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24141
World Ranking
915
National Ranking
340

Overview

Paul A. Keddy was affiliated with Southeastern Louisiana University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on environmental science, with significant contributions also in agricultural and biological sciences as well as earth and planetary sciences.

Their main areas of study encompassed ecology, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, plant science, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. These subfields reflected a broad engagement with ecological and environmental systems.

The research topics covered by Paul A. Keddy included coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, hydrology and sediment transport processes, peatlands and wetlands ecology, wildlife ecology and conservation, plant responses to water stress, and ecology and biodiversity studies.

The scientist authored several publications, including recent papers such as:

  • The Roles of Competition and Facilitation in Producing Zonation Along an Experimental Flooding Gradient: a Tale of Two Tails with Ten Freshwater Marsh Plants, 2022, Wetlands
  • A Framework for Community Ecology, 2021, Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • Index, 2023, Cambridge University Press eBooks

Paul A. Keddy also published books under reputable publishers. Titles included "Wetland Ecology" (2023), published by Cambridge University Press, and "Causal Factors for Wetland Management and Restoration: A Concise Guide" (2023), published by Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Frequent publication venues where the scientist's work appeared included Cambridge University Press eBooks and Wetlands. This indicates a focus on both book publications and journal articles within their research area.

Collaborations were a component of their work, with frequent co-authors including Daniel Campbell and Daniel C. Laughlin.

Best Publications

  • Assembly and response rules: two goals for predictive community ecology

    Paul A. Keddy

  • Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation

    Paul A. Keddy

  • Assembly rules, null models, and trait dispersion : new questions from old patterns

    Evan Weiher;Paul A. Keddy

  • Ecological assembly rules : perspectives, advances, retreats

    Evan Weiher;Paul A. Keddy

  • A comparative approach to predicting competitive ability from plant traits

    Connie L. Gaudet;Paul A. Keddy

  • Community Assembly Rules, Morphological Dispersion, and the Coexistence of Plant Species

    Evan Weiher;G. D. Paul Clarke;Paul A. Keddy

  • Great Lakes Vegetation Dynamics: The Role of Fluctuating Water Levels and Buried Seeds

    P.A. Keddy;A.A. Reznicek

  • The assembly of experimental wetland plant communities

    Evan Weiher;Paul A. Keddy

  • Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants

    James F. Cahill;Steven W. Kembel;Eric G. Lamb;Paul A. Keddy

  • Species Competitive Ability and Position Along a Natural Stress/Disturbance Gradient

    Scott D. Wilson;Paul A. Keddy

  • Competitive hierarchies in herbaceous plant communities

    Paul A. Keddy;Bill Shipley

  • Wet and Wonderful: The World's Largest Wetlands are Conservation Priorities

    Paul A. Keddy;Lauchlan H. Fraser;Ayzik I. Solomeshch;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • A pragmatic approach to functional ecology

    P. A. Keddy

  • FERTILITY AND DISTURBANCE GRADIENTS: A SUMMARY MODEL FOR RIVERINE MARSH VEGETATION'

    R. T. Day;P. A. Keddy;J. McNeill;T. Carleton

  • THE ROLE OF SEED BANKS IN THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTARIO'S COASTAL PLAIN FLORA

    P. A. Keddy;A. A. Reznicek

  • A functional classification of wetland plants.

    Céline Boutin;Paul A. Keddy

  • RIVER HYDROLOGY AND RIPARIAN WETLANDS: A PREDICTIVE MODEL FOR ECOLOGICAL ASSEMBLY

    Maureen Toner;Paul Keddy

  • Shoreline Vegetation in Axe Lake, Ontario: Effects of Exposure on Zonation Patterns

    Paul A. Keddy;Paul A. Keddy

  • Measuring diffuse competition along an environmental gradient: results from a shoreline plant community

    Scott D. Wilson;Paul A. Keddy

  • Quantifying within-lake gradients of wave energy: Interrelationships of wave energy, substrate particle size and shoreline plants in axe lake, Ontario

    Paul A. Keddy

  • The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Paul A. Keddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Lauchlan H. Fraser
Lauchlan H. Fraser Thompson Rivers University
Bill Shipley
Bill Shipley Université de Sherbrooke
Scott D. Wilson
Scott D. Wilson University of Regina
Steven W. Kembel
Steven W. Kembel University of Quebec at Montreal
Beatrix E. Beisner
Beatrix E. Beisner University of Quebec at Montreal
Roy Turkington
Roy Turkington University of British Columbia
Han Olff
Han Olff University of Groningen
Stuart L. Pimm
Stuart L. Pimm Duke University
Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
James F. Cahill
James F. Cahill University of Alberta

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