Marcus W. Beck

Nov 20, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Blake Simmons |Marcus W. Beck |Jessica Lewis |Kerry Flaherty-Walia

AbstractFor decades, federal protections were extended to wetlands adjacent to navigable "waters of the US" by the Clean Water Act. In its Sackett v. EPA ruling, however, the US Supreme Court redefined the meaning of "adjacent," eliminating protections to wetlands without a continuous surface connection to these waters (i.e., geographically isolated wetlands).

Jun 27, 2023 | frontiersin.org | Jamie Shutler |Andrew Fischer |Marcus W. Beck

1 IntroductionDissolved organic carbon (DOC) accounts for the largest fraction of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and plays a critical role in the functioning of an ecosystem as it fuels aquatic food webs and serves as a key component of the carbon cycle due to its wide range of chemical reactivity (Jaffé et al., 2008; Spencer et al., 2012).