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M.A. Palmer, H Menninger, E.S. Benhardt. 2009. River Restoration, Habitat Heterogeneity, and Biodiversity: A Failure of Theory or Practice? Freshwater Biology. In Press.

 

M.A. Palmer & S. Filoso. 2009. Restoration of Ecosystems Services for Environmental Markets. Science. 325(5940):575-576. (abstract)

 

M.A. Palmer. 2009. Reforming Watershed Restoration: Science in NEed of Application and Applications in Need of Science. Estuaries and Coasts. 32(1):1559-2723.

 

K.C. Nelson, M.A. Palmer, J.E. Pizzuto, G.E. Moglen, P.L. Angermeier, R.H. Hilderbrand, M. Dettinger, K. Hayhoe. 2008. Forecasting the combined effects of urbanization and climate change on stream ecosystems: from impacts to management options. Journal of Applied Ecology. 46(1):154-163.

C.E. Williamson, W. Dodds, T.K. Kratz, and M.A. Palmer. 2008. Lakes and streams as sentinals of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6(5):247-254.

L.S. Craig, M.A. Palmer, D.C. Richardson, S. Filoso, E.S. Bernhardt, B.P. Bledsoe, M.W. Doyle, P.M. Groffman, B.A. Hassett, S.S. Kaushal, P.M. Mayer, S.M. Smith, and P.R. Wilcock. Stream restoration strategies for reducing river nitrogen loads. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In Press (2008).

Palmer, M.A., C. Reidy, C. Nilsson, M. Florke, J. Alcamo, P.S. Lake, and N. Bond. 2007. Climate change and the world's river basins: anticipating response options. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6:doi:10.1890/060148.

Menninger, H. and M. A. Palmer. 2007. The role of herbaceous plants and grasses as a basal resource in open-canopy headwater streams. Freshwater Biology. 52:1689-1699.

Pizzuto, J., G. Moglen, M.A. Palmer, and K. Nelson. 2007. Two model scenarios illustrating the effects of land use and climate change on gravel riverbeds of suburban Maryland, U.S.A. in Gravel Bed Rivers 6 - From Process Understanding to River Restoration. Edit by M. Rinaldi, P. Ergenzinger, H. Habersack, T. Hoey, and H. Piegay. Elsevier.

Nelson, K. and M.A. Palmer. 2007. Predicting stream temperature under urbanization and climate change: implications for stream biota. J. American Water Res. Assoc. 43: 440 - 452.

Bernhardt, E.S. and M.A. Palmer. 2007. Restoring streams in an urban context. Freshwater Biology. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2006.01718.x.

Swan, C.M. and M.A. Palmer. 2006. Preferential feeding by an aquatic consumer mediates non-additive decomposition of speciose leaf litter. Oecologia. 149(1):Online First.

Palmer, M.A. and J.D. Allan. 2006. River restoration: as the need for river restoration grows, supporting federal policies should follow. Issues in Science and Technology. 22:40-48.

Palmer, M.A. and E.S. Bernhardt. 2006. Hydroecology and river restoration: ripe for research and synthesis. Water Resources Research. Vol. 42, No. 3, W03S07, 10.1029/2005WR004354.

Hassett, B., M.A. Palmer, E.S. Bernhardt, S. Smith, J. Carr, D.D. Hart. 2005. Restoring watersheds project by project: trends in Chesapeake Bay tributary restoration. Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment. 3(5):259-267.

Moore, A.A., M.A. Palmer. 2005. Invertebrate biodiversity in agricultural and urban headwater streams: implications for convservation and management. Ecological Applications. 15(4):1169-1177.

Bernhardt, E.S., M. A. Palmer, J. D. Allan, .G. Alexander, S. Brooks, J. Carr, C. Dahm, et al. 2005. Synthesizing U.S. River Restoration. Science. 308:636-637.

Palmer, M.A., E.S. Bernhardt, J.D. Allen, P.S. Lake, G. Alexander, S. Brooks, J. Carr, S. Clayton, C.N. Dahm, J. Follstad Shah, D.L. Galat, S. Gloss, P. Goodwin, D.D. Hart, B. Hassett, R. Jenkinson, K.M. Kondolf, R. Lave, J.L. Meyer, T.K. O'Donnell, L. Pagano, E. Sudduth. 2005. Standards for ecologically successfull river restoration. Journal Of Applied Ecology. 42:208-217.

Moglen, G.E. K.C. Nelson, M.A. Palmer, J.E. Pizzuto, C.E. Rodgers, M.I. Hejazi. Hydro-Ecological responses to land use in small urbanizing watershed in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. American Geophysical Union.

