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Recent Publications
Desmond, J., J. B. Zedler, and G. D. Williams.
2000. Fish use of tidal creek habitats in two southern
California
salt marshes. Ecological Engineering.
14:233-252
James, M. L., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Dynamics of wetland
and upland subshrubs at the salt marsh-coastal sage scrub ecotone.
American
Midland
Naturalist
82:81-99.
Zedler, J. B. 2000. Restoration of biodiversity to coastal
and inland wetlands. Pp. 311-330 in B. Gopal, editor. Biodiversity in
Wetlands: Assessment,
Function and Conservation. Backhuys Publishers,
Leiden,
The Netherlands.
Zedler, J. B., and J. C. Callaway. 2000.
Evaluating the progress of engineered tidal wetlands. Ecological
Engineering 15:211-225.
Desmond, J. S., G. D. Williams, and. B. Zedler
2000. Improving the design of fish habitat mitigation projects in
southern
California.
Pages 245-251.
In J. E. Keeley, M. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham, eds. 2nd
Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in California. US
Geological
Survey Open File Report 00-62. Sacramento, California.
Streever, W., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. To plant or not to
plant? BioScience 50:188-189.
Zedler, J. B. 2000. Progress in wetland restoration
ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 15:402-407 (invited
review article).
Trnka, S., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Site conditions, not
parental phenotype, determine the height of Spartina foliosa.
Estuaries 23:572-582..
Lindig-Cisneros, R. and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Restoring urban
habitats: A comparative approach. Ecological Restoration
18:184-192.
West, J. M., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Marsh-creek
connectivity: Fish use of a tidal salt marsh in southern
California.
Estuaries 23: 699-710.
Noe, G. B., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Differential
effects of four abiotic factors on the germination of salt marsh
annuals. American Journal of Botany
87:1679-1692.
Boyer, K. E., J. C. Callaway, and J. B. Zedler. 2000.
Evaluating the progress of restored cordgrass (Spartina foliosa)
marshes: Belowground biomass
and tissue N. Estuaries 23:711-721.
Fong, P., and J. B. Zedler. 2000. Sources,
sinks, and fluxes of nutrients (N+P) in a small highly modified urban
estuary in southern
California.
Urban
Ecosystems 4:125-144.
Zedler, J.
B., editor. 2001. Handbook for Restoring Tidal Wetlands.
Marine Science Series, CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton. Florida.
Zedler, J. B., R. Lindig-Cisneros, C. Bonilla-Warford, and
I. Woo. 2001.
Restoration of biodiversity: An overview. Pp. 203-212 in S. Levin,
editor.
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 5.. Academic Press, San Diego.
Noe, G. B., and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Spatio-temporal
variation of salt marsh seedling establishment in relation to the
abiotic and biotic environment.
Journal of Vegetation Science 12:61-74.
Noe, G. B., and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Variable precipitation
limits the germination of upper intertidal marsh plants in southern
California.
Estuaries 24:30-40.
Madon, S. P., G. D.
Williams, J. M. West, and J. B. Zedler. 2001. The importance of marsh
access to growth of the
California killifish, Fundulus parvipinnis,
evaluated through bioenergetics modeling. Ecological Modelling
136: 149-165.
Williams, G. D., J. M.
West, and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Shifts in fish and invertebrate
assemblages of two southern
California
estuaries during the 1997-98
El Niño. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
100(3): 212-237.
Goodwin, P., A. J.
Mehta, and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Tidal wetland restoration: An
introduction. Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 27:1-6.
Zedler, J. B., and J. C. Callaway. 2001. Tidal
wetland functioning. In P. Goodwin and A. J. Mehta, eds. Tidal
Wetlands; Physical and Ecological processes.
Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 27:38-64.
Zedler, J. B., and R. Lindig-Cisneros. 2001.
Functional equivalency of restored and natural salt marshes. Pp. 565-582
in M. Weinstein and D. Kreeger, eds.
Concepts and Controversies in Tidal Marsh Ecology.
Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Zedler, J. B., and L. Shabman. 2001.
Compensatory mitigation needs improvement, panel says. National
Wetlands Newsletter 23(4):1, 12-14.
[Also reprinted in Ecological Restoration, November 2001.]
