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Overview

Glenn R. Guntenspergen is affiliated with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant concentration on ecology, earth-surface processes, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple topics, including coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, geology and paleoclimatology research, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, fire effects on ecosystems, and aeolian processes and effects.

Some of the frequent coauthors collaborating with Guntenspergen include:

  • Karen M. Thorne
  • James B. Grace
  • Michael J. Osland
  • Joel A. Carr
  • Katya E. Kovalenko

Guntenspergen has contributed to various scientific publications, often appearing in venues such as:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Science
  • Science Advances
  • Nature

Among the recent papers featuring work associated with or relevant to Guntenspergen's field are:

  • Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise (2022, Science)
  • Migration and transformation of coastal wetlands in response to rising seas (2022, Science Advances)
  • Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C (2023, Nature)
  • Reconciling models and measurements of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise (2022, Limnology and Oceanography Letters)
  • Coastal Marsh Degradation Into Ponds Induces Irreversible Elevation Loss Relative to Sea Level in a Microtidal System (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

Guntenspergen's research addresses the dynamics of coastal wetlands and their responses to environmental pressures such as sea level rise and climate change. Their studies contribute data and analysis on ecosystem dynamics, vulnerability of marshes, and the broader impact of coastal habitat changes in the context of warming global temperatures.

Their extensive publication record reflects a sustained engagement with field research and environmental monitoring, contributing to understanding the interactions between natural processes and environmental management considerations within coastal and marine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Matthew L. Kirwan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Andrea D'Alpaos;James T. Morris

  • The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Donald R. Cahoon;Daniel A. Friess;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Overestimation of marsh vulnerability to sea level rise

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Stijn Temmerman;Emily E. Skeehan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Numerical models of salt marsh evolution: Ecological, geomorphic, and climatic factors

    Sergio Fagherazzi;Matthew Lynn Kirwan;Matthew Lynn Kirwan;Simon Marius Mudd;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Guidelines for a graph‐theoretic implementation of structural equation modeling

    James B. Grace;Donald R. Schoolmaster;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Amanda M. Little

  • Vulnerability of Northern Prairie Wetlands to Climate Change

    W. Carter Johnson;Bruce V. Millett;Tagir Gilmanov;Richard A. Voldseth

  • Urban Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Applications

    Jari Niemelä;Jürgen H. Breuste;Thomas Elmqvist;Glenn Guntenspergen

  • U.S. Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise

    Karen Thorne;Glen MacDonald;Glenn Guntenspergen;Richard Ambrose

  • Prairie Wetland Complexes as Landscape Functional Units in a Changing Climate

    W. Carter Johnson;Brett Werner;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Richard A. Voldseth

  • Feedbacks between inundation, root production, and shoot growth in a rapidly submerging brackish marsh

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • A global standard for monitoring coastal wetland vulnerability to accelerated sea-level rise

    Edward L. Webb;Daniel A. Friess;Ken W. Krauss;Donald R. Cahoon

  • Latitudinal trends in Spartina alterniflora productivity and the response of coastal marshes to global change

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;James T. Morris

  • Hydrogeomorphic factors and ecosystem responses in coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes

    Janet R. Keough;Todd A. Thompson;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Douglas A. Wilcox

  • Methods for analyzing temporal changes in landscape patterns

    Christopher P. Dunn;David M. Sharpe;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;F. Stearns

  • Influence of tidal range on the stability of coastal marshland

    Matthew L. Kirwan;Matthew L. Kirwan;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Salt tolerance and osmotic adjustment of Spartina alterniflora (Poaceae) and the invasive M haplotype of Phragmites australis (Poaceae) along a salinity gradient.

    Edward A. Vasquez;Edward P. Glenn;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;J. Jed Brown

  • An integrated analysis of the effects of past land use on forest herb colonization at the landscape scale

    Kris Verheyen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Bernard Biesbrouck;Martin Hermy

  • Salt tolerance underlies the cryptic invasion of North American salt marshes by an introduced haplotype of the common reed Phragmites australis (Poaceae)

    Edward A. Vasquez;Edward P. Glenn;J. Jed Brown;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise

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  • Climate trends of the North American prairie pothole region 1906–2000

    Bruce Millett;W. Carter Johnson;Glenn R. Guntenspergen

  • Ecological benefits of the conservation reserve program

    Christopher P. Dunn;Forest Stearns;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;Glenn R. Guntenspergen;David M. Sharpe

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew L. Kirwan
Matthew L. Kirwan Virginia Institute of Marine Science
W. Carter Johnson
W. Carter Johnson South Dakota State University
James B. Grace
James B. Grace United States Geological Survey
Stijn Temmerman
Stijn Temmerman University of Antwerp
Donald R. Cahoon
Donald R. Cahoon United States Geological Survey
Neil K. Ganju
Neil K. Ganju United States Geological Survey
John Y. Takekawa
John Y. Takekawa United States Geological Survey
Glen M. MacDonald
Glen M. MacDonald University of California, Los Angeles
Sergio Fagherazzi
Sergio Fagherazzi Boston University
David E. Naugle
David E. Naugle University of Montana

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