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Steven Pennings's Degrees
- PhD Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Masters Marine Biology University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven C. Pennings is an American biologist and biochemist currently the John and Rebecca Moores Professor at University of Houston.
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- Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization. (2005) (912)
- Forecasting the effects of accelerated sea‐level rise on tidal marsh ecosystem services (2009) (689)
- Salt Marsh Plant Zonation: The Relative Importance of Competition and Physical Factors (1992) (545)
- PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND INTERACTIONS AMONG PLANTS (2003) (519)
- Plant zonation in low‐latitude salt marshes: disentangling the roles of flooding, salinity and competition (2005) (464)
- Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment. (2007) (310)
- Epiphyte host preferences and host traits: mechanisms for species-specific interactions (2002) (240)
- LINKING BIOGEOGRAPHY AND COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PLANT–HERBIVORE INTERACTION STRENGTH (2005) (235)
- Economic development and coastal ecosystem change in China (2014) (195)
- Salt Marsh Communities (2008) (189)
- THE ADVANTAGES OF CLONAL INTEGRATION UNDER DIFFERENT ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS: A COMMUNITY-WIDE TEST (2000) (187)
- Parasitic plants: parallels and contrasts with herbivores (2002) (174)
- Impact of a parasitic plant on the structure and dynamics of salt marsh vegetation (1996) (169)
- Latitudinal variation in herbivore pressure in Atlantic Coast salt marshes. (2009) (167)
- GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INTERACTIONS AMONG SALT MARSH PLANTS (2003) (165)
- Selectivity and Growth of the Generalist Herbivore Dolabella Auricularia Feeding Upon Complementary Resources (1993) (158)
- LATITUDINAL DIFFERENCES IN PLANT PALATABILITY IN ATLANTIC COAST SALT MARSHES (2001) (156)
- Effect of Plant Toughness, Calcification, and Chemistry on Herbivory by Dolabella Auricularia (1992) (154)
- Feeding preferences of a generalist salt-marsh crab: relative importance of multiple plant traits (1998) (132)
- Feeding preferences of supralittoral isopods and amphipods. (2000) (117)
- Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments (2005) (116)
- Habitat range and phenotypic variation in salt marsh plants (2005) (107)
- Ecosystem Functions of Tidal Fresh, Brackish, and Salt Marshes on the Georgia Coast (2010) (101)
- Rapid headward erosion of marsh creeks in response to relative sea level rise (2009) (100)
- Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed (2019) (98)
- LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PALATABILITY OF SALT-MARSH PLANTS: WHICH TRAITS ARE RESPONSIBLE? (2002) (98)
- Effects of Wrack Burial in Salt-Stressed Habitats: Batis Maritima in a Southwest Atlantic Salt Marsh (1998) (96)
- Facilitation May Buffer Competitive Effects: Indirect and Diffuse Interactions among Salt Marsh Plants (2000) (96)
- Diet choice in an omnivorous salt-marsh crab: different food types, body size, and habitat complexity (2003) (96)
- Diet-derived chemical defenses in the sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy et Gaimard 1824) (1991) (96)
- Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition (2012) (94)
- Sequestration of dietary secondary metabolites by three species of sea hares: location, specificity and dynamics (1993) (93)
- Disturbance and Recovery of Salt Marsh Arthropod Communities following BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2012) (91)
- Rank clocks and plant community dynamics. (2008) (87)
- Is Diet Quality an Overlooked Mechanism for Bergmann’s Rule? (2009) (87)
- LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PALATABILITY OF SALT-MARSH PLANTS: ARE DIFFERENCES CONSTITUTIVE? (2005) (85)
- Spatial Variation in Process and Pattern in Salt Marsh Plant Communities in Eastern North America (2002) (80)
