User profiles for N. Bettez

Neil Bettez, PhD

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Verified email at caryinstitute.org
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Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions

LD Hinzman, ND Bettez, WR Bolton, FS Chapin… - Climatic change, 2005 - Springer
The Arctic climate is changing. Permafrost is warming, hydrological processes are changing
and biological and social systems are also evolving in response to these changing …

Ecological homogenization of urban USA

…, J Cavender-Bares, ND Bettez… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… views: specifically, soil C and nitrogen (N) pools, plant species, phylogenetic and functional
diversity of vegetation, the δ 13 C and δ 15 N of plants and soils, hydrography and sediment …

The engaged university: providing a platform for research that transforms society

…, W Schlesinger, S Raciti, N Bettez… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Despite a growing recognition that the solutions to current environmental problems will be
developed through collaborations between scientists and stakeholders, substantial …

Impact of global change on the biogeochemistry and ecology of an Arctic freshwater system

JE Hobbie, BJ Peterson, N Bettez, L Deegan… - Polar …, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Lakes and streams in the foothills near Tookik Lake, Alaska, at 68N have been studied
since 1975 to predict physical, chemical and biological impacts of future global change. …

Denitrification potential in stormwater control structures and natural riparian zones in an urban landscape

ND Bettez, PM Groffman - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
… used to calculate potential net N mineralization (conversion of organic N to inorganic N)
and … of N 2 O in the presence of acetylene, which blocks the conversion of N 2 O to N 2 . Soil …

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

…, C Knudson, PM Groffman, N Bettez… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… Multivariate analyses are conducted on telephone survey responses from a geographically
stratified random sample of homeowners (n = 9,480), equally distributed across six US …

Ecosystem services in managing residential landscapes: priorities, value dimensions, and cross-regional patterns

KL Larson, KC Nelson, SR Samples, SJ Hall, N Bettez… - Urban …, 2016 - Springer
… West, or the warm South or the cold North. Results underscored that cultural services were of
utmost … more than those in the North, where low-maintenance yards were a greater priority. …

Nitrogen deposition in and near an urban ecosystem

ND Bettez, PM Groffman - Environmental science & technology, 2013 - ACS Publications
… In this study, our goals were to investigate how N deposition is influenced by urbanization.
To accomplish this, we measured atmospheric N inputs to watersheds with different land uses …

[HTML][HTML] Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities

…, C Neill, PM Groffman, M Avolio, N Bettez… - Landscape and Urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
… = 25), and more than $150,000 (n = 19). Significant differences (Tukey HSD, p < 0.05) are
… homogenization may extend more broadly within the US as well as beyond North America. …

Homogenization of plant diversity, composition, and structure in North American urban yards

…, SE Hobbie, ML Avolio, N Bettez… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Urban ecosystems are widely hypothesized to be more ecologically homogeneous than
natural ecosystems. We argue that urban plant communities assemble from a complex mix of …