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Overview

Dennis F. Whigham is affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the United States, specializing in research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their scholarly contributions span a variety of topics primarily focused on ecology, vegetation dynamics, and ecosystem processes in coastal and terrestrial environments.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with 23 publications, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, encompassing 15 publications. Subfields within these areas further highlight their focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (11 publications), Nature and Landscape Conservation (10 publications), Ecology (10 publications), Oceanography (5 publications), and Plant Science (4 publications).

Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Plant Biology
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Aeolian Processes and Effects
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology

Their publications appear frequently in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, Plants, Wetlands Ecology and Management, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, and Estuaries and Coasts.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Melissa McCormick
  • Karin M. Kettenring
  • Hope Brooks
  • Sylvia Jacobson
  • Andrew H. Baldwin

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Dennis F. Whigham illustrate their ongoing research interests:

  • "Protocorm-Supporting Fungi Are Retained in Roots of Mature Tipularia discolor Orchids as Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity Increases," 2021, Plants
  • "Linking landscape attributes to salmon and decision-making in the southern Kenai Lowlands, Alaska, USA," 2021, Ecology and Society
  • "Shoreline modification affects recruitment of invasive Phragmites australis," 2020, Wetlands Ecology and Management
  • "Low-level dissolved organic carbon subsidies drive a trophic upsurge in a boreal stream," 2020, Freshwater Biology
  • "Hybridization in the Fringed Orchids: An Analysis of Species Boundaries in the Face of Gene Flow," 2023, Diversity

Best Publications

  • Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

    Carl Folke;Steve Carpenter;Brian Walker;Marten Scheffer

  • Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

    John W. Day;Donald F. Boesch;Ellis J. Clairain;G. Paul Kemp

  • SPATIAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR LINKING WATERSHED LAND COVER TO ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN STREAMS

    Ryan S. King;Matthew E. Baker;Dennis F. Whigham;Donald E. Weller

  • Effects of forest fragmentation on breeding bird communities in Maryland, USA

    James F. Lynch;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Ecology of woodland herbs in temperate deciduous forests

    Dennis F. Whigham

  • PLANT‐MEDIATED CONTROLS ON NUTRIENT CYCLING IN TEMPERATE FENS AND BOGS

    R. Aerts;Jos T. A. Verhoeven;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Nitrogen vs. phosphorus limitation across an ecotonal gradient in a mangrove forest

    Ilka C. Feller;Karen L. McKee;Dennis F. Whigham;John P. O'Neill

  • Freshwater Wetlands: Ecological Processes and Management Potential

    Ralph E. Good;Dennis F. Whigham;Robert L. Simpson

  • Seed ecology of dust seeds in situ: a new study technique and its application in terrestrial orchids

    Hanne N. Rasmussen;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Mycorrhizal diversity in photosynthetic terrestrial orchids

    Melissa K. McCormick;Dennis F. Whigham;J. O'Neill

  • Costs of Flower and Fruit Production in Tipularia Discolor (Orchidaceae)

    Allison A. Snow;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Nutrient and sediment removal by a restored wetland receiving agricultural runoff.

    Thomas E. Jordan;Dennis F. Whigham;Kirsten H. Hofmockel;Mary A. Pittek

  • The impact of Hurricane Gilbert on trees, litterfall, and woody debris in a dry tropical forest in the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula

    Dennis F. Whigham;Ingrid Olmsted;Edgar Cabrera Cano;Mark E. Harmon

  • Nitrogen limitation of growth and nutrient dynamics in a disturbed mangrove forest, Indian River Lagoon, Florida

    Ilka C. Feller;Dennis F. Whigham;Karen L. McKee;Catherine E. Lovelock

  • Ecological issues related to wetland preservation, restoration, creation and assessment

    Dennis F Whigham

  • Growth and senescence in plant communities exposed to elevated CO2 concentrations on an estuarine marsh.

    Peter S. Curtis;Bert G. Drake;Paul W. Leadley;Willem J. Arp

  • EFFECTS OF NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT ON WITHIN‐STAND CYCLING IN A MANGROVE FOREST

    Ilka C. Feller;Dennis F. Whigham;John P. O’Neill;Karen L. McKee

  • Decomposition and mass of woody detritus in the dry tropical forests of the Northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

    Mark E. Harmon;Dennis F. Whigham;Jay Sexton;Ingrid Olmsted

  • Phragmites australis management in the United States: 40 years of methods and outcomes

    Eric L. G. Hazelton;Eric L. G. Hazelton;Thomas J. Mozdzer;Thomas J. Mozdzer;David M. Burdick;Karin M. Kettenring;Karin M. Kettenring

  • Nitrogen and carbon dynamics in C3 and C4 estuarine marsh plants grown under elevated CO2 in situ.

    Peter S. Curtis;Bert G. Drake;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Sexual dimorphism and cost of reproduction in the dioecious shrub Lindera benzoin (Lauraceae)

    Martin L. Cipollini;Dennis F. Whigham

  • Freshwater Wetlands. Ecological Processes and Management Potential.

    Richard Stalter;Ralph E. Good;Dennis F. Whigham;Robert L. Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin M. Kettenring
Karin M. Kettenring Utah State University
Thomas E. Jordan
Thomas E. Jordan Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Jos T. A. Verhoeven
Jos T. A. Verhoeven Utrecht University
Hiroshi Kudoh
Hiroshi Kudoh Kyoto University
Donald E. Weller
Donald E. Weller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Mark M. Brinson
Mark M. Brinson East Carolina University
Bert G. Drake
Bert G. Drake Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Hendrikus J. Laanbroek
Hendrikus J. Laanbroek Utrecht University
Marinus J. A. Werger
Marinus J. A. Werger Utrecht University
Ilka C. Feller
Ilka C. Feller Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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