Personnel Profiles

• Mailing address:
• Bureau of Reclamation
• Sacramento, CA 95825
• Email: benjaminjwilson1@gmail.com

Mazzei, V., B.J. Wilson, S. Servais, S.P. Charles, J. Kominoski, and E.E. Gaiser. 2020. Periphyton as an indicator of saltwater intrusion into freshwater wetlands: insights from experimental manipulations. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.2067.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, C. Coronado-Molina, L. Bauman, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, S.P. Kelly, C.J. Madden, V. Mazzei, D.T. Rudnick, F. Santamaria, F.H. Sklar, J. Stachelek, T. Troxler, and B.J. Wilson. 2020. Effects of saltwater pulses on soil microbial enzymes and organic matter breakdown in freshwater and brackish coastal wetlands. Estuaries and Coasts DOI: 10.1007/s12237-020-00708-1.

Charles, S.P., J. Kominoski, T. Troxler, E.E. Gaiser, S. Servais, B.J. Wilson, S.E. Davis, F.H. Sklar, C. Coronado-Molina, C.J. Madden, S.P. Kelly, and D.T. Rudnick. 2019. Experimental saltwater intrusion drives rapid soil elevation and carbon loss in freshwater and brackish Everglades marshes. Estuaries and Coasts 42: 1868-1881.

Servais, S., J. Kominoski, S.P. Charles, E.E. Gaiser, V. Mazzei, T. Troxler, and B.J. Wilson. 2019. Saltwater intrusion and soil carbon loss: Testing effects of salinity and phosphorus loading on microbial functions in experimental freshwater wetlands. Geoderma 337: 1291-1300.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, V. Mazzei, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2019. Phosphorus alleviation of salinity stress: effects of saltwater intrusion on an Everglades freshwater peat marsh. Ecology 100: e02672.

Mazzei, V., E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, B.J. Wilson, S. Servais, L. Bauman, S.E. Davis, S.P. Kelly, F.H. Sklar, D.T. Rudnick, J. Stachelek, and T. Troxler. 2018. Functional and compositional responses of periphyton mats to simulated saltwater intrusion in the southern Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts 41: 2105-2119.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, A.D. Gottlieb, J. Kominoski, M. Hu, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, F.H. Sklar, L. Bauman, S.P. Kelly, C.J. Madden, J.H. Richards, D.T. Rudnick, J. Stachelek, and T. Troxler. 2018. Salinity pulses interact with seasonal dry-down to increase ecosystem carbon loss in marshes of the Florida Everglades. Ecological Applications 28: 2092-2108.

Wilson, B.J., S. Servais, S.P. Charles, S.E. Davis, E.E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, J.H. Richards, and T. Troxler. 2018. Declines in plant productivity drive carbon loss from brackish coastal wetland mesocosms exposed to saltwater intrusion. Estuaries and Coasts 41: 2147-2158.

Wilson, Benjamin . 2018. Drivers and Mechanisms of Peat Collapse in Coastal Wetlands. Ph.D. dissertation, Florida International University.

Kominoski, J., S.C. Neubauer, R. Bremen, A. Camacho, A. Camacho-Santamans, S.P. Charles, J.A. Cherry, E.E. Gaiser, K. Gedan, A.M. Helton, E. Herbert, K. Ishtiaq, M.L. Kirwan, K.W. Krauss, L. Lamb-Wotton, D. Morant, G.B. Noe, M.J. Osland, T. Troxler, K. Tully, and B.J. Wilson. 2021. Net ecosystem productivity maximized at intermediate salinity increases in diverse coastal wetlands. Association of the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Virtual Meeting, Virtual, June 22, 2021 - June 27, 2021.