McCarty, J. P., and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Ecological
restoration and its potential to reduce the negative impacts of global
change. Pp. 532-539
in H. A.
Mooney and J. Canadell, eds. Encyclopedia of Global Environmental
Change, Vol. 2: The Earth System: Biological and Ecological Dimensions
of
Global Environmental Change. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., London.
Lindig-Cisneros, R. A., and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Effect of
light on Phalaris arundinacea L. germination. Plant Ecology
155:75-78.
Turner, R. E., A. Redmond, and J. B. Zedler. 2001. Count it
by acre or function—Mitigation adds up to net loss of wetlands.
National Wetlands
Newsletter 23(6):5-6,14-16.
Zedler, J. B., J. C. Callaway, and G. Sullivan. 2001.
Declining biodiversity: Why species matter and how their functions might
be restored. BioScience
51:1005-1017.
Committee on Wetland Mitigation; National
Research Council. 2001. Compensating for Wetland Loss under the
Clean Water Act. National Academy
Press, Washington, D.C. (Coauthor of this book and chair of the panel
that produced it).
Bonilla-Warford, C., and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Potential for
using native plant species in stormwater wetlands. Environmental
Management 29:385-393.
Keer, G., and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Salt marsh canopy architecture
differs with the number and composition of species. Ecological
Applications 12:456-473.
Maurer, D. A., and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Differential
invasion of a wetland grass explained by tests of nutrients and light
availability on establishment and
vegetative growth. Oecologia 131:279-288.
Lindig-Cisneros, R. and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Phalaris
arundinacea L. seedling establishment: Effects of canopy complexity
in fen, mesocosm and restoration
experiments. Canadian Journal of Botany 80:617-624.
Madon, S. P., J. West, and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Responses of
fish to topographic heterogeneity in an experimental marsh
(California). Ecological
Restoration 20:56-58.
Zedler, J. B., and Paul Adam. 2002. Saltmarshes Pp. 238-266
in M. Perrow and A. Davy, ed. Handbook of Restoration Ecology,
Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Cambridge, UK.
Lindig-Cisneros, R. and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Relationships
between canopy complexity and germination microsites for Phalaris
arundinacea L.
Oecologia 133:159-167.
Desmond, J., D. Deutschman, and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Spatial
and temporal variation in estuarine fish and invertebrate assemblages:
Analysis of an
11-year dataset. Estuaries 25:552-569.
Woo, I., and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Can nutrients alone shift
a sedge meadow towards the invasive Typha x glauca? Wetlands
22:509-521.
Werner, K. J. and
J. B. Zedler. 2002. How sedge meadow soils, microtopography, and
vegetation respond to sedimentation. Wetlands 22:451-466.
Lindig-Cisneros, R. and J. B. Zedler. 2002. Halophyte
recruitment in a salt marsh restoration site. Estuaries 25:
1174-1183.
Zedler, J. B., and J. C. Callaway. 2003. Adaptive
restoration: A strategic approach for integrating research into
restoration projects. Pp. 167-174
in
D. J. Rapport, W. L. Lasley, D. E. Rolston, N. O. Nielsen, C. O.
Qualset, and A. B. Damania, eds. Managing for Healthy Ecosystems.
Lewis Publishers,
Boca Raton, Florida.
Zedler, J. B. 2003. Wetlands at your service: Reducing
impacts of agriculture at the watershed scale. Frontiers in Ecology
and Environment 1:65-72.
Ward, K. M., J. C. Callaway, and J. B. Zedler. 2003.
Episodic colonization of an intertidal mudflat by a native cordgrass
(Spartina foliosa) at
Tijuana Estuary. Estuaries 26:116-130.
Lindig-Cisneros, R., J. Desmond, K. Boyer, and J. B. Zedler.
2003. Wetland restoration thresholds: Can a degradation transition be
reversed
with increased effort? Ecological Applications 13:193-205.
Miller, R. C., and J. B. Zedler. 2003. Responses of native
and invasive wetland plants to hydroperiod and water depth. Plant
Ecology 167:57-69.
Zedler, J. B., H. N. Morzaria-Luna, and K. Ward. 2003. The
challenge of restoring vegetation on tidal, hypersaline substrates.
