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Nathan J. Waltham

Nathan J. Waltham

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
3942
World Ranking
8091
National Ranking
632

Overview

Nathan J. Waltham is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science, with a primary focus on coastal and marine ecosystem research. Their work encompasses substantial contributions to the understanding of coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics and related environmental topics.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, including:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Waltham's main fields of study are Environmental Science with subfields in:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their recent papers illustrate a focus on coastal and ecosystem restoration and the impacts of environmental changes, including:

  • "High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth's tidal wetlands," 2022, published in Science
  • "UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030-What Chance for Success in Restoring Coastal Ecosystems?", 2020, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Environmental Flow Requirements of Estuaries: Providing Resilience to Current and Future Climate and Direct Anthropogenic Changes," 2021, published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • "Human Actions Alter Tidal Marsh Seascapes and the Provision of Ecosystem Services," 2020, published in Estuaries and Coasts
  • "Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality," 2022, published in Ecosystem Services

Frequent publication venues for Waltham include:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Waltham has collaborated extensively with other researchers in the field. Notable frequent co-authors are:

  • Marcus Sheaves
  • Catherine E. Lovelock
  • Rod M. Connolly
  • Michael Bradley
  • Ronald J. Baker

Best Publications

  • High-resolution mapping of losses and gains of Earth’s tidal wetlands

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  • UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030 - what chance for success in restoring coastal ecosystems?

    Nathan J. Waltham;Michael Elliott;Shing Yip Lee;Catherine Lovelock

  • A global analysis of terrestrial plant litter dynamics in non-perennial waterways

    T. Datry;A. Foulquier;R. Corti;D. von Schiller

  • Application of management tools to integrate ecological principles with the design of marine infrastructure

    Katherine A. Dafforn;Mariana Mayer-Pinto;Rebecca L. Morris;Nathan J. Waltham

  • Simulating rewetting events in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: A global analysis of leached nutrients and organic matter

    Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Oleksandra Shumilova;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Dominik Zak;Thibault Datry;Daniel von Schiller

  • Environmental Flow Requirements of Estuaries: Providing Resilience to Current and Future Climate and Direct Anthropogenic Changes

    Daniel Chilton;David P. Hamilton;Ivan Nagelkerken;Perran Cook

  • Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality

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  • Expanding coastal urban and industrial seascape in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: Critical need for coordinated planning and policy

    Nathan J Waltham;Marcus Sheaves

  • Global extent and distribution of artificial, residential waterways in estuaries

    Nathan Waltham;Rod Martin Connolly

  • Human Actions Alter Tidal Marsh Seascapes and the Provision of Ecosystem Services

    Ben L. Gilby;Michael P. Weinstein;Ronald Baker;Just Cebrian

  • Sediment respiration pulses in intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams

    D. von Schiller;D. von Schiller;T. Datry;R. Corti;A. Foulquier

  • Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts

    Adam D. Canning;Diane Jarvis;Robert Costanza;Syezlin Hasan

  • Climate Change Implications for Tidal Marshes and Food Web Linkages to Estuarine and Coastal Nekton

    Denise D. Colombano;Steven Y. Litvin;Shelby L. Ziegler;Scott B. Alford

  • Benthic metabolism and nitrogen dynamics in a sub-tropical coastal lagoon: Microphytobenthos stimulate nitrification and nitrate reduction through photosynthetic oxygen evolution

    Ryan Jay Keith Dunn;David Thomas Welsh;Mark Jordan;Nathan J. Waltham

  • Benthic metabolism and nitrogen dynamics in an urbanised tidal creek: Domination of DNRA over denitrification as a nitrate reduction pathway

    Ryan Jay Keith Dunn;David Robertson;Peter Teasdale;Nathan J. Waltham

  • Lost floodplain wetland environments and efforts to restore connectivity, habitat, and water quality settings on the Great Barrier Reef

    Nathan J. Waltham;Damien Burrows;Carla Wegscheidl;Christina Buelow

  • Blue Restoration – Building Confidence and Overcoming Barriers

    Phoebe J. Stewart-Sinclair;Jemma Purandare;Elisa Bayraktarov;Nathan J. Waltham

  • Tidal Marsh Restoration Optimism in a Changing Climate and Urbanizing Seascape

    Nathan J. Waltham;Caitlin Alcott;Myriam A. Barbeau;Just Cebrian

  • Fisheries rely on threatened salt marshes.

    Ronald Baker;Matthew D. Taylor;Kenneth W. Able;Michael W. Beck

  • Managing threats and restoring wetlands within catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Maria Fernanda Adame;Angela H. Arthington;Nathan Waltham;Syezlin Hasan

  • Bund removal to re-establish tidal flow, remove aquatic weeds and restore coastal wetland services-North Queensland, Australia.

    Brett N. Abbott;Jim Wallace;Jim Wallace;David M. Nicholas;Fazlul Karim

  • Spatial analysis of carbon isotopes reveals seagrass contribution to fishery food web

    Rod M. Connolly;Nathan J. Waltham

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus Sheaves
Marcus Sheaves James Cook University
Rod M. Connolly
Rod M. Connolly Griffith University
Dominik Zak
Dominik Zak Aarhus University
Mark O. Gessner
Mark O. Gessner Technical University of Berlin
Klement Tockner
Klement Tockner Goethe University Frankfurt
Peter R. Teasdale
Peter R. Teasdale University of South Australia
Just Cebrian
Just Cebrian Mississippi State University
Catherine E. Lovelock
Catherine E. Lovelock University of Queensland
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Christiane Zarfl
Christiane Zarfl University of Tübingen

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