- Effects of sponge secondary metabolites in different diets on feeding by three groups of consumers (1994) (76)
- Biotic interactions mediate the expansion of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) into salt marshes under climate change (2013) (75)
- Fiddler crab–vegetation interactions in hypersaline habitats (1998) (72)
- Species‐specific patterns of litter processing by terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in high intertidal salt marshes and coastal forests (2002) (69)
- Impact of a parasitic plant on the zonation of two salt marsh perennials (1998) (68)
- Geographical variation in vegetative growth and sexual reproduction of the invasive Spartina alterniflora in China (2016) (67)
- Nutrient effects on the composition of salt marsh plant communities along the Southern Atlantic and gulf coasts of the United States (2002) (66)
- Coastal regime shifts: rapid responses of coastal wetlands to changes in mangrove cover. (2017) (65)
- Latitudinal variation in plant–herbivore interactions in European salt marshes (2007) (65)
- Mechanisms mediating plant distributions across estuarine landscapes in a low-latitude tidal estuary. (2012) (64)
- Secondary chemistry does not limit dietary range of the specialist sea hare Stylocheilus longicauda (Quoy et Gaimard 1824) (1993) (64)
- Salt marsh litter and detritivores: A closer look at redundancy (2004) (60)
- Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Salt Marsh Periwinkles (Littoraria irrorata). (2016) (54)
- Environmental gradients and herbivore feeding preferences in coastal salt marshes (2004) (50)
- Impact of Fertilization on a Salt Marsh Food Web in Georgia (2008) (47)
- Distribution of mycosporine-like amino acids in the sea hare Aplysia dactylomela: effect of diet on amounts and types sequestered over time in tissues and spawn. (2000) (46)
- Effects of Oil Spills on Terrestrial Arthropods in Coastal Wetlands (2014) (46)
- Climate Drivers of Spartina alterniflora Saltmarsh Production in Georgia, USA (2014) (46)
- Unpalatable Compounds in the Marine Gastropod Dolabella auricularia: Distribution and Effect of Diet (1999) (44)
- Interspecific variation in chemical defenses in the sea hares (Opisthobranchia: Anaspidea) (1994) (44)
- Size-related shifts in herbivory: specialization in the sea hare Aplysia californica Cooper (1990) (43)
- Chemical defenses of the tropical, benthic marine cyanobacterium Hormothamnion enteromorphoides: Diverse consumers and synergisms (1997) (42)
- Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Impacts on Salt Marsh Fiddler Crabs (Uca spp.) (2016) (41)
- Reproductive behavior of Aplysia californica Cooper: diel patterns, sexual roles and mating aggregations (1991) (40)
- Variation in microplastics composition at small spatial and temporal scales in a tidal flat of the Yangtze Estuary, China. (2020) (39)
- Latitudinal variation in resistance and tolerance to herbivory of a salt marsh shrub (2014) (39)
- Latitudinal variation in top-down and bottom-up control of a salt marsh food web. (2011) (38)
- Effects of epiphytic lichens on host preference of the vascular epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides (2001) (38)
- Landscape Estimates of Habitat Types, Plant Biomass, and Invertebrate Densities in a Georgia Salt Marsh (2013) (38)
- Ecosystem engineers drive creek formation in salt marshes. (2017) (36)
- Consequences of omnivory for trophic interactions on a salt marsh shrub. (2008) (34)
- Provenance-by-environment interaction of reproductive traits in the invasion of Spartina alterniflora in China. (2017) (33)
- Patterns of Plant Diversity in Georgia and Texas Salt Marshes (2008) (33)
- Seeking salt: herbivorous prairie insects can be co-limited by macronutrients and sodium. (2018) (32)
- Effects of secondary metabolites and CaCO3 on feeding by surgeonfishes and parrotfishes: within-plant comparisons (1996) (31)
- Biotic homogenization of wetland nematode communities by exotic Spartina alterniflora in China. (2019) (30)