Plant and Soil 253:259-273.
Maurer, D. A., R. Lindig-Cisneros, K. J. Werner,
S. Kercher, R. Miller, and J. B. Zedler. 2003. The replacement of
wetland vegetation by
Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass). Ecological Restoration
21:116-119.
West, J., Williams, G., Madon, S. P., and Zedler, J. B. 2003.
Integrating spatial and temporal variability into the analysis of
fish food web linkages
in Tijuana Estuary. Environmental Biology of Fishes 67:297-309.
Meyer, J. L., L. A. Kaplan, D. Newbold, D. L. Strayer, C. J.
Woltemade, J. B. Zedler, R. Beilfuss, Q. Carpenter, R. Semlitsch, M. C.
Watzin, and P. H.
Zedler. 2003. Where rivers are born: The scientific imperative for
defending small streams and wetlands. White paper. The Sierra Club,
Washington, D. C.
Callaway, J. C., G.
Sullivan, and J. B. Zedler. 2003. Species-rich plantings increase
biomass and nitrogen accumulation in a wetland restoration experiment.
Ecological Applications 13:1626-1639.
Kercher, S. M., C. B.
Frieswyk, and J. B. Zedler. 2003. Effects of sampling teams and
estimation methods on the assessment of plant cover. Journal
of Vegetation Science 14:899-906.
Kercher, S. M., and J.
B. Zedler. 2004. Multiple disturbances accelerate invasion of reed
canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) in a mesocosm study.
Oecologia 138:455-464.
Zedler, J. B. 2004.
Compensatory mitigation for damages to wetlands: Can net losses be
reduced? Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts,
Letters and Sciences 90:103-117.
Callaway, J. C. and J. B. Zedler. 2004. Restoration of
urban salt marshes: Lessons from southern California. Urban
Ecosystems 7:107-124.
Morzaria-Luna, H., J. C. Callaway, G. Sullivan and J. B.
Zedler. 2004. Relationship between topographic heterogeneity and
vegetation patterns in
a Californian salt-marsh. Journal of Vegetation Science.15:523-530.
Kercher, S. M., Q.
Carpenter, and J. B. Zedler. 2004. Interrelationships of hydrologic
disturbances, reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.), and
native plants in Wisconsin wet meadows. Natural Areas Journal
24:316-325.
Zedler, J. B., and S. Kercher. 2004.
Causes and consequences of invasive plants in
wetlands: Opportunities, opportunists, and outcomes Critical
Reviews in Plant Sciences 23:431-452.
Kercher, S. M., and J. B. Zedler. 2004. Flood
tolerance in wetland angiosperms: a comparison of invasive and
noninvasive species. Aquatic Botany
80:89-102.
Zedler, J. B. 2004. Compensating for wetland losses in the
United States. In M. M. Rehfisch, C. F. Feare, N. V. Jones, and C.
Spray, eds. Climate
Change and Coastal Birds. Ibis 146 (Suppl. 1):
S92-S100.
Zedler, J. B.
2005. Restoring wetland plant diversity: A comparison of existing and
adaptive approaches. Wetlands Ecology and Management 13:5-14.
Fellows, M. and J. B. Zedler. 2005.
Effects of the non-native grass, Parapholis incurva (Poaceae),
on the rare and endangered hemiparasite,
Cordylanthus maritimus subsp. maritimus (Scrophulariaceae).
Madroño 52:91-98.
Zedler, J. B. 2005. Restoration ecology:
Principles from field tests of theory. San Francisco Estuary and
Watershed Science. On line at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/jmie/sfews/vol3/iss2/art4
Zedler, J. B. 2005. How compatible are biodiversity and
ecosystem-service restoration goals? National Wetlands Newsletter
27(6):1,11-13,19.
Herr-Turoff, A., and J. B. Zedler. 2005. Does wet prairie
vegetation retain more nitrogen with or without Phalaris
invasion. Plant and Soil 277:19-34.
Lindig-Cisneros, R. y J. B. Zedler. La
restauración de humedales. 2005. Pp. 201-213 In: Sánchez, Ó., E.
Peters, R. Márquez-Huitzil, E. Vega, G. Portales, M.
Valdés y D. Azuara, eds. Temas Sobre Restauración ecológica.
