Peter M Groffman

Biographic Data

ID222413
NAMEPeter M Groffman
GIVEN NAMESPeter M
FAMILY NAMEGroffman
SIGNATUREGROFFMAN P M
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
ORCID0000-0001-8371-6255
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Sweet spots for nitrogen reduction in a coastal watershed

    Open AccessPeter M Groffman, Alexander J Reisinger et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2026

  • Changes in extreme climate event frequencies have markedly different effects on watershed nitrogen exports than do changes in mean temperature and precipitation

    Open AccessNicolas Eduardo Maxfield, Richard A Smith et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Aquatic reactive nitrogen threatens human health and riverine and coastal ecosystems, yet its behavior under climate extremes remains poorly understood. Here we use a frequently cited SPAtially Referenced Regression On Watershed attributes (SPARROW) model to systematically assess the influence of climate extreme frequencies, defined by type intensity, duration, seasonality and co-occurrence of precipitation and temperature events, on the delivery…

  • N 2 Onet

    Open AccessWendy H Yang, Kaiyu Guan et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Nitrogen (N) fertilizer supports global food production, but its use and overuse drive emissions of nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a potent and long-lived greenhouse gas. Understanding the drivers of N 2 O fluxes remains elusive, making it difficult to predict emissions in time and space and to develop and evaluate ways to lower emissions through management. Major scientific uncertainties underlying the understanding of the drivers of N 2 O fluxes identi…

  • Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity

    Open AccessJennifer Holzer, J M Holzer et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2024

    Environmental knowledge networks (EKNs) link research collaborators in a common purpose to produce data and knowledge to better understand social-ecological phenomena and address environmental challenges. Over recent years, as scientists have grappled with how to produce data and actionable knowledge for conservation and sustainability, more EKNs have been established. Although each network is founded for its own purposes and maintains its own go…

  • Early warning signals of changing resilience in the biogeochemistry and biology of a northern hardwood forest

    Open AccessAlexandra R Contosta, John J Battles et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    Resilience is the ability of ecosystems to maintain function while experiencing perturbation. Globally, forests are experiencing disturbances of unprecedented quantity, type, and magnitude that may diminish resilience. Early warning signals are statistical properties of data whose increase over time may provide insights into decreasing resilience, but there have been few applications to forests. We quantified four early warning signals (standard …

  • Examining the potential to expand wildlife-supporting residential yards and gardens

    Open AccessKelli L Larson, Susannah B Lerman et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2022

  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

    Open AccessTimon Mcphearson, Elizabeth M Cook et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Spatial asynchrony in environmental and economic benefits of stream restoration

    Open AccessRuoyu Zhang, David A Newburn et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Stream restoration is widely used to mitigate the degradation of urban stream channels, protect infrastructure, and reduce sediment and nutrient loadings to receiving waterbodies. Stabilizing and revegetating riparian areas can also provide recreational opportunities and amenities, and improve quality of life for nearby residents. In this project, we developed indices of an environmental benefit (potential nitrate load reduction, a priority in th…

  • The Eco-Techno Spectrum

    Open AccessA Marissa Matsler, Thomas R Miller et al.ARTICLEUrban Planning2021

    Infrastructure crises are not only technical problems for engineers to solve—they also present social, ecological, financial, and political challenges. Addressing infrastructure problems thus requires a robust planning process that includes examination of the social and ecological systems supporting infrastructure, alongside technical systems. An integrative Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) analysis of infrastructure solutions…

  • Improving the social cost of nitrous oxide

    Open AccessDavid Kanter, Claudia Wagner‐Riddle et al.ARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • Applying a novel systems approach to address systemic environmental injustices

    Open AccessSara Perl Egendorf, Peter M Groffman et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2021

    The knowledge of unsustainable human and Earth system interactions is widespread, especially in light of systemic environmental injustices. Systems science has enabled complex and rigorous understandings of human and Earth system dynamics, particularly relating to pollution of Earth’s land, water, air, and organisms. Given that many of these systems are not functioning sustainably or optimally, how might this field enable both rigorous understand…

  • Ghosts of landuse past

    Open AccessShreeram Inamdar, Marc Peipoch et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Milldams and their legacies have significantly influenced fluvial processes and geomorphology. However, less is known about their effects on riparian zone hydrology, biogeochemistry, and water quality. Here, we discuss the potential effects of existing and breached milldams on riparian nitrogen (N) processing through multiple competing hypotheses and observations from complementary studies. Competing hypotheses characterize riparian zone processe…

  • Ambiguity and clarity in residential yard ordinances across metropolitan areas in the United States

    Jesse M Engebretson, Kristen C Nelson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2021References: 4