- Supporting Spartina: Interdisciplinary perspective shows Spartina as a distinct solid genus. (2019) (30)
- Multiple factors promoting narrow host range in the sea hare, Aplysia californica (1990) (29)
- Like herbivores, parasitic plants are limited by host nitrogen content (2008) (29)
- Relative influence of deterministic processes on structuring marsh plant communities varies across an abiotic gradient (2014) (28)
- Mapping salt marsh soil properties using imaging spectroscopy (2019) (28)
- Indirect Interactions on Coral Reefs (1997) (28)
- Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment (2011) (28)
- Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) Species Composition and Size Across Latitude in Atlantic Coast Salt Marshes (2008) (27)
- A Research Framework to Integrate Cross-Ecosystem Responses to Tropical Cyclones (2020) (26)
- Resistance to Hurricane Effects Varies Among Wetland Vegetation Types in the Marsh–Mangrove Ecotone (2019) (26)
- The Effect of Mercury and PCBs on Organisms from Lower Trophic Levels of a Georgia Salt Marsh (2001) (26)
- SPECIES RESPONSES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN HERBACEOUS PLANT COMMUNITIES, AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES TRAITS Ecological Archives E089-070 (2008) (25)
- A test of novel function(s) for the ink of sea hares (1999) (24)
- A System Level Analysis of Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Hurricane Impacts (2020) (24)
- Spatial and temporal variation in recruitment of Aplysia californica Cooper : patterns, mechanisms and consequences (1991) (23)
- Vulnerability of sea hares to fish predators: importance of diet and fish species (2001) (23)
- Geographic variation in salt marsh structure and function (2012) (23)
- Sex- and habitat-specific movement of an omnivorous semi-terrestrial crab controls habitat connectivity and subsidies: a multi-parameter approach (2015) (23)
- Contrasting plant adaptation strategies to latitude in the native and invasive range of Spartina alterniflora. (2019) (22)
- Testing for Synergisms between Chemical and Mineral Defenses‐‐A Comment (1996) (22)
- Quantifying how changing mangrove cover affects ecosystem carbon storage in coastal wetlands. (2020) (21)
- Preference and Performance in Plant–Herbivore Interactions across Latitude–A Study in U.S. Atlantic Salt Marshes (2013) (21)
- Disturbance in Georgia salt marshes: variation across space and time (2016) (21)
- Five years of Deepwater Horizon oil spill effects on marsh periwinkles Littoraria irrorata (2017) (21)
- A comparison of coastal habitat restoration projects in China and the United States (2019) (20)
- Timing of disturbance affects biomass and flowering of a saltmarsh plant and attack by stem‐boring herbivores (2017) (19)
- Multiscale Diversity in the Marshes of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER (2010) (18)
- Decomposition of Leaf Litter in a U.S. Saltmarsh is Driven by Dominant Species, Not Species Complementarity (2013) (18)
- Ecology: The big picture of marsh loss (2012) (18)
- Effects of an Omnivorous Katydid, Salinity, and Nutrients on a Planthopper-Spartina Food Web (2012) (17)
- Using a marsh organ to predict future plant communities in a Chinese estuary invaded by an exotic grass and mangrove (2018) (17)
- Climate and geographic adaptation drive latitudinal clines in biomass of a widespread saltmarsh plant in its native and introduced ranges (2020) (16)
- Assessing salt marsh health: A test of the utility of five potential indicators (2002) (16)
- Microspatial Differences in Soil Temperature Cause Phenology Change on Par with Long-Term Climate Warming in Salt Marshes (2019) (15)
- Post-ingestive consequences of consuming secondary metabolites in sea hares (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) (1995) (14)
- Zonation of shrubs in western Atlantic salt marshes (2001) (13)
- SLR and ecosystem services: a response to Kirwan and Guntenspergen (2009) (12)
- South Atlantic Tidal Wetlands (2012) (12)
