Publications

Key Richardson Lab publications last 10 years.

He, K., Y Zhang, W Li.,   Zeng,  A., de Graaf,  IEM ., Aguilos,  M ., Sun, G.,  … Richardson , C. J. 2025.Temperature and water levels collectively regulate methane emissions from subtropical freshwater wetlands. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 39 (3), e2024GB008372

Richter, DD.,  Billings, SA.,  Brantley,  SL., Gaillardet, J.,  Markewitz, D.,  …Richardson, C. J. 2024. Earth sciences are the model sciences of the Anthropocene Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists 5 (1), e2024CN000237

Richardson, CJ.,  Flanagan. NE., 2024. Water quality and wetland vegetation responses to water level variations in a university stormwater reuse reservoir: Nature-based approaches. Science of The Total Environment 948, 174616

He, K.,  W Li, Y Zhang,  Sun, G.,   McNulty, SG., Flanagan, NE., Richardson. CJ., 2023.  Identifying driving hydrogeomorphic factors of coastal wetland downgrading using random forest classification models Science of the Total Environment 894, 164995.

Richardson, C. J., Flanagan, N. E., & Ho, M. (2023). The effects of hydrologic restoration on carbon budgets and GHG fluxes in southeastern US coastal shrub bogs. Ecological Engineering

Richardson, C. J., Flanagan, N. E., Wang, H., & Ho, M. 2022. Annual carbon sequestration and loss rates under altered hydrology and fire regimes in southeastern USA pocosin peatlands. Global Change Biology,00, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16366

Sun, X., H. Wang, C. Song, X. Jin, C. J. Richardson, and T. Cai. 2021. Response of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from peatlands to permafrost thawing in Xiaoxing’an mountains, Northeast China. Atmosphere 12, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12020222.

Tian, J., Wang, H. Vilgalys, R., Ho, H., Flanagan, N., Richardson, C. J.  2021. Response of fungal communities to fire in a subtropical peatland. Plant Soil 466,525–543 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-021-05070-0

Wang, H., H. Ho, N. Flanagan, C.J. Richardson. 2021. The effects of hydrological management on methane emissions for southeastern shrub bogs of the USA. Wetlands. Wetlands 41, 87https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01486-7.

Wang, H., Tian, J., Chen, H Ho, H., Vilgalys, R., Bu,Z., Liu,X., Richardson,C.J. 2021. Vegetation and microbes interact to preserve carbon in many wooded peatlands. Commun Earth Environ 2, 67 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00136-4.

Avellan, A., M. Simonin, S.M. Anderson, N.K. Geitner, N. Bossa, E. Spielman-Sun, E.S. Bernhardt, B.T. Castellon, B.P. Colman, J.L. Cooper, M. Ho, M.F. Hochella Jr., H. Hsu-Kim, S. Inoue, R.S. King, S. Laughton, C.W. Matson, B.G. Perrotta, C.J. Richardson, J.M. Unrine, M.R. Wiesner, and G.V. Lowry. 2020. Differential reactivity of copper- and gold-based nanomaterials controls their seasonal biogeochemical cycling and fate in a freshwater wetland mesocosm. Environmental Science & Technology 54(3):1533-1544. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05097

Bachand, P.A.M., P. Vaithiyanathan, and C.J. Richardson. 2020. Phosphorous removal improvements and cost reductions leveraging cationic polymers and anionic polyacrylamides in chemically enhanced treatment wetland systems. Ecological Engineering 146:105722. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2020.105722

Flanagan, N.E., H. Wang, S. Winton, and C.J. Richardson. 2020. Low-severity fire as a mechanism of organic matter protection in global peatlands: Thermal alteration slows decomposition. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15102

Bansal, S., S.C. Lishawa, S. Newman, B.A. Tangen, D. Wilcox, D. Albert, M.J. Anteau, M.J. Chimney, R.L. Cressey, E. DeKeyser, K.J. Elgersma, S.A. Finkelstein, J. Freeland, R. Grosshans, P.E. Klug, D.J. Larkin, B.A. Lawrence, G. Linz, J. Marburger, G. Noe, C. Otto, N. Reo, J. Richards, C.J. Richardson,  L. Rodgers, A.J. Schrank, D. Svedarsky, S. Travis, N. Tuchman, L. Windham-Myers. 2019. Typha (Cattail) invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, regional problems, impacts, ecosystem services, and management. Wetlands online, open access. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01174-7

Richardson, C.J., and R.S. Winton. 2019. Wetland ecology. In Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0220

River, M., and C.J. Richardson. 2019. Dissolved reactive phosphorus loads to western Lake Erie: The hidden influence of nanoparticles. Journal of Environmental Quality 48:645-652. doi:10.2134/jeq2018.05.0178