Instituto Nacional de Ecología-Semarnat. U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Unidos para la
Conservación. México, D. F.
Wallace, K.J., J.C. Callaway, and J.B. Zedler. 2005.
Evolution of tidal creek networks in a high sedimentation environment: A
5-year experiment at
Tijuana Estuary, California. Estuaries 28:795-811.
Zedler, J. B., and S. Kercher. 2005. Wetland resources:
Status, ecosystem services, degradation, and restorability. Annual
Review of Environment and
Resources 30:39-74. Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA.
O’Brien, E., and J. B. Zedler. 2006.
Accelerating the restoration of vegetation in a southern California salt
marsh. Wetlands Ecology and Management
14:269-286.
Larkin, D. J., G. Vivian-Smith, and J. B. Zedler. 2006.
Topographic heterogeneity theory and ecological restoration. Pp.
144-164 In: Falk, D., M. Palmer, and
J. B. Zedler, eds. Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island
Press, Washington, D.C.
Falk, D., M. Palmer, and J. B. Zedler, eds. 2006.
Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island Press. Washington, D.C.
Palmer, M. A., D. A. Falk, and J. B. Zedler. 2006.
Ecological theory and restoration ecology. Pps 1-10 In: Falk, D., M.
Palmer, and J. B. Zedler, eds.
Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island Press, Washington D.C.
Falk, D. A., M. A. Palmer, and J. B. Zedler. 2006.
Integrating restoration ecology and ecological theory: A synthesis. Pp.
341-345 In: Falk, D., M. Palmer, and
J. B. Zedler, eds. Foundations of Restoration Ecology. Island
Press. Washington D.C.
Peach, M. A. and J. B. Zedler. 2006. How tussocks structure
sedge meadow vegetation. Wetlands 26: 322-335.
Boers, A., C.
Frieswyk, J. Verhoeven and J. Zedler. 2006. Chapter 10: Contrasting
approaches to the restoration of diverse vegetation in herbaceous
wetlands. Pp. 225-246 in R. Bobbink,
B.
Beltman, J J.T.A. Verhoeven, and D.F. Whigham, eds.
Wetlands as a
natural resource,
Vol. 2. Wetlands:
functioning, biodiversity conservation and restoration. Springer
Verlag.
Zedler, J. 2006. Wetland restoration. Pp. 348-406
in D. P. Batzer and R. R. Sharitz, eds. Ecology of Freshwater and
estuarine wetlands. Elsevier,
Inc., San Diego.
Frieswyk, C. B., and J. B. Zedler. 2006. Do Seed Banks
Confer Resilience to Coastal Wetlands Invaded by Typha x
glauca? Canadian Journal of
Botany 84:1882-1893.
Callaway, J. C., K. W. Wallace and J. B. Zedler. 2006. Reply
to comment on our paper Evolution of tidal creek networks in a high
sedimentation environment:
a 5-year experiment at Tijuana Estuary, California. Estuaries and
Coasts 29:1268-1269.
Boers, A., R. Veltman, and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Typha x
glauca dominance and extended hydroperiod constrain restoration of
wetland diversity. Ecological
Engineering 29:232-244.
Morzaria-Luna, H., and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Does seed
availability limit plant establishment during salt marsh restoration?
Estuaries 30:12-25.
Frieswyk, C. B., and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Vegetation
change in Great Lakes coastal wetlands: Deviation from the historical
cycle. Journal of Great Lakes
Research 33:366-380.
Kercher, S. M., A. Herr-Turoff, and J
B. Zedler. 2007. Understanding invasion as a process: The case of
Phalaris arundinacea in wet prairies.
Biological Invasions 9:657-665.
Zedler, J. B. 2007. Success: An unclear, subjective
descriptor of restoration outcomes. Ecological Restoration
25:162-168.
Wilcox, J. C., M. T.
Healy and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Restoring native vegetation to an urban
wet meadow dominated by reed canarygrass (Phalaris
arundinacea L.) in Wisconsin, USA. Natural Areas Journal
27:354-365.
Sullivan, G., J. Callaway and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Plant
assemblage composition explains and predicts how biodiversity affects
salt marsh functioning.
Ecological Monographs 77:569-590.
