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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.. 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 for 30 years, first at the University of Guelph (1978–1982), then the University of Ottawa (1982–1999) and then held the ''Edward G. Schlieder Endowed Chair for Environmental Studies'' at Southeastern Louisiana University (1999 to 2007). He has published over 150 scholarly articles, written seven books, and edited two books. He has been designated a Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information.〔(ISI Highly cited )〕 He received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research in 2007〔http://www.nationalwetlandsawards.org/nwa2007.htm#keddy〕 from the Environmental Law Institute. Although he has worked on many types of plant communities and a broad array of ecological questions, the focus of his work has been upon the principles that organize plant communities, with particular emphasis upon wetlands. ==Books== Synthesis is one of Paul Keddy's major contributions to wetland ecology and plant ecology. His first book, ''Competition'',〔Keddy, P.A. 1989. ''Competition''. (Population and Community Biology Series). Chapman & Hall, 202 p.〕 won both the George Lawson Medal〔http://www.cba-abc.ca/AwardRes.htm〕 of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Henry Allan Gleason Award〔http://www.botany.org/awards_grants/detail/gleason.php〕 of the New York Botanical Garden. A second edition of ''Competition'' was published in 2001.〔Keddy, P.A. 2001. ''Competition''. 2nd edn. Kluwer, 552 p. ISBN 978-1-4020-0229-8 ()〕 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''.〔Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (1999) ''Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats''. Cambridge University Press, 430 p. ISBN 978-0-521-65235-3 ()〕 In 2006 Keddy was honoured by the Society of Wetland Scientists with the Merit Award for ''Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation''.〔Keddy, P.A. 2000. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. Cambridge University Press, 614 p. ISBN 0-521-78367-4 (Google books )〕 A new edition of ''Wetland Ecology''〔Keddy, P.A. 2010. ''Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation''. Cambridge University Press, 497 p. ISBN 9780521519403 ()〕 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''.〔Fraser, L.H. & Keddy, P.A. 2005. ''The World's Largest Wetlands: Ecology and Conservation''. Cambridge University Press, 498 p. ISBN 978-0-521-83404-9 (DOI )〕 In 2007, he published ''Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences'',〔Keddy, P.A. 2007. ''Plants and Vegetation: Origins, Processes, Consequences''. Cambridge University Press, 680 p. ISBN 978-0-521-86480-0 ()〕 a textbook on plant ecology. In addition to scientific writing, 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''.〔Keddy, P.A. 2008. ''Water, Earth, Fire: Louisiana's Natural Heritage''. Xlibris, Philadelphia. 229 p.〕 For Lanark County, Ontario, he wrote ''Earth, Water, Fire: An Ecological Profile of Lanark County''.〔Keddy, P.A. 2008. ''Earth, Water, Fire: An Ecological Profile of Lanark County''. Motion Creative Printing (revised first edition 1999), 73p.〕 For this contribution Keddy was given a Champion of Nature Award by the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (2008)〔''The Lanark Era.'' 2008. Champions for Nature are honoured by Mississippi Valley Feld Naturalists. May 27, p. 4〕 and the Lanark County Award of Excellence—Heritage and Ecology by the county (2009).〔http://www.county.lanark.on.ca/Page1671.aspx〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Keddy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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