    Despite the social and ecological importance of residential spaces across the country, scant research examines urban yard management policies in the U.S. Governance scholarship points to the implementation challenges of navigating policy language. Our research provides an exploration of yard ordinance language, with implications for communities across the U.S. Specifically, we sought to determine whether—and in what instances—vegetation- and grou…

  • Operationalizing resilience

    Open AccessKatinka Wijsman, D S Novem Auyeung et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2021

    Wijsman, K., D. S. N. Auyeung, P. Brashear, B. F. Branco, K. Graziano, P. M. Groffman, H. Cheng, and D. Corbett. 2021. Operationalizing resilience: co-creating a framework to monitor hard, natural, and nature-based shoreline features in New York State. Ecology and Society 26(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12182-260310

  • Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional composition and homogenization of residential yard vegetation with contrasting management

    Open AccessJosep Padullés Cubino, Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

  • Linking yard plant diversity to homeowners’ landscaping priorities across the U.S

    Open AccessJosep Padullés Cubino, Meghan L Avolio et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2020

  • How the Nonhuman World Influences Homeowner Yard Management in the American Residential Macrosystem

    Open AccessJesse M Engebretson, Kristen C Nelson et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2020

  • A community nitrogen footprint analysis of Baltimore City, Maryland

    Open AccessElizabeth Dukes, Elizabeth S M Dukes et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    The nitrogen footprint tool (NFT) provides a novel way for communities to understand the environmental impacts of their collective activities and consumption. Reactive nitrogen (Nr; all N species except N 2 ) is created by the Haber–Bosch process for food production and as a by-product of fossil fuel combustion and two natural processes, biological nitrogen fixation and lightning. While it is a vital input for food production, too much Nr has a n…

  • Social Norms, Yard Care, and the Difference between Front and Back Yard Management

    Dexter H Locke, Rinku Roy Chowdhury et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2018Cited by: 2References: 1

    Many factors influence yard care in urban and suburban areas, but the explicit difference between front versus back yards is one factor that has not been fully examined. This paper introduces the Landscape Mullet concept. The two key components of this concept are: (1) social norms are an important driver of yard management; and (2) the influence of those norms varies spatially between front (public) to back (private). Thirty-six semi-structured …

  • Meeting the challenge of interacting threats in freshwater ecosystems

    Open AccessLaura S Craig, Julian D Olden et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2017

    Human activities create threats that have consequences for freshwater ecosystems and, in most watersheds, observed ecological responses are the result of complex interactions among multiple threats and their associated ecological alterations. Here we discuss the value of considering multiple threats in research and management, offer suggestions for filling knowledge gaps, and provide guidance for addressing the urgent management challenges posed …

  • Satisfaction, water and fertilizer use in the American residential macrosystem

    Open AccessPeter M Groffman, J Morgan Grove et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    © The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Environmental Research Letters 11 (2016): 034004, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034004

  • Type and timing of stream flow changes in urbanizing watersheds in the Eastern U.S

    Open AccessKristina G Hopkins, Nathaniel B Morse et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2015

    Linking the type and timing of hydrologic changes with patterns of urban growth is essential to identifying the underlying mechanisms that drive declines in urban aquatic ecosystems. In six urbanizing watersheds surrounding three U.S. cities (Baltimore, MD, Boston, MA, and Pittsburgh, PA), we reconstructed the history of development patterns since 1900 and assessed the magnitude and timing of stream flow changes during watershed development. Deve…

  • Bacteria and fungi associated with isoprene consumption in soil

    Open AccessChristopher Gray, Christopher M Gray et al.ARTICLEElementa Science of the…2015

    Isoprene is a reactive volatile organic compound released from the biosphere that can be abundant in the planetary boundary layer, where it can have a myriad of effects on atmospheric chemistry and secondary aerosol formation. There is currently a high degree of uncertainty in forecasts of how atmospheric isoprene concentrations will shift in response to anthropogenic land-use change and climate change. One source of this uncertainty is that stud…

  • Preliminary results from monitoring of stream nitrogen concentrations, denitrification, and nitrification potentials in an urbanizing watershed in Xiamen, southeast China

    Jinbo Gao, Qian Wu et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2013

    As a part of the Long-term Urban Ecosystem Observation and Research Station in Xiamen (Xiamen LUEORS) with the Environmental Internet of Things (EIoT) as its technical support, southeast China by the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, long-term monitoring was established in an urbanizing watershed to understand the effects of urbanization on stream water quality. Six monitoring sites were established within forested head…

  • Urban ecological systems

    Open AccessSteward T A Pickett, Mary L Cadenasso et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental Management2011