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Robert R. Lane is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant body of work in the subfields of ecology, earth-surface processes, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

Their research topics cover a range of ecological and geological themes, including:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Coastal and marine dynamics
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Soil and water nutrient dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Robert R. Lane has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed venues, with frequent publications in the following journals and platforms:

  • Water
  • Ecological Modelling
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  • Global Change Biology

Recent representative publications include:

  • "A Review of 50 Years of Study of Hydrology, Wetland Dynamics, Aquatic Metabolism, Water Quality and Trophic Status, and Nutrient Biogeochemistry in the Barataria Basin, Mississippi Delta-System Functioning, Human Impacts and Restoration Approaches" (2021, Water)
  • "Applications and utility of the surface elevation table-marker horizon method for measuring wetland elevation and shallow soil subsidence-expansion" (2020, Geo-Marine Letters)
  • "Wetland carbon models: Applications for wetland carbon commercialization" (2022, Ecological Modelling)
  • "Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the conterminous United States" (2024, Global Change Biology)
  • "A blue carbon pilot project: Lessons learned" (2022, Carbon Management)

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors, with several collaborators contributing to multiple publications. Notable co-authors include John W. Day, G. Paul Kemp, Sarah K. Mack, William H. Conner, and Rachael G. Hunter.

Best Publications

  • Nitrate-nitrogen retention in wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin

    William J. Mitsch;John W. Day;Li Zhang;Robert R. Lane

  • Water Quality Analysis of a Freshwater Diversion at Caernarvon, Louisiana

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;Burnell Thibodeaux

  • Implications of global climatic change and energy cost and availability for the restoration of the Mississippi delta

    John W. Day;John Barras;Ellis Clairain;James Johnston

  • The Use of Wetlands in the Mississippi Delta for Wastewater Assimilation: A Review

    J. W. Day;Jae-Young Ko;John Rybczyk;D. Sabins

  • Approaches to defining deltaic sustainability in the 21st century

    John W. Day;Julius Agboola;Zhongyuan Chen;Christopher D’Elia

  • The effects of riverine discharge on temperature, salinity, suspended sediment and chlorophyll a in a Mississippi delta estuary measured using a flow-through system

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;Brian D. Marx;Enrique Reyes

  • Using Ecotechnology to address water quality and wetland habitat loss problems in the Mississippi basin: a hierarchical approach

    John W Day;Alejandro Yañéz Arancibia;William J Mitsch;Ana Laura Lara-Dominguez

  • Changes in stoichiometric Si, N and P ratios of Mississippi River water diverted through coastal wetlands to the Gulf of Mexico

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;Dubravko Justic;Enrique Reyes

  • The Impacts of Pulsed Reintroduction of River Water on a Mississippi Delta Coastal Basin

    J. W. Day;J. E. Cable;J. H. Cowan;R. DeLaune

  • WETLAND SURFACE ELEVATION, VERTICAL ACCRETION, AND SUBSIDENCE AT THREE LOUISIANA ESTUARIES RECEIVING DIVERTED MISSISSIPPI RIVER WATER

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;Jason N. Day

  • Mississippi river sediment diversions and coastal wetland sustainability: Synthesis of responses to freshwater, sediment, and nutrient inputs

    T. Elsey-Quirk;S.A. Graham;I.A. Mendelssohn;G. Snedden

  • Sustainability of Mediterranean Deltaic and Lagoon Wetlands with Sea-Level Rise: The Importance of River Input

    John Day;Carles Ibáñez;Francesco Scarton;Didier Pont

  • A comparative evaluation of money-based and energy-based cost-benefit analyses of tertiary municipal wastewater treatment using forested wetlands vs. sand filtration in Louisiana

    Jae-Young Ko;John W Day;Robert R Lane;Jason N Day

  • Potential nitrate removal from a river diversion into a Mississippi delta forested wetland

    Robert R Lane;Hassan S Mashriqui;G.Paul Kemp;John W Day

  • Seasonal and Spatial Water Quality Changes in the Outflow Plume of the Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, USA

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;Brian Marx;Enrique Reves

  • The 1994 experimental opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway to divert Mississippi River water into Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

    Robert R. Lane;John W. Day;G.Paul Kemp;Dennis K. Demcheck

  • Mississippi River diversions and phytoplankton dynamics in deltaic Gulf of Mexico estuaries: A review

    Sibel Bargu;Dubravko Justic;John R. White;Robert Lane

  • Drivers and impacts of water level fluctuations in the Mississippi River delta: Implications for delta restoration

    Matthew Hiatt;Gregg Snedden;John W. Day;Robert V. Rohli

  • Large infrequently operated river diversions for Mississippi delta restoration

    John W. Day;Robert R. Lane;Christopher F. D’Elia;Adrian R. H. Wiegman

  • Primary production, nutrient dynamics, and accretion of a coastal freshwater forested wetland assimilation system in Louisiana

    Christopher G. Brantley;Christopher G. Brantley;John W. Day;Robert R. Lane;Emily Hyfield

  • Fate of Soil Organic Carbon During Wetland Loss

    Robert R. Lane;Sarah K. Mack;John W. Day;Ronald D. DeLaune

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Ronald D. DeLaune
Ronald D. DeLaune Louisiana State University
Dubravko Justic
Dubravko Justic Louisiana State University
Robert R. Twilley
Robert R. Twilley Louisiana State University
John R. White
John R. White Louisiana State University
Jaye E. Cable
Jaye E. Cable University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
William J. Mitsch
William J. Mitsch Florida Gulf Coast University
Irving A. Mendelssohn
Irving A. Mendelssohn Louisiana State University
William H. Conner
William H. Conner Clemson University
Denise J. Reed
Denise J. Reed University of New Orleans

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