Authors in bold are students and post-docs advised by Piehler – please email piehler(at)unc.edu for reprints.  More publication information is available here.

Smiley, AM, SP Thompson & MF Piehler. Chronic enrichment affects nitrogen removal in tidal freshwater river and estuarine creek sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality, in press.

Smiley, AM, SP Thompson, NS Hall & MF Piehler. 2023. Storm characteristics influence nitrogen removal in an urban estuarine environment. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 23, 3635–3649.

Johnson, C, L. Dubbs, and MF Piehler. 2023.  Reframing the contribution of pelagic Sargassum epiphytic N2 fixation. PLoS ONE 18(8): e0289485.

Gold, AC, C Brown, SP Thompson & MF Piehler. 2022  Inundation of stormwater infrastructure is common and increases risk of flooding in coastal urban areas.  Earth’s Future, 10, e2021EF002139.

Yacano, M, SP Thompson, and MF Piehler. 2022.  Non-native marsh grass (Phragmites australis) enhances both storm and ambient nitrogen removal capacity in marine systems. Estuaries and Coasts, 45:2012-2025.

Gold, AC, SP Thompson and MF Piehler. 2021.  Seasonal variation in nitrate removal mechanisms in coastal stormwater ponds.  Water Resources Research, 57, e2021WR029718.

Christensen, N, P Cunningham, K Matthews, I Anderson, M Brush, S Cohen, C Currin, S Ensign, N Hall, P Halpin, M Kirwan, J McNinch, H Paerl, M Piehler A Rodriguez, C Tobias, J Walters.  2021. Ecosystem-based management for military training, biodiversity, carbon storage and climate resiliency on a complex coastal land/water-scape.  Environmental Management, 280, 111755.

Dodd, LF, JH Grabowski, M.F. Piehler, I Westfield, JB Ries. 2021. Juvenile eastern oysters more resilient to extreme ocean acidification than their mud crab predators. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22 (2), e2020GC009180.

Gold, AC, SP Thompson, CL Magel, MF Piehler. 2020  Urbanization alters coastal plain stream carbon export and ecosystem function. Science of the Total Environment, 747, 141132.

Kimbro, DL, AE Scherer, JE Byers, JH Grabowski, AR Hughes, MF Piehler, DL. Smee. 2020. Environmental gradients influence biogeographic patterns of non-consumptive predator effects on oysters.  Ecosphere, 11 (10), e03260.

Grabowski, J, T Gouhier, J Byers, L Dodd, AR Hughes, M Piehler, D Kimbro. 2020 Regional environmental variation and local species interactions influence biogeographic structure on oyster reefs.  Ecology, 101 (2), e02921.