- Marine ecoregion and Deepwater Horizon oil spill affect recruitment and population structure of a salt marsh snail (2016) (11)
- Constraints on host use by a parasitic plant (2010) (11)
- Dynamic Management of Water Storage for Flood Control in a Wetland System: A Case Study in Texas (2018) (11)
- Geographic Variation in Plant Community Structure of Salt Marshes: Species, Functional and Phylogenetic Perspectives (2015) (11)
- Responses of Tidal Freshwater and Brackish Marsh Macrophytes to Pulses of Saline Water Simulating Sea Level Rise and Reduced Discharge (2018) (11)
- Effects of Small-Scale Armoring and Residential Development on the Salt Marsh-Upland Ecotone (2018) (11)
- Chronic but not acute saltwater intrusion leads to large release of inorganic N in a tidal freshwater marsh. (2019) (10)
- Hemolymph homeostasis in relation to diel feeding activity and microclimate in the prototypal land isopod Ligia pallasii (2000) (10)
- Post-mortem ecosystem engineering by oysters creates habitat for a rare marsh plant (2012) (9)
- Woody structure facilitates invasion of woody plants by providing perches for birds (2017) (9)
- Effects of mangrove cover on coastal erosion during a hurricane in Texas, USA. (2021) (9)
- Effects of mangrove encroachment on tidal wetland plant, nekton, and bird communities in the Western Gulf of Mexico (2020) (9)
- Swimming in the sea hare Aplysia brasiliana : Cost of transport, parapodial morphometry, and swimming behavior (2006) (9)
- Predators mediate above‐ vs. belowground herbivory in a salt marsh crab (2018) (8)
- Diet mixing in a parasitic plant: adaptation or constraint? (2010) (8)
- Self‐thinning and size‐dependent flowering of the grass Spartina alterniflora across space and time (2019) (8)
- Climate drivers of Zizaniopsis miliacea biomass in a Georgia, U.S.A. tidal fresh marsh (2018) (7)
- Effects of grasshoppers on prairies: Herbivore composition matters more than richness in three grassland ecosystems (2018) (6)
- Predator/Prey-Interactions Promote Decomposition of Low-Quality Detritus (2012) (6)
- Importance of local vs. geographic variation in salt marsh plant quality for arthropod herbivore communities (2013) (6)
- Response and Recovery of Low-Salinity Marsh Plant Communities to Presses and Pulses of Elevated Salinity (2018) (6)
- Disturbance is complicated: Headward‐eroding saltmarsh creeks produce multiple responses and recovery trajectories (2021) (6)
- Weak latitudinal gradients in insect herbivory for dominant rangeland grasses of North America (2020) (6)
- Influence of proximal stimuli on swimming in the sea hare Aplysia brasiliana (2003) (5)
- 1. Ecology of Freshwater and Estuarine Wetlands: An Introduction (2019) (5)
- Predator–prey interactions in a ladybeetle–aphid system depend on spatial scale (2018) (5)
- Plasticity and selection drive hump-shaped latitudinal patterns of flowering phenology in an invasive intertidal plant. (2021) (4)
- Consistent pattern of higher lability of leaves from high latitudes for both native Phragmites australis and exotic Spartina alterniflora (2021) (4)
- Impact of tidal inundation on the net ecosystem exchange in daytime conditions in a salt marsh (2020) (4)
- Community Ecology of Salt Marshes (2021) (3)
- the roles of flooding, salinity and competition (2005) (3)
- Buried hurricane legacies: increased nutrient limitation and decreased root biomass in coastal wetlands (2021) (3)
- Forging Collaborations between Ecology and Historical Ecology (2013) (3)
- Dietary protein and sodium co‐limit cockroach growth and reproduction (2022) (2)
- State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network (2021) (2)
- Drivers of litter mass loss and faunal composition of detritus patches change over time (2021) (2)
- Contrasting latitudinal clines of nematode diversity in Spartina alterniflora salt marshes between native and introduced ranges (2020) (2)
- Program Profile: The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Project (GCE‐LTER) (2015) (2)
