James T. Morris

12.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
149 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

James T. Morris is a scholar working on Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, James T. Morris has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Ecology, 52 papers in Earth-Surface Processes and 29 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in James T. Morris's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (98 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (42 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (23 papers). James T. Morris is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (98 papers), Coastal and Marine Dynamics (42 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (23 papers). James T. Morris collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. James T. Morris's co-authors include P. V. Sundareshwar, Donald R. Cahoon, Christopher T. Nietch, Simon M. Mudd, Björn Kjerfve, Paul M. Bradley, Andrea D’Alpaos, Matthew L. Kirwan, Glenn R. Guntenspergen and Stijn Temmerman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

James T. Morris

143 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

RESPONSES OF COASTAL WETLANDS TO RISING SEA LEVEL

2002 1.3k citations James T. Morris, Donald R. Cahoon et al. profile →
Limits on the adaptability of coastal marshes to rising sea level

2010 634 citations James T. Morris, Simon M. Mudd et al. Geophysical Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James T. Morris United States	51	7.1k	3.8k	2.0k	1.5k	1.3k	149	9.0k
Robert R. Twilley United States	55	8.9k 1.3×	3.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.7×	2.1k 1.6×	178	11.2k
J. Patrick Megonigal United States	58	9.3k 1.3×	2.2k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	3.8k 2.9×	182	13.4k
Christopher Craft United States	41	5.5k 0.8×	1.6k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	109	6.8k
Irving A. Mendelssohn United States	52	6.9k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	996 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	153	9.2k
Daniel M. Alongi Australia	50	10.4k 1.5×	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	3.4k 2.2×	2.5k 1.9×	143	12.5k
Ken W. Krauss United States	50	8.1k 1.1×	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	164	9.3k
Donald R. Cahoon United States	52	9.5k 1.3×	5.8k 1.5×	3.6k 1.9×	1.3k 0.9×	3.0k 2.3×	104	11.9k
Matthew L. Kirwan United States	44	8.8k 1.2×	6.0k 1.6×	2.9k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	115	9.9k
Steven Bouillon Belgium	51	9.4k 1.3×	2.0k 0.5×	2.0k 1.0×	5.0k 3.3×	3.2k 2.4×	149	13.1k
Víctor H. Rivera‐Monroy United States	40	4.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	829 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	99	5.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Cuizhen, James T. Morris, & Erik M. Smith. (2024). A Lidar Biomass Index of Tidal Marshes from Drone Lidar Point Cloud. Remote Sensing. 16(11). 1823–1823. 2 indexed citations

Morris, James T. & Gary J. Whiting. (2024). Components of the CO ₂ Exchange in a Southeastern USA Salt Marsh. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3.

Morris, James T. & Karen Sundberg. (2024). Responses of Coastal Wetlands to Rising Sea-Level Revisited: The Importance of Organic Production. Estuaries and Coasts. 47(7). 1735–1749. 13 indexed citations

Jafari, Navid H., et al.. (2024). Interplay of Hydroperiod on Root Shear Strength for Coastal Wetlands. Geophysical Research Letters. 51(11). 4 indexed citations

Morris, James T. & Lorie W. Staver. (2024). Elevation Changes in Restored Marshes at Poplar Island, Chesapeake Bay, MD: II. Modeling the Importance of Marsh Development Time. Estuaries and Coasts. 47(7). 1799–1813. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Cuizhen, et al.. (2023). Drone Lidar Deep Learning for Fine-Scale Bare Earth Surface and 3D Marsh Mapping in Intertidal Estuaries. Sustainability. 15(22). 15823–15823. 6 indexed citations

Morris, James T., J. Adam Langley, William C. Vervaeke, et al.. (2023). Mangrove Trees Outperform Saltmarsh Grasses in Building Elevation but Collapse Rapidly Under High Rates of Sea‐Level Rise. Earth s Future. 11(4). 18 indexed citations

Weston, Nathaniel B., et al.. (2023). Recent Acceleration of Wetland Accretion and Carbon Accumulation Along the U.S. East Coast. Earth s Future. 11(3). 19 indexed citations

Mack, Sarah K., et al.. (2022). Wetland carbon models: Applications for wetland carbon commercialization. Ecological Modelling. 476. 110228–110228. 8 indexed citations

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Alizad, Karim, James T. Morris, Matthew V. Bilskie, Davina L. Passeri, & Scott C. Hagen. (2022). Integrated Modeling of Dynamic Marsh Feedbacks and Evolution Under Sea‐Level Rise in a Mesotidal Estuary (Plum Island, MA, USA). Water Resources Research. 58(8). 12 indexed citations

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Rovai, André, et al.. (2022). Biomass allocation of tidal freshwater marsh species in response to natural and manipulated hydroperiod in coastal deltaic floodplains. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 268. 107784–107784. 5 indexed citations

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Törnqvist, Torbjörn E., Donald R. Cahoon, James T. Morris, & John W. Day. (2021). Coastal Wetland Resilience, Accelerated Sea‐Level Rise, and the Importance of Timescale. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 71 indexed citations

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Wang, Cuizhen, et al.. (2021). RGB Indices and Canopy Height Modelling for Mapping Tidal Marsh Biomass from a Small Unmanned Aerial System. Remote Sensing. 13(17). 3406–3406. 15 indexed citations

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Morris, James T., et al.. (2020). Tidal and Hurricane Impacts on Saltmarshes in the Northeastern Coastal and Barrier Network: Theory and Empirical Results. Estuaries and Coasts. 43(7). 1658–1671. 11 indexed citations

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Morris, James T., et al.. (2020). Past, present, and future nuisance flooding on the Charleston peninsula. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238770–e0238770. 16 indexed citations

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Zhu, Xudong, Lingxuan Meng, Yihui Zhang, Qihao Weng, & James T. Morris. (2019). Tidal and Meteorological Influences on the Growth of Invasive Spartina alterniflora: Evidence from UAV Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing. 11(10). 1208–1208. 63 indexed citations

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Morris, James T., et al.. (2019). Estimating Aboveground Biomass and Its Spatial Distribution in Coastal Wetlands Utilizing Planet Multispectral Imagery. Remote Sensing. 11(17). 2020–2020. 35 indexed citations

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Hopkinson, C., James T. Morris, Sergio Fagherazzi, W. M. Wollheim, & Peter A. Raymond. (2018). Lateral Marsh Edge Erosion as a Source of Sediments for Vertical Marsh Accretion. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 123(8). 2444–2465. 112 indexed citations

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Fagherazzi, Sergio, Simon M. Mudd, James T. Morris, & David Jon Furbish. (2004). Flow, sedimentation, and biomass production on a vegetated salt marsh in South Carolina: toward a predictive model of marsh morphologic and ecologic evolution. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 69 indexed citations

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Raguse, C. A., et al.. (1984). Range fertilization in the Sierra Nevada foothills. California Agriculture. 38(5). 4–6. 1 indexed citations

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