J. Patrick Megonigal

Smithsonian Institution — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

73h-index22.0kcitations324works2.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics(144), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology(104), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(38), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics(36), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(32)

Publications322 total

Modeling the mechanisms of coastal vegetation dynamics and ecosystem responses to changing water levels
Biogeosciences·2025Open Access
Transition Zones at the Changing Coastal Terrestrial‐Aquatic Interface
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences·2025Open Access
Short-term experimental flooding impacts soil biogeochemistry but not aboveground vegetation in a coastal forest
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 cited
A Synoptic System for Capturing Ecosystem Control Points Across Terrestrial‐Aquatic Interfaces
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Nitrate reduction across soils transitioning from coastal forest to wetland are hotspots for denitrification
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2025· 7 cited
Biogeochemical controls on iron speciation and cycling across upland to shoreline gradients in freshwater and estuarine coastal soils (Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay, United States)
The Science of The Total Environment·2025
Modeling the mechanisms of coastal vegetation dynamics and ecosystem responses to changing water levels
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Supplementary material to "Modeling the mechanisms of coastal vegetation dynamics and ecosystem responses to changing water levels"
2025Open Access
Climate-induced shifts in sulfate dynamics regulate anaerobic methane oxidation in a coastal wetland
Science Advances·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Short-term coastal forest responses to a hurricane-scale freshwater and saltwater flooding experiment
2025· 2 citedOpen Access
What’s Going on Down There? Impacts of Long-Term Elevated CO2 and Community Composition on Components of Below-Ground Biomass in a Chesapeake Bay Saltmarsh
Hydrobiology·2025Open Access
Revisiting the primary production control on wetland methane emission
2025Open Access
An ecosystem-scale flooding experiment to disentangle mechanisms of coastal forest resilience and vulnerability to extreme flooding events 
2025Open Access
Rhizosphere control on peat carbon stability
2025Open Access
Using probability distribution function as a scaling approach to incorporate soil heterogeneity into biogeochemical models for greenhouse gas predictions (Final Technical Report)
2025Open Access
AquaMEND: Reconciling multiple impacts of salinization on soil carbon biogeochemistry
Soil Biology and Biochemistry·2025· 1 cited
Blue nitrogen follows the fate of tidal wetlands
2025Open Access
Aviões estão despejando água do oceano nos incêndios de Los Angeles - por que a água salgada é normalmente o último recurso
2025Open Access
Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach
Ecosphere·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands
Nature Geoscience·2024· 16 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Scott C. Neubauer(5), J. Adam Langley(5), David Emerson(5), Stephen Crooks(4), James W. Fourqurean(4), Ariana E. Sutton‐Grier(4), Bruce A. Hungate(4), Johanna V. Weiss(4), J. Boone Kauffman(3), Scott D. Bridgham(3), Jason K. Keller(3), William H. Schlesinger(3), Lisa Schile-Beers(3), Yiqi Luo(3), Thomas J. Mozdzer(3), Daniel C. Donato(2), Christopher Craft(2), Núria Marbà(2), Norman B. Bliss(2), Jeffrey J. Kelleway(2)