River, M., and C.J. Richardson. 2019. Suspended sediment mineralogy and the nature of suspended sediment particles in stormflow of the southern Piedmont of the U.S. Water Resources Research 55. doi:10.1029/2018WR024613

Silvestri, S., R. Knight, A. Viezzoli, C.J. Richardson, G.Z. Anshari, N. Dewar, N. Flanagan, and X. Comas. 2019. Quantification of peat thickness and stored carbon at the landscape scale in tropical peatlands: A comparison of airborne geophysics and an empirical topographic method. JGR Earth Surface online, open access. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JF005273

Wang, H., M. River, and C.J. Richardson. 2019. Does an ‘iron gate’ carbon preservation mechanism exist in organic-rich wetlands? Soil Biology and Biochemisty 135:48-50 DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.04.011

Espinasse, B.P., N.K. Geitner, A. Schierz, M. Therezien, C.J. Richardson, G.V. Lowry, P.L. Ferguson, and M.R. Weisner. 2018. Comparative persistence of engineered nanoparticles in a complex aquatic system. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI:10.1021.acs.est.7b06142.

Fargione, J.E., S. Bassett, T. Boucher, S.D. Bridgham, R.T. Conant, S.C. Cook-Patton, P.W. Ellis, A. Falcucci, J.W. Fourquerean, T. Gopalakrishna, H. Gu, B. Henderson, M.D. Hurteau, K.D. Kroeger, T. Kroeger, T.J. Lark, S.M. Leavitt, G. Lomax, R.I. McDonald, J.P. Megonigal, D.A. Miteva, C.J. Richardson, J. Sanderman, D. Shoch, S.A. Spawn, J.W. Veldman, C.A. Williams, P.B. Woodbury, C. Zganjar, M. Baranski. P. Elias, R.A. Houghton, E. Landis, E. McGlynn, W.H. Schlesinger, J.V. Siikamaki, A.E. Sutton-Grier, and B.W. Griscom. 2018. Natural climate solutions for the United States. Science Advances 4(11): eaat1869. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat1869

Geitner, N.K., J.L. Cooper, A. Avelian, B.T. Castellon, B.G. Perrotta, N. Bossa, M. Simonin, S.M. Anderson, S. Inoue, M.F. Hocehlla, Jr., C.J. Richardson, E.S. Bernhardt, G.V. Lowry, P. Lee Ferguson, C.W. Matson, R.S. King, J.M. Unrine, M.R. Wiester, and H. Hsu-Kim. 2018. Size-based differential transport, uptake, and mass distribution of ceria (CeO2) nanoparticles in wetland mesocosms. Environmental Science & Technology 52(17): 9768-9776. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b02040

Hodgkins, S.B., C.J. Richardson, R. Dommain, H. Wang, P.H. Glaser, B. Verbeke, B.R. Winkler, A.R. Cobb, V.I. Rich, M. Missilmani, N.E. Flanagan, M. Ho, A.M. Hoyt, C.F. Harvey, S.R. Vining, M.A. Hough, T.R. Moore, P.J.H. Richard, F.B. De La Cruz, J. Toufaily, R. Hamdan, W.T. Cooper, and J.P. Chanton. 2018. Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance. Nature Communications 9:3640.  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06050-2  

Richardson, C.J.  2018. The Everglades (USA). Chapter 56 (pp. 705-723) in: Finlayson, C.M., Milton, R., Prentice, C., Davidson, N.C. (eds.). The Wetland Book: II. Distribution, Description and Conservation. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_70-1

Richardson, C.J.  2018. Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq. Chapter 140 (pp. 1685-1695) in: Finlayson, C.M., Milton, R., Prentice, C., Davidson, N.C. (eds.). The Wetland Book: II. Distribution, Description and Conservation. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_70-1

Richardson, C.J.  2018. Pocosins (USA). Chapter 52 (pp. 667-677) in: Finlayson, C.M., Milton, R., Prentice, C., Davidson, N.C. (eds.). The Wetland Book: II. Distribution, Description and Conservation. Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6173-5_70-1

River, M., and C.J. Richardson. 2018. Particle size distribution predicts particulate phosphorus removal.  Ambio 47 (Suppl. 1):S124-S133. DOI 10.1007/213280-017-0981-z. open access.

River, M., and C.J. Richardson. 2018. Stream transport of iron and phosphorus by authigenic nanoparticles in the Southern Piedmont of the U.S. Water Research 130 (2018) 312-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.12.004.