Palmer, M.A., E. Bernhardt, E. Chornesky, S. Collins, A. Dobson, C. Duke, B. Gold, R. Jacobson, S. Kingsland, R. Kranz, M. Mappin, M.L. Martinez, F. Micheli, J. Morse, M. Pace, M. Pascual, S. Palumbi, O.J. Reichman, A. Simons, A. Townsend, M. Turner. Ecology for a Crowded Planet. Science. 304: 1251-1252.

Hastings, A. and M. A. Palmer. 2003. A bright future for biologists and mathematicians? Science. 299: 2003-2004.

Palmer, M.A., D.D. Hart, J.D. Allan, E. Bernhardt, and the National Riverine Restoration Science Synthesis Working Group. 2003. Bridging engineering, ecological and geomorphic science to enhance riverine restoration: local and national efforts. Proceedings of A National Symposium on Urban and Rural Stream Protection and Restoration, EWRI World Water and Environmental Congress, Philadelphia, Pa, June 2003, published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston Va.

Benda, L.E., N. L. Poff, C. Tague, M.A. Palmer, J. Pizzuto, N. Bockstael, S. Cooper, E. Stanley, and G. Moglen. 2002. Avoiding train wrecks in the use of science in environmental problem solving. BioScience. 52: 1127-1136.

Cardinale, B.J. and M.A. Palmer. 2002. Disturbance moderates biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships: experimental evidence from caddisflies in stream mesocosms. Ecology. 83: 1915-1927.

Cardinale, B.J., M.A. Palmer, C.M. Swan, S. Brooks, N.L. Poff. 2002. The influence of physical habitat heterogeneity on biofilm metabolism in a stream ecosystem. Ecology. 83: 412-422.

Brooks, S., M. A. Palmer, C.M. Swan, B.J. Cardinale, S. G. Ribblett. 2002. Assessing stream rehabilitation: limitations of community structure data. Restoration Ecology. 10: 156-168.

Cardinale, B.J., M.A. Palmer, and S.L. Collins. 2002. Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation. Nature. 415: 426-429.

Palmer, M.A., G.E. Moglen, N. E. Bockstael, S. Brooks, J.E. Pizzuto, C. Wiegand, and K. VanNess. 2002. The ecological consequences of changing land use for running waters: the surburban Maryland case. Yale Bulletin of Environmental Science. 107: 85-113.

Michener, W.K., Baerwald, T., P. Firth, M. A. Palmer, J. Rosenberger, E. Sandlin, and H. Zimmerman. 2001. Defining and unraveling biocomplexity. BioScience. 51:1018-1023.

Palmer, M.A., C.M. Swan, K. Nelson, P. Silver Botts & R. Alvestad. 2000. Streambed landscapes: evidence that stream invertebrates respond to the type and spatial arrangement of patches. Landscape Ecology. 15:563-576.

Lake, P.S, M.A. Palmer, P. Biro, J. Cole, A.P. Covich, C. Dahm, J. Gibert, W. Goedkoop, K. Martens, J. Verhoeven. 2000. Global change and the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems: impacts on linkages between above-sediment and sediment biota. Bioscience. 50(12):1099-1107.

Palmer, M.A., A.P. Covich, S. Lake, P. Biro, J.J. Brooks, J. Cole, C. Dahm, J. Gibert, W. Goedkoop, K. Martens, J. Verhoeven, W.J. Van de Bund. 2000. Linkages between aquatic sediment biota and life above sediments as potential drivers of biodiversity and ecological processes. BioScience. 50(12): 1062-1075.

Covich, A.P., M.A. Palmer & T.A. Crowl. 1999. The role of benthic species in freshwater ecosystem processes. Bioscience. 49:119-126.

Hakenkamp, C.C. & M.A. Palmer. 1999. Introduced bivalves in freshwater ecosystems: the impact of Corbicula on carbon dynamics in a sandy stream. Oecologia. 119: 445-451.

Palmer, M.A. (and 12 others). 1997. Biodiversity and Ecosystem processes in freshwater sediments. Ambio. 26:571-577.

Palmer, M.A., R.F. Ambrose, & N.L. Poff. 1997. Ecological theory and community restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 5:291-300.

Palmer, M.A., P. Arensburger, A.P. Martin, & D.W. Denman. 1996. Disturbance and patch-specific responses: the interactive effects of woody debris and floods on lotic invertebrates. Oecologia. 105:247-257.