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Overview

Scott D. Bridgham is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics Bridgham has explored are diverse within environmental research and include:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Bridgham has published extensively in several scientific venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Plant and Soil
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Some of Bridgham's recent published papers showcase research on peatland carbon dynamics, soil metabolomics, and ecosystem responses to environmental change. Notable recent publications include:

  • Massive peatland carbon banks vulnerable to rising temperatures, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Soil metabolome response to whole-ecosystem warming at the Spruce and Peatland Responses under Changing Environments experiment, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Practical Guide to Measuring Wetland Carbon Pools and Fluxes, 2023, Wetlands
  • An Integrative Model for Soil Biogeochemistry and Methane Processes: I. Model Structure and Sensitivity Analysis, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • An Integrative Model for Soil Biogeochemistry and Methane Processes. II: Warming and Elevated CO2 Effects on Peatland CH4 Emissions, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Frequent collaborators in Bridgham's research include Jason K. Keller, Paul B. Reed, Paul J. Hanson, Lucas C. R. Silva, and Anya M. Hopple.

Best Publications

  • The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems.

    Christopher D. G. Harley;A. Randall Hughes;Kristin M. Hultgren;Benjamin G. Miner

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Methane emissions from wetlands: biogeochemical, microbial, and modeling perspectives from local to global scales

    Scott D. Bridgham;Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz;Jason K. Keller;Qianlai Zhuang

  • THE CARBON BALANCE OF NORTH AMERICAN WETLANDS

    Scott D. Bridgham;J. Patrick Megonigal;Jason K. Keller;Norman B. Bliss

  • Natural climate solutions for the United States.

    Joseph E. Fargione;Steven Bassett;Timothy Boucher;Scott D. Bridgham

  • CARBON, NITROGEN, AND PHOSPHORUS MINERALIZATION IN NORTHERN WETLANDS

    Scott D. Bridgham;Karen Updegraff;John J Pastor;John J Pastor

  • Environmental and substrate controls over carbon and nitrogen mineralization in northern wetlands

    Karen Updegraff;John Pastor;Scott D. Bridgham;Carol A. Johnston

  • Below-ground process responses to elevated CO2 and temperature: a discussion of observations, measurement methods, and models

    Elise Pendall;Scott Bridgham;Paul J. Hanson;Bruce Hungate

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • RESPONSE OF BOG AND FEN PLANT COMMUNITIES TO WARMING AND WATER-TABLE MANIPULATIONS

    Jake F. Weltzin;John J Pastor;John J Pastor;Calvin Harth;Scott D. Bridgham

  • Mechanisms controlling soil respiration (CO2 and CH4) in southern peatlands

    Scott D. Bridgham;Curtis J. Richardson

  • Multiple limiting gradients in peatlands: A call for a new paradigm

    Scott D. Bridgham;John J Pastor;Jan A. Janssens;Carmen Chapin

  • Potential effects of warming and drying on peatland plant community composition

    Jake F. Weltzin;Scott D. Bridgham;John Pastor;John Pastor;Jiquan Chen

  • RESPONSE OF CO2 AND CH4 EMISSIONS FROM PEATLANDS TO WARMING AND WATER TABLE MANIPULATION

    Karen Updegraff;Scott D. Bridgham;John Pastor;Peter Weishampel

  • Global warming and the export of dissolved organic carbon from boreal peatlands

    John J Pastor;Jeremy Solin;Scott D. Bridgham;Karen Updegraff

  • Stability of peatland carbon to rising temperatures

    Rachel Wilson;Anya Hopple;Malak Tfaily;Stephen Sebestyen

  • pH controls over anaerobic carbon mineralization, the efficiency of methane production, and methanogenic pathways in peatlands across an ombrotrophic–minerotrophic gradient

    Rongzhong Ye;Qusheng Jin;Brendan Bohannan;Jason K. Keller

  • Potential feedbacks of Northern wetlands on climate change - An outline of an approach to predict climate-change impact

    Scott D. Bridgham;Carol A. Johnston;John Pastor;Karen Updegraff

  • Pathways of Anaerobic Carbon Cycling Across an Ombrotrophic–Minerotrophic Peatland Gradient

    Jason K. Keller;Scott D. Bridgham

  • Regional comparisons of watershed determinants of dissolved organic carbon in temperate lakes from the Upper Great Lakes region and selected regions globally

    Marguerite A. Xenopoulos;David M. Lodge;Jason Frentress;Timothy A. Kreps

  • Phosphorus Loss From Soil to Water

    Scott Bridgham

Frequent Co-Authors

John Pastor
John Pastor University of Minnesota, Duluth
Brendan J. M. Bohannan
Brendan J. M. Bohannan University of Oregon
Carol A. Johnston
Carol A. Johnston South Dakota State University
Malak M. Tfaily
Malak M. Tfaily University of Arizona
Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Curtis J. Richardson
Curtis J. Richardson Duke University
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Gary A. Lamberti
Gary A. Lamberti University of Notre Dame
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jake F. Weltzin
Jake F. Weltzin United States Geological Survey

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