Exploring infiltration effects on coastal urban flooding: Insights from nuisance to extreme events using 2D/1D hydrodynamic modeling and crowdsourced flood reports.

Coastal urban flooding presents significant challenges due to the complex interactions between surface runoff, storm tides, and drainage systems. In highly impervious urban areas, infiltration may seem negligible, particularly during extreme events when soil saturation is rapidly exceeded. However, for nuisance flooding-becoming more frequent due to sea level rise and shifting rainfall patterns-the role of infiltration warrants closer examination.

Cascading effects of climate variability on the breeding success of an edge population of an apex predator.

Large-scale environmental forces can influence biodiversity at different levels of biological organization. Climate, in particular, is often associated with species distributions and diversity gradients. However, its mechanistic link to population dynamics is still poorly understood.