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Overview

David A. Wedin is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with notable contributions across subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientific interests of David A. Wedin focus on a range of topics within environmental and ecological studies. Key areas of work include:

  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies

The researcher has published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • Land-Use Type as a Driver of Large Wildfire Occurrence in the U.S. Great Plains, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Fire legacies, heterogeneity, and the importance of mixed-severity fire in ponderosa pine savannas, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Targeted grazing and mechanical thinning enhance forest stand resilience under a narrow range of wildfire scenarios, 2022, Ecosphere
  • Monitoring for spatial regimes in rangelands, 2020, Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Ecophysio-optical traits of semiarid Nebraska grasslands under different Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa canopy covers, 2021, Ecological Indicators

David A. Wedin frequently collaborates with a consistent group of coauthors, including:

  • Victoria M. Donovan
  • Dirac Twidwell
  • Caleb P. Roberts
  • Carissa L. Wonkka
  • Craig R. Allen

The venues where David A. Wedin's work most commonly appears include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Remote Sensing
  • Ecosphere
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Ecological Indicators

Best Publications

  • The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes

    David Tilman;Johannes Knops;David Wedin;Peter Reich

  • Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems

    David Tilman;David Wedin;Johannes Knops

  • Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment

    David Tilman;Peter B Reich;Johannes M Knops;David Wedin

  • Long‐term dynamics of pine and hardwood litter in contrasting environments: toward a global model of decomposition

    Henry L. Gholz;David A. Wedin;Stephen M. Smitherman;Mark E. Harmon

  • Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses

    David A. Wedin;David Tilman

  • Influence of nitrogen loading and species composition on the carbon balance of grasslands

    David A. Wedin;David Tilman

  • Plant diversity enhances ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition

    Peter Bernard Reich;Jean Knops;David Tilman;Joseph M Craine

  • Mechanisms of plant species impacts on ecosystem nitrogen cycling

    J. M. H. Knops;K. L. Bradley;D. A. Wedin

  • Linking leaf and root trait syndromes among 39 grassland and savannah species

    M. G. Tjoelker;M. G. Tjoelker;J. M. Craine;D. Wedin;Peter B Reich

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • The relationships among root and leaf traits of 76 grassland species and relative abundance along fertility and disturbance gradients

    J. M. Craine;J. Froehle;D. G. Tilman;D. A. Wedin

  • Competition Among Grasses Along a Nitrogen Gradient: Initial Conditions and Mechanisms of Competition

    David Wedin;David Wedin;David Tilman

  • The biogeography of c4 photosynthesis ; patterns and controlling factors

    Rowan F Sage;D.A. Wedin;L. Meirong;Russell K Monson

  • Plant Traits and Resource Reduction For Five Grasses Growing on a Nitrogen Gradient

    David Tilman;David Wedin

  • Functional traits, productivity and effects on nitrogen cycling of 33 grassland species

    J. M. Craine;D. Tilman;D. Wedin;P. Reich

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen availability: Nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and soil respiration potentials

    G. P. Robertson;D. Wedin;P. M. Groffmann;J. M. Blair

  • Plant and Soil Controls on Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities

    Nancy Collins Johnson;David Tilman;David Wedin

  • Carbon Isotope Dynamics During Grass Decomposition and Soil Organic Matter Formation

    David A. Wedin;Larry L. Tieszen;Bradley Dewey;John Pastor

  • DYNAMICS OF NITROGEN COMPETITION BETWEEN SUCCESSIONAL GRASSES

    David Tilman;David Wedin

  • FIRE AND VEGETATION EFFECTS ON PRODUCTIVITY AND NITROGEN CYCLING ACROSS A FOREST-GRASSLAND CONTINUUM

    Peter B. Reich;David W. Peterson;David A. Wedin;Keith Wrage

Frequent Co-Authors

David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Joseph M. Craine
Joseph M. Craine Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Dirac Twidwell
Dirac Twidwell University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Johannes M. H. Knops
Johannes M. H. Knops Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Shahid Naeem
Shahid Naeem Columbia University
Craig R. Allen
Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Mark G. Tjoelker
Mark G. Tjoelker Western Sydney University
David S. Ellsworth
David S. Ellsworth Western Sydney University
Rhae A. Drijber
Rhae A. Drijber University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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