William J. Mitsch - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

About William Mitsch

"Wetland warrior: Professor brings expertise to environmental front line: The Everglades" Drew Sterwald, Pinnacle, Florida Gulf Coast University's Magazine November 2012

"A life bogged down: Biologist Bill Mitsch spent career at Ohio State creating world-class wetlands" Spencer Hunt, 2012. Columbus Dispatch 30 September 2012

"Working with water" Mason Inman. 2010. Nature Reports Climate Change 4 April 2010 | doi:10.1038/climate.2010.28

"An unseen carbon sink," Melanie Lenart. 2009. Nature Reports Climate Change 26 November 2009 | doi:10.1038/climate.2009.125

Waist-deep in Ecological Integrity, Notre Dame Magazine, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2006

Under Ground by Yvonne Baskin, Island Press, 2005, Chapter VI "Microbes, Muck, and Dead Zones"

Sven Erik Jørgensen, Denmark; William J. Mitsch, USA, Stockholm International Water Institute, 2004

By William Mitsch (from more than 400)

Selected Books

Mitsch, W.J., J.G. Gosselink, C.J. Anderson, and L. Zhang. 2009. Wetland Ecosystems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 295 pp.

Mitsch, W.J. and J.G. Gosselink. 2007. Wetlands, 4th ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 582 pp.

Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jørgensen. 2004. Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 472 pp.

Mitsch, W.J. and S.E. Jørgensen. 1989. Ecological Engineering: An Introduction to Ecotechnology. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 472 pp.

Selected Journal Articles

Bernal, B. and W.J. Mitsch. 2012. Comparing carbon sequestration in temperate freshwater wetland communities. Global Change Biology 18: 1636-1647.

Costanza, R., W.J. Mitsch, and J.W. Day. 2006. A new vision for New Orleans and the Mississippi delta: applying ecological economics and ecological engineering. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4: 465 - 472.

Day, J.W., Jr., C.A.S. Hall, A. Yáñez-Arancibia, D. Pimentel, C. Ibañez Marti, and W. J. Mitsch. 2009. Ecology in times of scarcity. BioScience 59: 321-331.

Day J.W., Jr., D. F. Boesch, E. J. Clairain, G. P. Kemp, S. B. Laska, W. J. Mitsch, K. Orth, H. Mashriqui, D. R. Reed, L. Shabman, C. A. Simenstad, B. J. Streever, R. R. Twilley, C. C. Watson, J. T. Wells, and D. F. Whigham.. 2007. Restoration of the Mississippi Delta: Lessons From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Science 315: 1679-1684.

Hernandez, M.E. and W.J. Mitsch. 2007. Denitrification in created riverine wetlands: Influence of hydrology and season. Ecological Engineering 30: 78-88.

Kusler, J, W.J. Mitsch and J.S. Larson. 1994. Wetlands. Scientific American 270(1): 64-70.

Mitsch, W.J, L. Zhang, K. C. Stefanik, A. M. Nahlik, C. J. Anderson, B. Bernal, M. Hernandez, and K. Song. 2012. Creating wetlands: Primary succession, water quality changes, and self-design over 15 years. BioScience 62: 237-250.

Mitsch, W.J., B. Bernal, A.M. Nahlik, U. Mander, L. Zhang, C.J. Anderson, S.E. Jørgensen, and H. Brix. 2012. Wetlands, carbon, and climate change. Landscape Ecology DOI 10.1007/s10980-012-9758-8

Mitsch, W.J and M. Hernandez. 2012. Landscape and climate change threats to wetlands of North and Central America. Aquatic Sciences DOI 10.1007/s00027-012-0262-7.

Mitsch, W.J. 2012. What is ecological engineering? Ecological Engineering 45: 5-12.

Mitsch, W.J., A.M. Nahlik, P. Wolski, B. Bernal, L. Zhang, and L. Ramberg. 2010. Tropical wetlands: Seasonal hydrologic pulsing, carbon sequestration, and methane emissions. Wetlands Ecology and Management 18: 573-586.

Mitsch, W.J., J, Lu, X. Yuan, W. He, and L. Zhang. 2008. Optimizing ecosystem services in China. Science 322: 528.

Mitsch, W.J., L. Zhang, D.F. Fink, M.E. Hernandez, A.E. Altor, C.L. Tuttle and A.M. Nahlik. 2008. Ecological engineering of floodplains. Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology 8: 139-147.

Mitsch, W.J., J. Tejada, A.M. Nahlik, B. Kohlmann, B, Bernal, and C.E. Hernández. 2008. Tropical wetlands for climate change research, water quality management and conservation education on a university campus in Costa Rica. Ecological Engineering 34: 276-288.

Mitsch, W.J., J.W. Day, Jr., L. Zhang, and R. Lane. 2005. Nitrate-nitrogen retention by wetlands in the Mississippi River Basin. Ecological Engineering 24: 267-278.

Mitsch, W.J. and J.W. Day, Jr. 2004. Thinking big with whole ecosystem studies and ecosystem restoration—A legacy of H.T. Odum. Ecological Modelling 178: 133-155.

Mitsch, William J., John W. Day, Jr., J. Wendell Gilliam, Peter M. Groffman, Donald L. Hey, Gyles W. Randall, and Naiming Wang. 2001. Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River Basin: Strategies to counter a persistent ecological problem. BioScience 51: 373-388.

Mitsch, W.J., X. Wu, R.W. Nairn, P.E. Weihe, N. Wang, R. Deal, C.E. Boucher. 1998. Creating and restoring wetlands: A whole-ecosystem experiment in self-design. BioScience 48: 1019-1030.

Mitsch, W.J. and R.F. Wilson. 1996. Improving the success of wetland creation and restoration with know-how, time, and self-design. Ecological Applications 6:77-83.

Mitsch, W.J. 1995. Restoration of our lakes and rivers with wetlands—an important application of ecological engineering. Water Science and Technology 31:167-177.

Mitsch, W.J., J.K. Cronk, X. Wu, R.W. Nairn and D.L. Hey. 1995. Phosphorus retention in constructed freshwater riparian marshes. Ecological Applications 5:830-845.

Mitsch, W.J. 1993. Ecological engineering—a cooperative role with the planetary life–support systems. Environmental Science & Technology 27:438-445.

Mitsch, W.J. and W.G. Rust. 1984. Tree growth responses to flooding in a bottomland forest in northeastern Illinois. Forest Science 30:499-510.

Mitsch, W.J., C.L. Dorge and J.W. Wiemhoff. 1979. Ecosystem dynamics and a phosphorus budget of an alluvial cypress swamp in southern Illinois. Ecology 60:1116-1124.

Nahlik, A.M. and W.J. Mitsch. 2011. Methane emissions from tropical freshwater wetlands located in different climatic zones of Costa Rica. Global Change Biology 17: 1321-1334.