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Ladd E. Johnson

Ladd E. Johnson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
5550
World Ranking
6645
National Ranking
414

Overview

Ladd E. Johnson is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their primary areas of study encompass Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and fields related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Their scholarly work predominantly focuses on marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine ecology and invasive species, coral and marine ecosystem studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and marine biology and environmental chemistry.

Frequent collaborators include Ignacio Garrido, Christopher W. McKindsey, Philippe Archambault, Karen Filbee-Dexter, and Kathleen A. MacGregor, reflecting long-term research partnerships across multiple projects and publications.

Johnson has published primarily in the following scientific venues:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and impact of Johnson's research:

  • First mussel settlement observed in Antarctica reveals the potential for future invasions, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Kelp in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: Current and Future Predictions of Habitat Suitability and Cover, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Kelp carbon sink potential decreases with warming due to accelerating decomposition, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Bacterial Communities Show Algal Host (Fucus spp.)/Zone Differentiation Across the Stress Gradient of the Intertidal Zone, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • The microbiome of the habitat-forming brown alga Fucus vesiculosus (Phaeophyceae) has similar cross-Atlantic structure that reflects past and present drivers, 2021, Journal of Phycology

Best Publications

  • Global regime shift dynamics of catastrophic sea urchin overgrazing

    S. D. Ling;R. E. Scheibling;A. Rassweiler;C. R. Johnson

  • Overland dispersal of aquatic invasive species: a risk assessment of transient recreational boating.

    Ladd E. Johnson;Anthony Ricciardi;James T. Carlton

  • Post-Establishment Spread in Large-Scale Invasions: Dispersal Mechanisms of the Zebra Mussel Dreissena Polymorpha

    Ladd E. Johnson;James T. Carlton

  • Geographic spread of exotic species: Ecological lessons and opportunities from the invasion of the zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha

    Ladd E. Johnson;Dianna K. Padilla

  • SURVIVAL OF FUCOID EMBRYOS IN THE INTERTIDAL ZONE DEPENDS UPON DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE AND MICROHABITAT1

    Susan H. Brawley;Ladd E. Johnson

  • Forecasting the expansion of zebra mussels in the United States.

    Jonathan M. Bossenbroek;Ladd E. Johnson;Brett Peters;David M. Lodge

  • Gametogenesis, gametes and zygotes: An ecological perspective on sexual reproduction in the algae

    Susan H. Brawley;Ladd E. Johnson

  • Temporal variation in community interfaces: kelp-bed boundary dynamics adjacent to persistent urchin barrens

    P. Gagnon;J. H. Himmelman;L. E. Johnson

  • Settling barnacle larvae avoid substrata previously occupied by a mobile predator

    Ladd E. Johnson;Richard R. Strathmann

  • Enhanced early detection and enumeration of zebra mussel (Dreissena spp.) veligers using cross-polarized light microscopy

    Ladd E. Johnson

  • Kelp distribution in the northwest Atlantic Ocean under a changing climate

    Anissa Merzouk;Ladd Erik Johnson

  • Historical invasions of the intertidal zone of Atlantic North America associated with distinctive patterns of trade and emigration

    Susan H. Brawley;James A. Coyer;April M. H. Blakeslee;Galice Hoarau

  • Dispersal and recruitment of a canopy-forming intertidal alga: the relative roles of propagule availability and post-settlement processes.

    Ladd E. Johnson;Susan H. Brawley

  • Local enhancement of epibenthic macrofauna by aquaculture activities

    Olivier D’Amours;Philippe Archambault;Christopher W. McKindsey;Ladd E. Johnson

  • Patterns and Pathways in the Post-Establishment Spread of Non-Indigenous Aquatic Species: The Slowing Invasion of North American Inland Lakes by the Zebra Mussel

    Ladd E. Johnson;Jonathan M. Bossenbroek;Clifford E. Kraft

  • Macroalgal canopies: distribution and diversity of associated invertebrates and effects on the recruitment and growth of mussels

    Chantale Bégin;Ladd E. Johnson;John H. Himmelman

  • Distribution and feeding ecology of the seastars Leptasterias polaris and Asterias vulgaris in the northern Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada

    Carlos F. Gaymer;John H. Himmelman;Ladd E. Johnson

  • LANDSCAPE PATTERNS OF AN AQUATIC INVADER: ASSESSING DISPERSAL EXTENT FROM SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS

    Clifford E. Kraft;Patrick J. Sullivan;Alexander Y. Karatayev;Lyubov E. Burlakova

  • Gamete Release at Low Tide in Fucoid Algae: Maladaptive or Advantageous?

    Susan H. Brawley;Ladd E. Johnson;Gareth A. Pearson;Vladislav Speransky

  • Algal colonization in urchin barrens: defense by association during recruitment of the brown alga Agarum cribrosum

    Patrick Gagnon;John H. Himmelman;Ladd E. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Himmelman
John H. Himmelman Université Laval
Philippe Archambault
Philippe Archambault Université Laval
Anne K. Salomon
Anne K. Salomon Simon Fraser University
Clifford E. Kraft
Clifford E. Kraft Cornell University
Dianna K. Padilla
Dianna K. Padilla Stony Brook University
Sean D. Connell
Sean D. Connell University of Adelaide
James T. Carlton
James T. Carlton Williams College
Galice Hoarau
Galice Hoarau Nord University
Carlos F. Gaymer
Carlos F. Gaymer Universidad Católica del Norte
Craig R. Johnson
Craig R. Johnson University of Tasmania

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