Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept by Robert D. Davic

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Integrating Food Waste Diversion into Food Systems Planning: A Case Study of the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley, Angel Arroyo-Rodríguez

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Assessing the Impacts of Chloride and Sulfate Ions on Macroinvertebrate Communities in Ohio Streams by Robert Miltner

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Dataset of leachate volumes and surface areas for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills in Ohio, USA from 1988–2020 by Max J. Krause, Natalie Detwiler, William Eades, Davin Marro, Amy Schwarber, Thabet Tolaymat

“…Data were extracted from publicly available Annual Operational Reports from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) and consolidated into a digital dataset of two delimited text files. …”
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Macroinvertebrate community diversity and habitat quality relationships along a large river from targeted eDNA metabarcode assays by Nathaniel T. Marshall, Carol A. Stepien

“…Multiple alpha (richness, Shannon Index, and Simpson's Index) and beta (Bray–Curtis and Sørensen dissimilarities) diversity metrics from the metabarcode assays were compared with an Invertebrate Community Index (ICI) metric calculated from traditional morphological sampling surveys conducted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The 15 Maumee River sites varied in their ICI scores (ranging from 4 to 46), with seven sites rated as “poor” or “very poor” and eight scoring “fair” or “good.” …”
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Landscaping Locally: Fostering Stewardship with Real Science in High School Curricula by Sajit Zachariah, Mary Louise Holly, Dennis J. Taylor

“…By using "real science", i.e. the bio-monitoring protocols of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, students recognize that they themselves can use science to assess and improve the health of their local environments. …”
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