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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:01:07.741168'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/beth-a-middleton
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D., Botany, Iowa State University, 1989
   - 'Advisors: van der Valk/Davis'
   - M.S., University of Minnesota Duluth, 1983
   - B.S., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1978
   email: middletonb@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - aquatic ecosystems
   - biodiversity
   - biogeography
   - ecological processes
   - ecosystem diversity
   - ecosystem functions
   - ecosystems
   - environmental assessment
   - estuarine ecosystems
   - forest ecosystems
   - freshwater ecosystems
   - grassland ecosystems
   - habitat alteration
   - habitats
   - island ecosystems
   - shrubland ecosystems
   - wetland ecosystems
   - drought stress and population collapse
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Beth Middleton is a Research Ecologist at the USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research
     Center.
   name: Beth A Middleton, Ph. D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-1220-2326
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/wetland-and-aquatic-research-center
   organization_name: Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
   personal_statement: Wetland function may be altered in the future because of dynamic
     shifts in droughts, water extraction, water fluctuation, salinity intrusion,
     CO2 levels, and storm intensity. Populations of species can be extirpated especially
     by drought, and tree mortality is especially common at the edges of species
     diestribution ranges during drought. Beth Middleton examines patterns of  ecosystem
     function along latitudinal gradients in baldcypress swamps, monsoonal wetlands,
     mangrove swamps, northern peatleands, prairie fens, and floodplain wetlands.
     She has organized symposia, written three books, and edited three special journal
     volumes, which support multidisciplinary comparisons and research analysis of
     wetland function. Other research topics include the effects of hurricanes on
     coastal wetlands, flood pulsing in restoration, and biodiversity loss in fens
     of Europe, Asia and North America. Middleton maintains a research network of
     baldcypress swamps (North American Baldcypress Swamp Network) and invites other
     researchers to work in these study sites dedicated to the study of long term
     function of swamps in the southeastern US.
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Ecologist