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Karin M. Kettenring

Karin M. Kettenring is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Karin M. Kettenring rather than just read about it. In short: Karin M. Kettenring is an American plant ecologist based in Logan, Utah.

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Reference excerpt

Karin M. Kettenring is an American plant ecologist based in Logan, Utah. Her research focuses primarily on aspects of wetland plant ecology, including invasive plant ecology and management, native wetland seeds and seedlings, and wetland restoration. Kettenring worked in several labs and research stations across the United States before obtaining a faculty position at Utah State University as a professor of wetland ecology. Her most cited publication, “Lessons learned from invasive plant control experiments: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” looks at the literature discussing invasives species control experiments and how to ensure that research practices are most effective.

Early life and education Kettenring grew up in Summit, New Jersey. In school, she enjoyed mathematics and was a part of orchestra and the track team. She attended Oberlin College from 1994 to 1998 and obtained an undergraduate degree in biology. She then interned at the Archbold Biological Station in Lake Placid, Florida from June 1999 to July 2000 where she worked on a project that focused on tracking herbivore activity on the endangered Liatris ohlingerae. From 2000 to 2006, she attended the University of Minnesota, where she received her Ph.D. in Applied Plant Sciences. Her dissertation was titled "Seed ecology of wetland Carex species-implications for restoration." Kettenring's doctoral advisor was Susan M. Galatowitsch.

Career and research Kettenring began her career as a graduate research assistant during her time at the University of Minnesota. She then conducted post-doctoral research for the Field Museum of Natural History and the Morton Arboretum in 2006 with Andrew Hipp. After that, she was a postdoctoral fellow for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland from 2006 to 2008 where her work focused on the invasion of Phragmites australis in Chesapeake Bay tidal wetlands. Kettenring then moved on to work as a faculty member at Utah State University since 2008. She has taught courses in wetland ecology and management, principles of aquatic ecosystem restoration, ecology and restoration of wetland and riparian plants, and restoration ecology. Kettenring is the head of the Wetland Ecology Restoration Lab in the Department of Watershed Sciences. The research in her lab focuses on addressing questions relating to the mechanisms and impacts of plant invasions in wetlands. She also studies the restoration of wetlands with a particular focus on seed and seedling ecology as well as the importance of diversity to wetland functioning. Many of her research projects are conducted in collaboration with wetland managers to ensure that research outputs can inform and improve wetland management and restoration. Her research is conducted in freshwater and brackish wetlands around Utah (especially Great Salt Lake and Utah Lake) as well as in the Chesapeake Bay, Suisun Marsh in California, and the Platte River in Nebraska. She previously conducted research in the prairie pothole wetlands of Minnesota and Iowa. Kettenring's professional life extends beyond her work at the university to include participation in several professional societies. She served as treasurer in the Society for Ecological Restoration Great Basin Chapter from 2014 to 2016. In addition, she served as chair of the Society of Wetland Scientists Women in Wetlands Section from 2017 to 2018. Kettenring has served as the at-large director for the Society for Ecological Restoration, International Network for Seed-based Restoration since 2018. She is also affiliated with the Ecological Society of America.

Selected publications

Adams, S.M. Hovick, N.O. Anderson, and K.M. Kettenring. 2021. We can better manage ecosystems by connecting solutions to constraints: Learning from wetland plant invasions. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9:715350. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffenvs.2021.715350 Kettenring, K.M. and E.E. Tarsa. 2020. Need to seed? Ecological, genetic, and evolutionary keys to seed-based wetland restoration. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8 (109): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffenvs.2020.00109 Rohal, C.B., K.M. Kettenring, K. Sims, E.L.G. Hazelton, and Z. Ma. 2018. Surveying managers to inform a regionally relevant invasive Phragmites australis research program. Journal of Environmental Management, 206: 807–816. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.jenvman.2017.10.049 Kettenring, K.M., K.L. Mercer, C. Reinhardt Adams, and J. Hines. 2014. Application of genetic diversity-ecosystem function research to ecological restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51: 339–348. https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1365-2664.12202 Kettenring, Karin M.; Mercer, Kristin L.; Reinhardt Adams, Carrie; Hines, Jes (28 November 2013). Wilsey, Brian (ed.). "EDITOR'S CHOICE: Application of genetic diversity-ecosystem function research to ecological restoration". Journal of Applied Ecology. 51 (2): 339–348. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12202

Awards and honors Kettenring was awarded the Quinney College of Natural Resources Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year in 2017 along with the Quinney College of Natural Resources Graduate Mentor of the Year in 2020.

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

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Applications of Karin M. Kettenring

In research: Karin M. Kettenring appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Karin M. Kettenring in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Karin M. Kettenring is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 21st-century American botanists, American ecologists, American women botanists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Karin M. Kettenring is an American plant ecologist based in Logan, Utah.

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