Publications

Recent Publications

  • Zinnen, J., M.H. Chase, B. Charles, J. Meissen and J.W. Matthews. 2025. RELIX: a dataset of vascular plant species presence for 353 prairie remnants in the Midwestern United States, with prairie remnant metadata. Natural Areas Journal, in press.
  • Zinnen, J., G. Spyreas, S. K. Jog, J. T. Bried and J.W. Matthews. 2025. What is ecological conservatism? A template analysis of its definitions. Natural Areas Journal 45: 96-104. https://doi.org/10.3375/2162-4399-45.2.5
  • Zinnen, J., M.H. Chase, B. Charles, A. Harmon-Threatt and J.W. Matthews. 2025. Pollinator seed mixes are phenologically dissimilar to prairie remnants. Restoration Ecology 33: e14352. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14352
  • Huang, A.H. and J.W. Matthews. 2025. Influence of light availability and water depth on competition between Phalaris arundinacea and herbaceous vines. Wetlands 45: 20. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-025-01905-z
  • Zinnen, J., R.S. Barak and J.W. Matthews. 2025. Influence of ecological characteristics and phylogeny on native plant species’ commercial availability. Ecological Applications 35:e3070. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3070
  • Huang, A.H. and J.W. Matthews. 2024. The invasion of Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus) in a restored floodplain forest. Invasive Plant Science and Management 17:258-266. https://doi.org/10.1017/inp.2024.25
  • Zinnen, J., B. Charles, C. Wilhelm and J.W. Matthews. 2024. Wetland portrayal in modern films. Wetlands 44: 97. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-024-01840-5
  • Tillman, S.C., and J.W. Matthews. 2024. Compliance with regulatory performance standards in wetland mitigation banks. Wetlands 44:80. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13157-024-01836-1
  • Zinnen, J., J.W. Matthews and D.N. Zaya. 2024. Genetic diversity, reproductive success, and genetic differentiation from congeners in the narrow endemic Phlox pilosa ssp. sangamonensis. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 15:138-163. https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-23-00025.1
  • Zinnen, J., J.W. Matthews and D.N. Zaya. 2024. 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. https://doi.org/10.2179/0008-7475.88.2.184
  • 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