Herr-Turoff, A. and J. B. Zedler. 2007. Does morphological
plasticity of the Phalaris arundinacea canopy increase
invasiveness? Plant Ecology
193:265-277.
Zedler, J. B. and J. M. West. 2008. Declining diversity in
natural and restored salt marshes: A 30-year study of Tijuana Estuary.
Restoration Ecology
16:249-262.
Frieswyk, C. B., C. Johnston, and J. B. Zedler. 2008.
Quantifying and qualifying dominance in vegetation. Journal of Great
Lakes Research 33
(Special Issue 3):125-135.
Adam, P., M. D. Bertness, A. J. Davy, and J. B. Zedler.
2008. Saltmarsh. Pp. 157-171
in N. Polunin, ed. Aquatic ecosystems. Cambridge University
Press.
Johnston, C.A., B. Bedford, M. Bourdaghs, T. Brown, C. B.
Frieswyk, M. Tulbure, L. Vaccaro, and J. B. Zedler. 2008. Plant species
indicators of physical
environment in Great Lakes coastal wetlands. Journal of Great Lakes
Research 33 (Special Issue 3):106-124.
Johnston, C.A., D. Ghioca, M. Tulbure, SB. L. Bedford, M.
Bourdaghs, C. B. Frieswyk, L. Vacaro, and J. B. Zedler. 2008.
Partitioning vegetation response to
anthropogenic stress to develop multi-taxa indicators of wetland
condition. Ecological Applications 18:983-1001.
Varty, A., and J. B. Zedler. 2008. How waterlogged
microsites help an annual plant persist among salt marsh perennials.
Estuaries and Coasts 31:300-312.
Stiles, C. A., B. Bemis, and J. B. Zedler. 2008. Evaluating
edaphic conditions favoring reed canary grass invasion in a restored
native prairie. Ecological
Restoration 26:61-70.
Zedler, J. B., and K. Potter. 2008. Southern Wisconsin’s
Herbaceous Wetlands: Their Recent History and Precarious Future. Pages
193-210 in
The
vanishing present. D. Waller and T. Rooney, eds. University of
Chicago Press.
Larkin, D. J., S. P. Madon, J. M. West and J. B. Zedler.
2008. Topographic heterogeneity influences fish use of an
experimentally-restored tidal marsh.
Ecological Applications 18:483-496.
Zedler, J. B., C. L.
Bonin, D. J. Larkin, and A. Varty. 2008. Salt marshes. Pages 3132-3141
in Sven Erik Jorgensen & Brian D. Fath, 2008.
Encyclopedia of Ecology, 1st Edition, Elsevier B.V., Oxford.
Boers, A. M., and J. B. Zedler. 2008. Stabilized water
levels and Typha invasiveness. Wetlands 28: 676-685.
Wagner, K., S. K. Gallagher, M. Hayes, B. A. Lawrence, and J.
B. Zedler. 2008. Wetland restoration in the new millennium: Do research
efforts
match opportunities? Restoration Ecology 16: 367-372.
Hall, S. J., R. A. Lindig-Cisneros and J. B. Zedler. 2008.
Does harvesting sustain plant diversity in Central Mexican wetlands?
Wetlands 28:776-792.
Peterson, C. H., K. W. Able, C. F. DeJong, M. F. Piehler, C.
A. Simenstad, and J. B. Zedler. In press, 2008. Practical proxies for
tidal marsh
ecosystem services: Application to injury and restoration. Advances
In Marine Biology.
Callaway, J. C., and J. B. Zedler. In
press. Salt marsh conservation along the
leading edge of the continent. In B. Silliman, M. Bertness, and D.
Strong.
Anthropogenic Modification of North American Salt Marshes.
University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Zedler, J. B. In
press. Feedbacks that might sustain natural, invaded and restored states
in herbaceous wetlands. Chapter 16 in R. Hobbs and K. N.
Suding, eds., New models for ecosystem dynamics and restoration,
Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Bonin, C. L., and J. B. Zedler. In press. Plant traits and plasticity
help explain abundance ranks in a California salt marsh. Estuaries
and Coasts.
Hall, S. J., and J. B.
Zedler. In press. Constraints on sedge meadow self-restoration in
urban wetlands. Restoration Ecology.
