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D. Dudley Williams

D. Dudley Williams

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
58
Citations
13219
World Ranking
2549
National Ranking
166

Overview

D. Dudley Williams is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has made contributions primarily in the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on Ecology and related subfields. Their research encompasses Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics such as Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond.

Key recent publications include the following:

  • The sustainable agriculture imperative: A perspective on the need for an agrosystem approach to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, 2021, Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
  • Ecological research 'in a good way' means ethical and equitable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and Lands, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Negative resistance and resilience: biotic mechanisms underpin delayed biological recovery in stream restoration, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Combining Tools from Edge-of-Field to In-Stream to Attenuate Reactive Nitrogen along Small Agricultural Waterways, 2020, Water

Dudley Williams collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Angus R. McIntosh, Helen J. Warburton, Jon S. Harding, Brandon C. Goeller, and Katie Collins. These coauthors have contributed jointly to multiple studies, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Their work is often published in venues such as the Journal of Great Lakes Research, Restoration Ecology, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Case Studies in the Environment, and Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, indicating a focus on applied and ecosystem-related environmental science research.

Best Publications

  • Buffer Zone versus Whole Catchment Approaches to Studying Land Use Impact on River Water Quality

    Lucie Sliva;D Dudley Williams

  • The biology of temporary waters.

    D. D. Williams

  • The Ecology of Temporary Waters

    D. Dudley Williams

  • Environmental Constraints in Temporary Fresh Waters and Their Consequences for the Insect Fauna

    D. Dudley Williams

  • The occurrence of benthos deep in the substratum of a stream

    D. Dudley Williams;H. B. N. Hynes

  • The recolonization mechanisms of stream benthos

    Dudley Williams;H.B.N. Hynes

  • Factors controlling riffle‐scale hyporheic exchange flows and their seasonal changes in a gaining stream: A three‐dimensional groundwater flow model

    Richard G. Storey;Kenneth W. F. Howard;D. Dudley Williams

  • How important are rare species in aquatic community ecology and bioassessment

    Yong Cao;Dudley D. Williams;Nancy E. Williams

  • Road salt contamination of groundwater in a major metropolitan area and development of a biological index to monitor its impact.

    D.Dudley Williams;Nancy E. Williams;Yong Cao

  • Response of Stream Invertebrates to a Global‐Warming Thermal Regime: An Ecosystem‐Level Manipulation

    Ian D. Hogg;Ian D. Hogg;D. Dudley Williams

  • Increased cuticular carbon sequestration and lignin oxidation in response to soil warming

    Xiaojuan Feng;André J. Simpson;Kevin P. Wilson;D. Dudley Williams

  • Temporary ponds and their invertebrate communities

    D. Dudley Williams;D. Dudley Williams

  • The Importance of Temporal Resolution in Food Web Analysis: Evidence from a Detritus-Based Stream

    Annette F. Tavares-Cromar;D. Dudley Williams

  • COMPARISON OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES: THE PROBLEM OF SAMPLE REPRESENTATIVENESS

    Yong Cao;D. Dudley Williams;David P. Larsen

  • Biological, chemical and physical characteristics of downwelling and upwelling zones in the hyporheic zone of a north-temperate stream

    Rob J. M. Franken;Richard G. Storey;D. Dudley Williams

  • Towards a biological and chemical definition of the hyporheic zone in two Canadian rivers

    D. Dudley Williams

  • The upstream/downstream movement paradox of lotic invertebrates: quantitative evidence from a Welsh mountain stream

    D. Dudley Williams;Nancy E. Williams

  • Some relationships between stream benthos and substrate heterogeneity

    D. Dudley Williams

  • The role of semiochemicals in benthic community relationships of the lotic amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus : a laboratory analysis

    D. Dudley Williams;Kathryn A. Moore

  • Perspectives and predictions on the microbial ecology of the hyporheic zone

    R. G. Storey;R. R. Fulthorpe;D. D. Williams

  • Behavior of Crayfish in Water Currents: Hydrodynamics of Eight Species with Reference to Their Distribution Patterns in Southern Ontario

    Stephen H. Maude;D. Dudley Williams

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian D. Hogg
Ian D. Hogg University of Waikato
Felix Bärlocher
Felix Bärlocher Mount Allison University
Margaret A. Palmer
Margaret A. Palmer University of Maryland, College Park
Hugh V. Danks
Hugh V. Danks Okayama University
John M. Eadie
John M. Eadie University of California, Davis
André J. Simpson
André J. Simpson University of Toronto
Myrna J. Simpson
Myrna J. Simpson University of Toronto
Ken W. F. Howard
Ken W. F. Howard University of Toronto
John A. Westgate
John A. Westgate University of Toronto
Byron C. Crump
Byron C. Crump Oregon State University

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