ågren

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kevin Bishop
Kevin Bishop Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stephan J. Köhler
Stephan J. Köhler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jan Seibert
Jan Seibert University of Zurich
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Leif Klemedtsson
Leif Klemedtsson University of Gothenburg
Carl J. Watras
Carl J. Watras University of Wisconsin–Madison
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson Umeå University
Paul C. Hanson
Paul C. Hanson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Emily H. Stanley
Emily H. Stanley University of Wisconsin–Madison

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