- Estimation of Abundance and Distribution of Salt Marsh Plants from Images Using Deep Learning (2021) (2)
- Crazy ants craving calcium: macronutrients and micronutrients can limit and stress an invaded grassland brown food web. (2020) (2)
- Functional and taxonomic diversity of grasshoppers differentially shape above‐ and below‐ground communities and their function (2020) (1)
- Competition and abiotic stress affect the size of mangroves near their geographic range limit (2021) (1)
- Lessons from the invasion of Spartina alterniflora in coastal China. (2022) (1)
- Responses of a tidal freshwater marsh plant community to chronic and pulsed saline intrusion (2022) (1)
- Decomposition of Leaf Litter in a U.S. Saltmarsh is Driven by Dominant Species, Not Species Complementarity (2012) (1)
- Directional movement of consumer fronts associated with creek heads in salt marshes. (2021) (1)
- Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition (2012) (1)
- Coastal carbon processing rates increase with mangrove cover following a hurricane in Texas, USA (2022) (1)
- Modeling Channelization in Coastal Wetlands with Ecological Feedbacks (2014) (0)
- Responses of Tidal Freshwater and Brackish Marsh Macrophytes to Pulses of Saline Water Simulating Sea Level Rise and Reduced Discharge (2018) (0)
- 5. Development of Wetland Plant Communities (2019) (0)
- Sex- and habitat-specific movement of an omnivorous semi-terrestrial crab controls habitat connectivity and subsidies: a multi-parameter approach (2015) (0)
- Swimming in the Sea Hare Aplysia brasiliana: Cost of Transport, Morphometry and Swimming Behavior (2006) (0)
- A hurricane alters the relationship between mangrove cover and marine subsidies. (2022) (0)
- COVER SHEET FOR PROPOSAL TO THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION ATM - HIGH-PERFORM INSTR AIR PLAT FO Airborne (1999) (0)
- Insights into Salt Marsh Plant Community Distributions Through Computer Vision and Structural Equation Modeling (2022) (0)
- Geographic variation in salt marsh structure and function (2012) (0)
- Variation in Densities of the Salt Marsh Katydid Orchelimum fidicinium over Space and Time (2021) (0)
- Insights from Observations and Manipulative Experiments into Competition Between Mangroves and Salt Marsh Vegetation (2023) (0)
- Variation in synchrony of production among species, sites, and intertidal zones in coastal marshes. (2020) (0)
- Interactive Effects of Nutrients and Stress on the Strength of Top-down and Bottom-up Forces in Texas Salt Marshes (2006) (0)
- Title Geographical variation in vegetative growth and sexual reproduction of the invasive Spartina alterniflora in China Permalink (2015) (0)
- Microspatial Differences in Soil Temperature Cause Phenology Change on Par with Long-Term Climate Warming in Salt Marshes (2019) (0)
- Rapid evolution of a marsh tidal creek network in response to sea level rise. (2008) (0)
- Correction to: Effects of Small-Scale Armoring and Residential Development on the Salt Marsh-Upland Ecotone (2019) (0)
- Post-mortem ecosystem engineering by oysters creates habitat for a rare marsh plant (2012) (0)
- Temporal and Spatial Variation in the Recruitment of the Sea Hare, Aplysia californica, at Santa Catalina Island, California (1993) (0)
- PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSITY IN TWO SALT MARSH REGIONS (2007) (0)
- PATTERNS OF PLANT DIVERSITY IN TWO SALT MARSH REGIONS (2007) (0)
- Climate Drivers of Spartina alterniflora Saltmarsh Production in Georgia, USA (2013) (0)
- “ Dead Marsh ” BIOBLAST Overview Georgia Coastal Ecosystems ( GCE ) LTER Program Field Sampling : (2003) (0)
- Georgia Coastal Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research Project Marsh Hammock Research – 2008 (2008) (0)
- Predator/Prey-Interactions Promote Decomposition of Low-Quality Detritus (2012) (0)
- The Opposite of Biotic Resistance: Herbivory and Competition Suppress Regeneration of Native but Not Introduced Mangroves in Southern China (2022) (0)
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