Paul Keddy

Paul Anthony Keddy (born May 29, 1953 in London, Ontario) was a Canadian ecologist. He studied plant population ecology and community ecology in wetlands and many other habitats in eastern Canada and Louisiana, United States.

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 was a 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 published over 150 scholarly articles, wrote seven books, and edited two books. He was designated a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information)., He received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research in 2007 from the Environmental Law Institute. Although he worked on many types of plant communities and a broad array of ecological questions, the focus of his work was on the principles that organize plant communities, with particular emphasis upon wetlands. Provided by Wikipedia