W. Ryan James
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
37 Papers
22 Citations
W. Ryan James is an academic researcher from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Environmental science. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of W. Ryan James include University of Alabama & University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Papers
Fisheries rely on threatened salt marshes.
Ronald Baker,Matthew D. Taylor,Kenneth W. Able,Michael W. Beck,Just Cebrian,Denise D. Colombano,Rod M. Connolly,Carolyn A. Currin,Linda A. Deegan,Ilka C. Feller,Ben L. Gilby,Matthew E. Kimball,Thomas J. Minello,Lawrence P. Rozas,Charles A. Simenstad,R. Eugene Turner,Nathan J. Waltham,Michael P. Weinstein,Shelby L. Ziegler,Philine S. E. zu Ermgassen,Caitlin Alcott,Scott B. Alford,Myriam A. Barbeau,Sarah C. Crosby,Kate Dodds,Alyssa Frank,Janelle A. Goeke,Lucy A. Goodridge Gaines,Felicity E. Hardcastle,Christopher J. Henderson,W. Ryan James,Matthew D. Kenworthy,Justin S. Lesser,Debbrota Mallick,Charles W. Martin,Ashley E. McDonald,Catherine McLuckie,Blair H. Morrison,James A. Nelson,Gregory S. Norris,Jeff Ollerhead,James Pahl,Sarah Ramsden,Jennifer S. Rehage,James F. Reinhardt,Ryan J. Rezek,L. Mark Risse,Joseph A. M. Smith,Eric L. Sparks,Lorie W. Staver +49 more
TL;DR: Preventing further losses of salt marshes and associated fisheries production will require greater public awareness and difficult choices in coastal policy and management, underpinned by greater understanding of marsh function.
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Assessment of food web recovery following restoration using resource niche metrics.
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that hypervolume analysis is a powerful tool that can be used to quantify energy flow, the recovery of food web function, and measure restoration success, and test recently developed niche metrics as a tool to assess the degree of recovery of ecosystem energy flow.
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Food web response to foundation species change in a coastal ecosystem
James A. Nelson,Justin S. Lesser,W. Ryan James,David P. Behringer,Victoria Furka,Jennifer C. Doerr +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, stable isotopes and Bayesian mixing models were used to determine the contributions of primary production sources to the food webs in Louisiana saltmarshes currently experiencing rapid mangrove encroachment.
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