Journal Articles

  1. Baalousha M, Y Yang, M Vance, B Coleman, S McNeal, J Xu, J Blaszczak, MK Steele, E Bernhardt, M Hochella. Outdoor Urban Nanomaterials: The emergence of a new, integrated, and critical field of study.  (2016) Science of the Total Environment.
  2.  Aitkenhead-Peterson JA and Steele MK (2016) DOC and DON exports upstream and downstream of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metropolis, Texas, USA.  Marine and Freshwater Research.
  3.  Hall SJ, J Learned, B Ruddell, KL Larson, J Cavender-Bares, N Bettez, PM Groffman, JM Grove, JB Heffernan, SE Hobbie, JL Morse, C Neill, KC Nelson, JPM O’Neil-Dunne, L Ogden, DE Pataki, WD Pearse, C Polsky, R Roy Chowdhury, MK Steele, TLE Trammell (2015) Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States.  Landscapes Ecology. DOI.1007/s10980-015-0297-y
  4. Larson KL, KC Nelson, SR Samples, SJ Hall, N Bettez, J Cavender-Bares, PM Groffman, JM Grove, JB Heffernan, SE Hobbie, J Learned, JL Morse, C Neill, LA Ogden, J O’Neil-Dunne, DE Pataki, C Polsky, R Roy Chowdhury, MK Steele, TLE Trammell (2015) Ecosystem Services in Managing Residential Landscapes: Priorities, Value Dimensions, and Cross-Regional Patterns. Urban Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s11252-015-0477-1
  5. Steele, MK, JB Heffernan, N Bettez, J Cavernder-Bares, PM Groffman, M Grove, S Hall, SE Hobbie, K Larson, C Neill, KC Nelson, J O'Neil-Dunne, L Ogden, DE Pataki, C Polsky, R Roy Chowdhury (2014) Convergent hydrography in US cities.  Ecosystems. Ecosystems. DOI:10.1007/s10021-014-9751-y
  6. Steele MK, Heffernan JB (2014) Morphological characteristics of urban water bodies: mechanisms of change and implications for ecosystem function. Ecological Applications, 24(5):1070-1084.   
  7. Groffman, PM, J. Cavender-Bares, N. Bettez, M. Grove, J.B. Heffernan, S. Hall, S. E. Hobbie, K. Larson, J. L. Morse, C. Neill, K.C. Nelson, J. O’Neil-Dunne, L. Ogden, D.E. Pataki, C. Polsky, R. Roy Chowdhury, MK Steele (2014) Ecological homogenization of urban America.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
  8. Polsky C, JM Grove, C Knudson, PM Groffman, N Bettez, J Cavender-Bares, SJ Hall, JB Heffernan, SE Hobbie, KL Larson, JL Morse, C  Neill, KC Nelson, LA Ogden, J O’Neil-Dunne, DE Pataki, R Roy Chowdhury, MK Steele  (2014) Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care. PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1323995111
  9. Steele MK, Aitkenhead-Peterson JA (2012) Salt impacts on organic carbon and nitrogen leaching from senesced vegetation.  Biogeochemistry. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-012-9722-3
  10. Steele MK, Aitkenhead-Peterson JA (2012) Urban soils of Texas: Relating irrigation sodicity to water-extractable carbon and nutrients. Soil Science Society of America, 76:973-982.
  11. Steele MK, Coale FJ, Hill RL (2012) Winter annual cover crop impacts on no-till soil physical properties and organic matter.  Soil Science Society of America, DOI:
  12. Steele MK, Aitkenhead-Peterson JA (2011) Long-term sodium and chloride surface water exports from the Dallas/Fort Worth Region.  Science of the Total Environment, 409(16):3021-3032.
  13. Aitkenhead-Peterson JA, Steele MK, Nahar, N, Santhy K (2009) Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in urban and rural watersheds of south-central Texas: land use and land management influences. Biogeochemistry 96:119-129.



Book Chapters

  1.  Steele MK, McDowell WH, Aitkenhead-Peterson JA (2010) Chemistry of urban, sub-urban, and rural surface waters. In: JA Aitkenhead-Peterson and A Volder (Eds) Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. ASA, CSA,SSSA Madison WI, USA. .
  2. Aitkenhead-Peterson JA, Steele MK, Volder A (2010) Services in natural and human dominated ecosystems.  In: JA Aitkenhead-Peterson and A Volder (Eds) Urban Ecosystem Ecology. Agronomy Monograph 55. ASA, CSA,SSSA Madison WI, USA.