Simonin, M., B.P. Colman, S.M. Anderson, R.S. King, M.T. Ruis, A. Avellan, C.M. Bergemann, B.G. Perrotta, N.K. Geitner, M. Ho, B. De La Barrera, J.M. Unrine, G.V. Lowry, C.J. Richardson, M.R. Wiesner, and E.S. Bernhardt. 2018.  Engineered nanoparticles interact with nutrients to intensify eutrophication in a wetland ecosystem experiment. Ecological Applications. 28(6):1435-1449. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1742

Yuan, L., C.J. Richardson, M. Ho, C.W. Willis, B.P. Colman, and M.R. Wiesner. 2018. Stress response of aquatic plants to silver nanoparticles. Environmental Science & Technology 52 (5): 2558-2565. DOI:10.1021/acs.est.7b05837.

Liu, J., R.-M. Han, H.-R. Su, Y.-P. Wu, L.-M. Zhang, C.J. Richardson, and G.-X. Wang. 2017. Effects of exotic Spartina alternifloria on vertical soil organic carbon distribution and storage amount in coastal salt marshes in Jiangsu, China. Ecological Engineering 106:132-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.05.041

Olson, L.H., J.C. Misenheimer, C.M. Nelson, K.D. Bradham, and C.J. Richardson. 2017. Influences of coal ash leachates and emergent macrophytes on water quality in wetland microcosms. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution228:344. DOI 10.1007/s11270-017-3520-4

Richardson, C.J. 2017. Ecological and hydrological constraints on large-scale wetland restorations in the Iraq Mesopotamian Al-Ahwar (marshes) and the Florida Everglades: A comparison. pp. 72-95 in: Proceedings. U.S.-Iran Symposium on Wetlands, March 28-30, 2016, Irvine, CA.  University of Arizona College of Engineering: Tucson. Proceedings available at http://civil.arizona.edu/us-iran-symposium-wetlands . 

Winton, R.S., N. Flanagan, and C.J. Richardson. 2017. Neotropical peatland methane emissions along a vegetation and biogeochemical gradient. PLoS One 12(10):e0187019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0187019

Winton, S.R., and C.J. Richardson. 2017. Top-down control of methane emission and nitrogen cycling by waterfowl. Ecology 98 (1):265-277. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1640

Richardson, C.J., G.L. Bruland, M.F. Hanchey, and A.E. Sutton-Greer. 2016. Soil restoration: The foundation of successful wetland reestablishment. Chapter 19, pp. 460-506 in: Wetland Soils: Genesis, Hydrology, Landscapes, and Classification. 2nd Ed. Edited by M.J. Vepraskas and C.B. Craft. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL.

Wang, H., C.J. Richardson, M. Ho, and N. Flanagan. 2016. Drained coastal peatlands: A potential nitrogen source to marine ecosystems under prolonged drought and heavy storm events-A microcosm experiment. Science of the Total Environment 566-567:621-626. DOI information: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.211

Winton, R.S., M. Moorman, and C.J. Richardson. 2016. Waterfowl impoundments as sources of nitrogen pollution. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 227:390. doi:10.1007/s11270-016-3082-x

Deonairine, A., H. Hsu-Kim, T. Zhang, Y. Cai, and C.J. Richardson. 2015. Legacy source of mercury in an urban stream-wetland ecosystem in central North Carolina, USA.  Chemosphere. Doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.12.038.

Dudley, M.P., M. Ho, and C.J. Richardson. 2015. Riparian habitat dissimilarities in restored and reference streams are associated with differences in turtle communities in the Southeastern Piedmont. Wetlands 35:147-157. DOI 10.1007/s13157-014-0603-5

Flanagan, N.E., C.J. Richardson, and M. Ho. 2015 Connecting differential responses of native and invasive riparian plants to climate change and environmental alteration. Ecological Applications 25 (3):753-767. DOI 10.1890/14-0767.1. 

Lamers, L.P.M., M.A. Vile, A.P. Grootjans, M.C. Acreman, R. van Diggelen, M.G. Evans, C.J. Richardson, L. Rochefort, A.M. Kooijman, J.G.M. Roelofs, and A.P.J. Smolders. 2015. Ecological restoration of rich fens in Europe and North America: from trial and error to an evidence-based approach. Biological Reviews 90:188-203. doi: 10.1111/brv.12102.

Wang, H., C.J. Richardson, and M. Ho. 2015. Dual controls on carbon loss during drought in peatlands. Nature Climate Change 5:584-587. doi:10.1038/nclimate2643

Winton, R.S., and C.J. Richardson. 2015. The effects of organic matter amendments on greenhouse gas emissions from a mitigation wetland in Virginia’s Coastal Plain. Wetlands 35:969-979. DOI 10.1007/s13157-015-0674-y

Winton, R.S., and C.J. Richardson. 2015. A cost-effective method for reducing soil disturbance-induced errors in static chamber measurement of wetland methane emissions. Wetlands Ecology and Management DOI 10.1007/s11273-015-9468-5