Recent Publications

• Zinnen, J., J.W. Matthews, D.N. Zaya. 2023. Noteworthy collections: First record of a natural hybrid between Phlox divaricata ssp. laphamii (Alph. Wood) Wherry and Phlox pilosa ssp. sangamonensis (Levin & D.M. Sm.). Castanea 88:184-190.
• Tillman, S.C., and J.W. Matthews. 2023. Evaluating the ability of wetland mitigation banks to replace plant species lost from destroyed wetlands. Journal of Applied Ecology 60:990-998. 10.1111/1365-2664.14391
• Tovar, E., and J.W. Matthews. 2023. Species richness and floristic quality metrics differ in their sensitivity to Lonicera maackii invasions with increasing area. Natural Areas Journal 43:108-116. 10.3375/0885-8608-43.2.108
• Charles, B., M.H. Chase, G. Pociask, R. Bhattarai and J.W. Matthews. 2023. Restored wetlands are greatly influenced by hydrology and non-native plant invasion. Wetlands Ecology and Management 31:129-142. 10.1007/s11273-022-09905-0
• Kinsman-Costello, L., E. Bean, A. Goeckner, J.W. Matthews, M. O’Driscoll, M. Palta, A. Peralta, A.J. Reisinger, G. Reyes, A. Smyth and M. Stofan. 2023. Mud in the city: Effects of freshwater salinization on urban wetland nitrogen and phosphorus availability and export. Limnology and Oceanography Letters 8:112-130. 10.1002/lol2.10273
• Zinnen, J., and J.W. Matthews. 2022. Species composition and ecological characteristics of native seed mixes in the Midwest (USA). Ecological Restoration 40:247-258. 10.3368/er.40.4.247
• Charles, B., M.H. Chase, G. Pociask, R. Bhattarai and J.W. Matthews. 2022. Can functional leaf traits be used for monitoring wetland restoration? A comparison between commonly used monitoring metrics and functional leaf traits. Ecological Indicators 140:109032. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.109032
• Zinnen, J., B. Charles, D.N. Zaya and J.W. Matthews. 2022. Functional traits and responses to nutrient and mycorrhizal addition are inconsistently related to wetland plant species’ coefficients of conservatism. Wetlands Ecology and Management 30:513-526. 10.1007/s11273-022-09877-1
• Zinnen, J., and J.W. Matthews. 2022. Native species richness of commercial plant vendors in the Midwestern United States. Native Plants Journal 22:4-15. 10.3368/npj.23.1.4
• Xu, S., N.F. Martin, J.W. Matthews and Y. Arai. 2022. Accumulation and release of organic phosphorus (P) from legacy P-affected soils to adjacent drainage water. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 29:33885-33899. 10.1007/s11356-021-18481-4
• Tillman, S.C., G. Spyreas, A. Olnas and J.W. Matthews. 2022. Plant communities in wetland mitigation banks surpass the quality of those in the most degraded, naturally occurring wetlands, but fall short of high-quality wetlands. Ecological Engineering 176:106526. 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2021.106526
• López-Tapia, S., P. Ruiz, M. Smith, J. Matthews, B. Zercher, L. Sydorenko, N. Varia, Y. Jin, M. Wang, J.B. Dunn and A.K. Katsaggelos. 2021. Machine learning with high-resolution aerial imagery and data fusion to improve and automate the detection of wetlands. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 105:102581. 10.1016/j.jag.2021.102581
• Stern, J.L., B.D. Herman and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Coefficients of Conservatism for the flora of the Middle Rio Grande floodplain. Southwestern Naturalist 65:141-151. 10.1894/0038-4909-65.2.141
• Stern, J.L., B.D. Herman and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Determining vegetation metric robustness to environmental and methodological variables. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 193:647. 10.1007/s10661-021-09445-9
• Zinnen, J., L.M. Broadhurst, P. Gibson-Roy, T.A. Jones and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Seed production areas are crucial to conservation outcomes: Benefits and risks of an emerging restoration tool. Biodiversity and Conservation 30:1233-1256. 10.1007/s10531-021-02149-z
• Robertson, M., S.M. Galatowitsch and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Wetland compensation and landscape change in a rapidly urbanizing context. Environmental Management 67:355-370. 10.1007/s00267-020-01380-8
• Zinnen, J., G. Spyreas, D.N. Zaya and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Niche ecology in Floristic Quality Assessment: Are species with higher conservatism more specialized? Ecological Indicators 121:107078. 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107078
• Zinnen, J., G. Spyreas, L. Erdős, C. Berg and J.W. Matthews. 2021. Expert-based measures of human impact to vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science 24:e12523. 10.1111/avsc.12523
• Blake-Bradshaw, A.G., J.D. Lancaster, J.R. O’Connell, J.W. Matthews, M.W. Eichholz and H.M. Hagy. 2020. Suitability of wetlands for migrating and breeding waterbirds in Illinois. Wetlands 40:1993-2010 10.1007/s13157-020-01276-7
• Price, E.P.F., G. Spyreas and J.W. Matthews. 2020. Biotic homogenization of wetland vegetation in the conterminous United States driven by Phalaris arundinacea and anthropogenic disturbance. Landscape Ecology 35:779-792. 10.1007/s10980-020-00978-x
• Matthews, J.W., S. McIntyre, A.L. Peralta and C. Rodgers. 2020. Long-term assessment of alternative strategies for the restoration of floodplain forest in the presence of an invasive grass, Phalaris arundinacea. Wetlands 40:655-665. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01204-4
• Sonter, L.J., M. Barnes, J.W. Matthews and M. Maron. 2019. Quantifying habitat losses and gains made by US Species Conservation Banks to improve compensation policies and avoid perverse outcomes. Conservation Letters 12:e12629. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12629
• Price, E.P.F., G. Spyreas and J.W. Matthews. 2019. Wetland compensation and its impacts on β-diversity. Ecological Applications 29:e01827. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap.1827
• Matthews, J.W., G.E. Pociask, E.P.F. Price and A.E. Krzywicka. 2019. Flood exposure affects long-term tree survival in compensatory mitigation wetlands. Wetlands 39:1129-1138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-019-01158-7
• Robertson, M., S.M. Galatowitsch and J.W. Matthews. 2018. Longitudinal evaluation of vegetation richness and cover at wetland compensation sites: implications for regulatory monitoring under the Clean Water Act. Wetlands Ecology and Management 26:1089-1105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-018-9633-8
• Skultety, D. and J.W. Matthews. 2018. Human land use as a driver of plant community composition in wetlands of the Chicago metropolitan region. Urban Ecosystems 21:447-458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-018-0730-5
• Price, E.P.F., G. Spyreas and J.W. Matthews. 2018. Biotic homogenization of regional wetland plant communities within short timescales in the presence of an aggressive invader. Journal of Ecology 106:1180-1190. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12883/full