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Irving A. Mendelssohn is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research mainly explores coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, with a focus on marine biology and ecology, geology, paleoclimatology, and topics related to oil spill detection and mitigation.

Their work spans several interconnected fields and subfields, including ecology, oceanography, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and pollution. Mendelssohn has contributed extensively to understanding the dynamics of coastal wetland environments, the effects of oil spills on vegetation and microbial communities, and interactions between sedimentation and vegetation types in subtropical salt marsh-mangrove areas.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Mendelssohn's frequent coauthors include Sean A. Graham, John W. Fleeger, Donald R. Deis, Scott Zengel, and David Samuel Johnson, indicating collaborative work across multiple projects.

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Ecological Applications
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Ecological Engineering
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

Representative recent papers authored by or involving Mendelssohn are:

  • Rapidly Changing Range Limits in a Warming World: Critical Data Limitations and Knowledge Gaps for Advancing Understanding of Mangrove Range Dynamics in the Southeastern USA, 2023, Estuaries and Coasts
  • Planting Spartina alterniflora in a salt marsh denuded of vegetation by an oil spill induces a rapid response in the soil microbial community, 2020, Ecological Engineering
  • Meta-analysis of salt marsh vegetation impacts and recovery: a synthesis following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Hurricane sedimentation in a subtropical salt marsh-mangrove community is unaffected by vegetation type, 2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Effects of Petroleum By-Products and Dispersants on Ecosystems, 2021, Oceanography

Best Publications

  • Ecological role and services of tropical mangrove ecosystems: a reassessment

    Shing Yip Lee;Jurgenne H. Primavera;Farid Dahdouh-Guebas;Karen McKee

  • Oxygen Deficiency in Spartina alterniflora Roots: Metabolic Adaptation to Anoxia

    I. A. Mendelssohn;K. L. Mckee;W. H. Patrick

  • Drought, Snails, and Large-Scale Die-Off of Southern U.S. Salt Marshes

    Brian R. Silliman;Johan van de Koppel;Mark D. Bertness;Lee E. Stanton

  • Mangrove sedimentation and response to relative sea-level rise

    Colin D Woodroffe;Kerrylee Rogers;Karen Mckee;Catherine E Lovelock

  • Mechanism for the hydrogen sulfide-induced growth limitation in wetland macrophytes

    Marguerite S. Koch;Irving A. Mendelssohn;Karen L. McKee

  • Reexamination of pore water sulfide concentrations and redox potentials near the aerial roots of Rhizophora mangle and Avicennia germinans

    Karen L. McKee;Irving A. Mendelssohn;Mark W. Hester

  • SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA DIE-BACK IN LOUISIANA: TIME-COURSE INVESTIGATION OF SOIL WATERLOGGING EFFECTS

    Irving A. Mendelssohn;Karen L. McKee

  • Eco-Physiological Controls on the Productivity of Spartina Alterniflora Loisel

    Irving A. Mendelssohn;James T. Morris

  • Oil Impacts on Coastal Wetlands: Implications for the Mississippi River Delta Ecosystem after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Irving A. Mendelssohn;Gary L. Andersen;Donald M. Baltz;Rex H. Caffey

  • Sulphide as a soil phytotoxin: differential responses in two marsh species

    M. S. Koch;I. A. Mendelssohn

  • Response of a freshwater marsh plant community to increased salinity and increased water level

    Karen L. McKee;Irving A. Mendelssohn

  • Acute salt marsh dieback in the Mississippi River deltaic plain: A drought-induced phenomenon?

    Karen L. McKee;Irving A. Mendelssohn;Michael D. Materne;Michael D. Materne

  • Impacts and recovery of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on vegetation structure and function of coastal salt marshes in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

    Qianxin Lin;Irving A. Mendelssohn

  • The combined effects of phytoremediation and biostimulation in enhancing habitat restoration and oil degradation of petroleum contaminated wetlands

    Qianxin Lin;Irving A Mendelssohn

  • Species and population variation to salinity stress in Panicum hemitomon, Spartina patens, and Spartina alterniflora: morphological and physiological constraints

    Mark W. Hester;Irving A. Mendelssohn;Karen L. McKee

  • The influence of vegetation, salinity, and inundation on seed banks of oligohaline coastal marshes

    Andrew H. Baldwin;Karen L. McKee;Irving A. Mendelssohn

  • Salt Marsh Dieback : An overview of recent events in the US

    Merryl Alber;Erick M. Swenson;Susan C. Adamowicz;Irving A. Mendelssohn

  • Effects of salinity and water level on coastal marshes: an experimental test of disturbance as a catalyst for vegetation change

    Andrew H Baldwin;Irving A Mendelssohn

  • Factors controlling the formation of oxidized root channels: A review

    Irving A. Mendelssohn;Barbara A. Kleiss;James S. Wakeley

  • Sediment subsidy: effects on soil–plant responses in a rapidly submerging coastal salt marsh

    Irving A Mendelssohn;Nathan L Kuhn

  • Nitrogen Metabolism in the Height Forms of Spartina Alterniflora in North Carolina

    Irving A. Mendelssohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen L. McKee
Karen L. McKee United States Geological Survey
Hans Brix
Hans Brix Aarhus University
John W. Fleeger
John W. Fleeger Louisiana State University
David M. Burdick
David M. Burdick University of New Hampshire
Brian J. Wilsey
Brian J. Wilsey Iowa State University
William H. Orem
William H. Orem United States Geological Survey
Robert R. Lane
Robert R. Lane Louisiana State University
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Brian K. Sorrell
Brian K. Sorrell Aarhus University
Robert R. Twilley
Robert R. Twilley Louisiana State University

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