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756

Overview

Robert R. Twilley is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to ecology, earth-surface processes, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and oceanography.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics linked to coastal and marine environments, including coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, flood risk assessment and management, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Frequent co-authors include André Rovai, Alexandra Christensen, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Daniel Jensen, and John W. Day. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary approaches within their focused research areas.

Twilley's research has been published in multiple venues, with notable frequency in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics, Estuaries and Coasts, The Science of The Total Environment, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Twilley include:

  • Macroecological patterns of forest structure and allometric scaling in mangrove forests (2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta (2023, Nature Sustainability)
  • Marine And Estuarine Ecosystem And Habitat Classification (2024, AquaDocs (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization))
  • Brazilian Mangroves: Blue Carbon Hotspots of National and Global Relevance to Natural Climate Solutions (2022, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)
  • Ecosystem-level carbon stocks and sequestration rates in mangroves in the Cananéia-Iguape lagoon estuarine system, southeastern Brazil (2020, Forest Ecology and Management)

Best Publications

  • Mangrove Production and Carbon sinks: A revision of global budget estimates

    Steven Bouillon;Alberto V. Borges;Edward Castaneda-Moya;Karen Diele

  • Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

    John W. Day;Donald F. Boesch;Ellis J. Clairain;G. Paul Kemp

  • Different kinds of mangrove forests provide different goods and services

    Katherine C. Ewel;Robert R. Twilley;Jin Eong Ong

  • Carbon sinks in mangroves and their implications to carbon budget of tropical coastal ecosystems

    R. R. Twilley;R. H. Chen;T. Hargis

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Consequences of Climate Change on the Ecogeomorphology of Coastal Wetlands

    John W. Day;Robert R. Christian;Donald M. Boesch;Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia

  • Natural Processes in Delta Restoration: Application to the Mississippi Delta

    Chris Paola;Robert R. Twilley;Douglas A. Edmonds;Douglas A. Edmonds;Wonsuck Kim

  • Mapping Height and Biomass of Mangrove Forests in Everglades National Park with SRTM Elevation Data

    Marc Simard;Keqi Zhang;Victor H. Rivera-Monroy;Michael S. Ross

  • The impact of accelerating land-use change on the N-Cycle of tropical aquatic ecosystems: Current conditions and projected changes

    J. A. Downing;M. McClain;R. Twilley;J. M. Melack

  • Global controls on carbon storage in mangrove soils

    André S. Rovai;André S. Rovai;Robert R. Twilley;Edward Castañeda-Moya;Edward Castañeda-Moya;Pablo Riul

  • Nutrient enrichment of estuarine submersed vascular plant communities. 1. Algal growth and effects on production of plants and associated communities.

    RR Twilley;WM Kemp;KW Staver;JC Stevenson

  • The exchange of organic carbon in basin mangrove forests in a southwest Florida estuary

    Robert R. Twilley

  • Isotopic and Elemental Variations of Carbon and Nitrogen in a Mangrove Estuary

    L.A. Cifuentes;R.B. Coffin;L. Solorzano;W. Cardenas

  • Litter dynamics in riverine mangrove forests in the Guayas River estuary, Ecuador

    Robert R. Twilley;Mireya Pozo;Victor H. Garcia;Victor H. Rivera-Monroy

  • Patterns of mangrove forest structure and soil nutrient dynamics along the Shark River estuary, Florida

    Ronghua Chen;Robert R. Twilley

  • A gap dynamic model of mangrove forest development along gradients of soil salinity and nutrient resources

    Ronghua Chen;Robert R. Twilley

  • Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries

    Thomas S. Bianchi;Jonathan Pennock;Robert R. Twilley

  • Advances and limitations of individual-based models to analyze and predict dynamics of mangrove forests: a review

    Uta Berger;Victor H. Rivera-Monroy;Thomas W. Doyle;Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

  • A simulation model of organic matter and nutrient accumulation in mangrove wetland soils

    Ronghua Chen;Robert R. Twilley

  • A 7 YEAR RECORD OF ABOVE-GROUND NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN A SOUTHEASTERN MEXICAN MANGROVE FOREST

    J.W. Day;J.W. Day;Carlos Coronado-Molina;F.R. Vera-Herrera;R. Twilley

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Victor H. Rivera-Monroy Louisiana State University
John W. Day
John W. Day Louisiana State University
Marc Simard
Marc Simard California Institute of Technology
Ken W. Krauss
Ken W. Krauss United States Geological Survey
Robert R. Lane
Robert R. Lane Louisiana State University
Dubravko Justic
Dubravko Justic Louisiana State University
James H. Cowan
James H. Cowan Louisiana State University
Scott C. Hagen
Scott C. Hagen Louisiana State University
Ronald D. DeLaune
Ronald D. DeLaune Louisiana State University
Chris Paola
Chris Paola University of Minnesota

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