Paul Keddy

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 [ [http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?id=1013&cb=492 ISI Highly cited] ] . He was among the 2007 recipients of the National Wetland Stewardship Award by the Environmental Law Institute.

Books

Keddy’s first book, Competition [Keddy, P.A. (1989) Competition. (Population and Community Biology Series). Chapman & Hall, 202 p. 2nd edn 2001, 552 p. ISBN 978-1402002298] , won both the George Lawson Medal of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Gleason Prize of the New York Botanical Gardens. Recently, he has published a text book, Plants and Vegetation [Keddy, P.A. (2007) Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences. Cambridge University Press, 680 p. ISBN 9780521864800 [http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/0521864801 DOI] ] , and a book on wetlands, Wetland Ecology [Keddy, P.A. (2000) Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. Cambridge University Press, 614 p. ISBN 0521783674 [http://books.google.se/books?id=0QwMcXzHeMoC&dq Google books] ] . In addition, he has coedited two books, Ecological Assembly Rules [Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (1999) Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, advances, retreats. Cambridge University Press, 430 p. ISBN 9780521652353 [http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/0521652359 DOI] ] and The World's Largest Wetlands [Fraser, L.H. & Keddy, P.A. (2005) The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation. Cambridge University Press, 498 p. ISBN 9780521834049 [http://dx.doi.org/10.2277/052183404X DOI] ] .

Research

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

References

External links

* [http://www.selu.edu/Academics/Faculty/pkeddy Paul Keddy's website]
* [http://drpaulkeddynews.blogspot.com/ Paul Keddy's blog]