Welcome to my site! My name is Dr Matthew Hayes. I am an ecologist interested in how plant communities respond to global change. My research focuses primarily on the impact of global change on riparian and wetland communities, including mangrove forests and salt marsh habitats.

I am interested in the effects of a changing climate on habitat and species range expansions. I also study the effects of eutrophication on coastal wetland systems, how arid zone coastal plants utilize available water sources, and the storage of carbon within coastal ecosystems.

Research Projects

  Warming ecosystem temperatures in a Florida ecotone experiencing transition The existence of marsh habitats depend on their ability to build up soil in order to keep up with rising seas. The roots of plants found in marsh habitats “push up” the soil helping to increase the marsh elevation. However, with the oxygen provided by…

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A little about me…

  “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911, page 110. I am currently employed as a research fellow at the Australia Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Here, I work on a diverse…

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Research Publications

Here you can find a list of my publications. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss these papers, or if would like me to send you a copy of a publication. My Google Scholar page can be viewed here Sievers, M; Chowdhury, MR; Adame, MF; Bhadury, P; Bhargava, R; Buelow,…

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