Paul Keddy

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Paul A. Keddy (born May 29, 1953 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian ecologist. He has studied plant population ecology and community ecology in wetlands and many other habitats in eastern Canada and Louisiana, U.S.A., where he now is a professor at the Southeastern Louisiana University.

He began his formal training in biology in 1969 at York University in Toronto and finished his PhD at Dalhousie University with Evelyn C. Pielou. He has been professor of biology at the University of Guelph (1978-1982), University of Ottawa (1982-1999) and has held the Edward G. Schlieder Endowed Chair for Environmental Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University (1999 to present). Paul Keddy is a highly cited researcher[1]. He was among the 2007 recipients of the National Wetland Stewardship Award by the Environmental Law Institute.

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[edit] Books

Keddy’s first book, Competition[2], won both the George Lawson Medal of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Gleason Prize of the New York Botanical Gardens. Recently, he has publised a text book, Plants and Vegetation[3], and a book on wetlands, Wetland Ecology[4]. In addition, he has coedited two books, Ecological Assembly Rules[5] and The World's Largest Wetlands[6].

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Keddy has done important reserach of the population ecology of dune plants and on how plant communities are assembled from their constituent species, mainly in wetlands.

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  1. ^ ISI Highly cited
  2. ^ Keddy, P.A. (1989) Competition. (Population and Community Biology Series). Chapman & Hall, 202 p. 2nd edn 2001, 552 p. ISBN 978-1402002298
  3. ^ Keddy, P.A. (2007) Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences. Cambridge University Press, 680 p. ISBN 9780521864800 DOI
  4. ^ Keddy, P.A. (2000) Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. Cambridge University Press, 614 p. ISBN 0521783674 Google books
  5. ^ Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (1999) Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, advances, retreats. Cambridge University Press, 430 p. ISBN 9780521652353 DOI
  6. ^ Fraser, L.H. & Keddy, P.A. (2005) The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation. Cambridge University Press, 498 p. ISBN 9780521834049 DOI

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