Dan Childers

Professor, School of Sustainability

Associate Director for Research Development, Global Institute of Sustainability

ecosystems ecology; wetland ecology; aquatic ecology; estuarine ecology; water; sustainability

SOS 110: Sustainable World

SOS 535: Sustainable Ecosystems

Dr. Childers' research focuses on wetland ecosystem ecology, in particular questions about controls on primary production, biogeochemical cycling, and soil dynamics. He has worked in both forested and herbaceous wetland ecosystems, and in many different freshwater and estuarine systems around the world. He led the Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research project from its inception in 2000 until 2008. Dr. Childers teaches the course, Sustainable World.

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Childers, D. L., J. N. Boyer, S. E. Davis III, C. J. Madden, D. T. Rudnick, and F. H. Sklar. 2006. Relating precipitation and water management to nutrient concentrations in the oligotrophic "upside down" estuaries of the Florida Everglades. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51(1, part 2):602-616.

Childers, D. L., D. Iwaniec, D. Rondeau, G. Rubio, E. Verdon, and C. Madden. In review. Primary productivity in Everglades marshes demonstrates the sensitivity of oligotrophic ecosystems to environmental drivers. Ecological Applications.

Childers, D. L. 2001. A review of Modelling for All Scales - An Introduction to System Simulation, by Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Odum. The Quarterly Review of Biology 76(2):217-218.

Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1989

M.S., University of South Carolina, 1985

B.A., University of Virginia, 1983