Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Ury, Emily A., Puvaanah Arrumugam, Ellen Herbert, Pascal Badiou, Bryan Page, Nandita B. Basu. 2023. Source or Sink? Meta-analysis reveals diverging controls of phosphorus retention and release in restored and constructed wetlands. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace6bf

2. Ury, Emily A., Marcelo Ardón, Justin P. Wright, Emily S. Bernhardt. 2023. Restored forested wetland surprisingly resistant to experimental salinization. PLOS ONE 18(12): e0296128.  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296128

3. Shen, Wangzheng, Sisi Li, Nandita B. Basu, Emily A. Ury, Qianrui Jing, Liang Zhang. 2023. Size and temperature drive nutrient retention potential across water bodies in China. Water Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.120054   

4. Helton, Ashley M., et al. (including Emily A. Ury). 2023. At the interfaces of the hydrologic sciences: Connecting water, elements, ecosystems, and people through the major contributions of Dr. Emily Bernhardt. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129251

5. Ury, Emily A., Justin P. Wright, Marcelo Ardón, Emily S. Bernhardt. 2022. Saltwater intrusion in context: soil factors regulate impacts of salinity on soil carbon cycling. Biogeochemistry.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-021-00869-6 

6. Gerson, Jaqueline R., Natalie Szponar, Angelica Almeyda Zambrano, Bridget Bergquist, Eben Broadbent, Charles T. Driscoll, Luis E. Fernandez, Heileen Hsu-Kim, William Pan, Miles Silman, Emily A. Ury, Claudia Vega, Emily S. Bernhardt. 2022. Exceptionally high atmospheric mercury pollution captured by Amazon forests. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-27997-3

7. Ury, Emily A., Xi Yang, Emily S. Bernhardt, Justin P. Wright. 2021. Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape by sea level rise and extreme events. Ecological Applications. 31(5): e02339. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2339

*This paper received press coverage in over 100 news outlets (see highlights below), earning the #1 Altmetric score for an output from this journal. 

8.  Anderson, Steven M., Emily A. Ury, Paul Taillie, Eric Ungberg, Christopher Moorman, Ben Poulter, Marcelo Ardón, Emily S. Bernhardt, Justin P. Wright. 2021. Understory plants are reliable indicators of salinity thresholds in coastal wetlands. Plant Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-021-01209-2  

9. Gray, C. Patrick, Diego F. Chamorro, Justin T. Ridge, Hanna R. Kerner, Emily A. Ury, David W. Johnston.  2021. Temporally generalizable land cover classification: a recurrent convolutional neural network unveils major coastal change through time. Remote Sensing. 13(19): 3953. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13193953 

10.  White, Elliott, Emily A. Ury, Emily S. Bernhardt, Xi Yang.  2021. Climate Change Driving Widespread Loss of Forested Wetlands throughout the North American Coastal Plain. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00686-w 

11.  Wright, Justin P., David DeLaMater, Anita Simha, Emily A. Ury, Cari Ficken. 2020. Changes in prescribed fire frequency alter ecosystem carbon dynamics. Ecosystems. 24: 640-651.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00540-5

12.  Ury, Emily A., Steven M. Anderson, Robert K. Peet, Emily S. Bernhardt, Justin P. Wright. 2020. Succession, regression and loss: does evidence of saltwater exposure explain recent changes in the tree communities of North Carolina’s coastal plain? Annals of Botany. 125(2): 255–263. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz039 

13.  Bhattachan, Abi, Ryan E. Emanuel, Marcelo Ardón, Emily S. Bernhardt, Steven M. Anderson, Matthew G. Stillwagon, Emily A. Ury, Todd K. Bendor, Justin P. Wright. 2018. Evaluating the effects of land-use change and future climate change on vulnerability of coastal landscapes to saltwater intrusion. Elementa. 6(1):62. http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.316