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1110
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  • 2012 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

J. Patrick Megonigal is affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the United States and has a prolific research record primarily in Environmental Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Plant Science, and Oceanography.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and peatlands and wetlands ecology, with additional attention to geology and paleoclimatology, fire effects on ecosystems, plant responses to water stress, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

J. Patrick Megonigal has contributed papers to a variety of academic venues. Among the most frequent publication outlets are the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, Estuaries and Coasts, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Significant recent papers include the following:

  • "Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients," 2020, Ecological Monographs
  • "Operationalizing marketable blue carbon," 2022, One Earth
  • "Oxygen priming induced by elevated CO2 reduces carbon accumulation and methane emissions in coastal wetlands," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Processes and mechanisms of coastal woody-plant mortality," 2022, Global Change Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Vanessa Bailey, Roy Rich, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Genevieve L. Noyce, and Nicholas Ward.

J. Patrick Megonigal was recognized as a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Tidal wetland stability in the face of human impacts and sea-level rise

    Matthew L. Kirwan;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Estimating Global “Blue Carbon” Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems

    Linwood Pendleton;Daniel C. Donato;Brian C. Murray;Stephen Crooks

  • THE CARBON BALANCE OF NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS

    Scott D. Bridgham;J. Patrick Megonigal;Jason K. Keller;Norman B. Bliss

  • The future of Blue Carbon science

    Peter I. Macreadie;Andrea Anton;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;John A. Raven;Nicola Beaumont

  • Salinity Influence on Methane Emissions from Tidal Marshes

    Hanna J. Poffenbarger;Brian A. Needelman;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Natural climate solutions for the United States.

    Joseph E. Fargione;Steven Bassett;Timothy Boucher;Scott D. Bridgham

  • Moving Beyond Global Warming Potentials to Quantify the Climatic Role of Ecosystems

    Scott C. Neubauer;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Below-ground process responses to elevated CO2 and temperature: a discussion of observations, measurement methods, and models

    Elise Pendall;Scott Bridgham;Paul J. Hanson;Bruce Hungate

  • Wetland carbon storage controlled by millennial-scale variation in relative sea-level rise

    Kerrylee Rogers;Jeffrey J. Kelleway;Neil Saintilan;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Sap-flux-scaled transpiration responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and leaf area reduction in a flooded Taxodium distichum forest.

    R. Oren;N. Phillips;B. E. Ewers;D. E. Pataki

  • Iron-oxidizing bacteria are associated with ferric hydroxide precipitates (Fe-plaque) on the roots of wetland plants

    David Emerson;David Emerson;Johanna V. Weiss;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Elevated CO2 stimulates marsh elevation gain, counterbalancing sea-level rise

    J. Adam Langley;Karen L. McKee;Donald R. Cahoon;Julia A. Cherry

  • Contributions of Organic and Inorganic Matter to Sediment Volume and Accretion in Tidal Wetlands at Steady State

    James T. Morris;Donald C. Barber;John C. Callaway;Randy Chambers

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Total ecosystem carbon stocks of mangroves across broad global environmental and physical gradients

    J. Boone Kauffman;Maria Fernanda Adame;Virni Budi Arifanti;Lisa M. Schile‐Beers

  • Aboveground Production in Southeastern Floodplain Forests: A Test of the Subsidy-Stress Hypothesis

    J. Patrick Megonigal;William H. Conner;Steven Kroeger;Rebecca R. Sharitz

  • Ecosystem response to elevated CO2 levels limited by nitrogen-induced plant species shift

    J. Adam Langley;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Life at the Energetic Edge: Kinetics of Circumneutral Iron Oxidation by Lithotrophic Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria Isolated from the Wetland-Plant Rhizosphere

    Scott C. Neubauer;David Emerson;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Enumeration of Fe(II)-oxidizing and Fe(III)-reducing bacteria in the root zone of wetland plants: Implications for a rhizosphere iron cycle

    Johanna V. Weiss;David Emerson;Stephanie M. Backer;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

    Kimberly J. Komatsu;Meghan L. Avolio;Nathan P. Lemoine;Forest Isbell

  • SEASONAL PATTERNS AND PLANT‐MEDIATED CONTROLS OF SUBSURFACE WETLAND BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

    Scott C. Neubauer;Scott C. Neubauer;Kim Givler;SarahKeith Valentine;SarahKeith Valentine;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Geochemical control of microbial Fe(III) reduction potential in wetlands: comparison of the rhizosphere to non-rhizosphere soil

    Johanna V. Weiss;David Emerson;J.Patrick Megonigal

Frequent Co-Authors

Bert G. Drake
Bert G. Drake Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Bruce A. Hungate
Bruce A. Hungate Northern Arizona University
David Emerson
David Emerson Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Ariana E. Sutton-Grier
Ariana E. Sutton-Grier United States Geological Survey
James W. Fourqurean
James W. Fourqurean Florida International University
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Matthew L. Kirwan
Matthew L. Kirwan Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Paul Dijkstra
Paul Dijkstra Northern Arizona University
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee

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