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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
80
Citations
21334
World Ranking
847
National Ranking
312

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Overview

Joy B. Zedler is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Ecology, Plant Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of ecological and environmental dynamics and include:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Joy B. Zedler include:

  • "Nitrogen fixation and other biogeochemically important features of Atacama Desert giant horsetail plant microbiomes inferred from metagenomic contig analysis" (2022), published in Annals of Botany
  • "Salt marsh restoration surprise: A subordinate species accumulates and shares nitrogen while outcompeting salt marsh dominants" (2022), published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Among frequent co-authors are:

  • Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna
  • Anchittha Satjarak
  • Linda E. Graham
  • Marie T. Trest
  • Jennifer J. Knack

The scientist has published multiple papers in the journals Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution and Annals of Botany. Their work largely addresses ecological and biological aspects of plant and ecosystem dynamics, with specific attention to microbial communities and biogeochemical processes in wetland and desert environments.

Joy B. Zedler was recognized as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Wetland resources : Status, trends, ecosystem services, and restorability

    Joy B. Zedler;Suzanne Kercher

  • Causes and Consequences of Invasive Plants in Wetlands: Opportunities, Opportunists, and Outcomes

    Joy B. Zedler;Suzanne Kercher

  • Progress in wetland restoration ecology

    Joy B. Zedler

  • Wetlands at your service: reducing impacts of agriculture at the watershed scale

    Joy B. Zedler

  • Tracking Wetland Restoration : Do Mitigation Sites Follow Desired Trajectories?

    Joy B. Zedler;John C. Callaway

  • Foundations of restoration ecology

    Margaret A. Palmer;Joy B. Zedler;Donald A. Falk

  • Food web analysis of southern California coastal wetlands using multiple stable isotopes

    T. J. Kwak;Joy B. Zedler

  • Ecosystem Alteration by Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Predation

    Stuart H. Hurlbert;Joy Zedler;Deborah Fairbanks

  • Handbook for Restoring Tidal Wetlands

    Joy B. Zedler

  • How sedge meadow soils, microtopography, and vegetation respond to sedimentation

    Katherine J. Werner;Joy B. Zedler

  • Multiple disturbances accelerate invasion of reed canary grass ( Phalaris arundinacea L.) in a mesocosm study

    Suzanne M. Kercher;Joy B. Zedler

  • Ecological Issues in Wetland Mitigation: An Introduction to the Forum

    Joy B. Zedler

  • Californian Salt-Marsh Vegetation: An Improved Model of Spatial Pattern

    Joy B. Zedler;John C. Callaway;Julie S. Desmond;Gabrielle Vivian-Smith

  • Differential invasion of a wetland grass explained by tests of nutrients and light availability on establishment and clonal growth.

    Deborah A. Maurer;Joy B. Zedler

  • Nitrogen Assessments in a Constructed and a Natural Salt Marsh of San Diego Bay.

    Rene Langis;Malgorzata Zalejko;Joy B. Zedler

  • Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points

    Kimberly A. Selkoe;Kimberly A. Selkoe;Thorsten Blenckner;Margaret R. Caldwell;Larry B. Crowder

  • Coastal Mitigation in Southern California: The Need for a Regional Restoration Strategy

    Joy B. Zedler

  • Flood tolerance in wetland angiosperms: a comparison of invasive and noninvasive species

    Suzanne M. Kercher;Joy B. Zedler

  • Can nutrients alone shift a sedge meadow towards dominance by the invasive Typha × glauca

    Isa Woo;Joy B. Zedler

  • Ecological Theory and Restoration Ecology

    Margaret A. Palmer;Joy B. Zedler;Donald A. Falk

Frequent Co-Authors

Carol A. Johnston
Carol A. Johnston South Dakota State University
Peggy Fong
Peggy Fong University of California, Los Angeles
Gregory B. Noe
Gregory B. Noe United States Geological Survey
R. Eugene Turner
R. Eugene Turner Louisiana State University
Margaret A. Palmer
Margaret A. Palmer University of Maryland, College Park
John A. Wiens
John A. Wiens Colorado State University
Benjamin S. Halpern
Benjamin S. Halpern University of California, Santa Barbara
Charles A. Simenstad
Charles A. Simenstad University of Washington
Richard B. Norgaard
Richard B. Norgaard University of California, Berkeley
Harindra J. S. Fernando
Harindra J. S. Fernando University of Notre Dame

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