Paul Keddy - Books

Books

Synthesis is one of Paul Keddy's major contributions to wetland ecology and plant ecology. His first book, Competition, won both the George Lawson Medal of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Henry Allan Gleason Award of the New York Botanical Garden. A second edition of Competition “the book with the fighting zebras on the cover” was published in 2001.

A major area of research for Keddy, ecological assembly rules (the constraints (rules) on community formation and maintenance (assembly), was the subject of his co-edited synthesis Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats.

In 2006 Dr. Keddy was honoured by the Society of Wetland Scientists with the Merit Award for Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. A new edition of Wetland Ecology was published in 2010. This textbook is used in courses around the world. In 2005 he focused on the world's largest wetlands which had not previously been described, ranked or compared, and co-edited The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation.

In 2007, he published Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences, a textbook on plant ecology.

In addition to scientific writing, Dr. Keddy has prepared guides to the natural history of two regions of North America. For the State of Louisiana he authored Water, Earth, Fire: Louisiana's Natural Heritage. For Lanark County, Ontario, he wrote Earth, Water, Fire: An Ecological Profile of Lanark County. For this contribution Dr. Keddy was given a Champion of Nature Award by the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (2008) and the Lanark County Award of Excellence—Heritage and Ecology by the county (2009).