Mary Alldred is an associate professor of environmental science at the Center for
Earth and Environmental Science at SUNY Plattsburgh. She studies the influence of
organisms and ecological communities on the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems.
Her favorite ecosystem process is denitrification, a microbial process that removes
reactive nitrogen from the landscape, improving local water quality. Dr. Alldred’s
research has addressed the impacts of wetland management, including invasive-plant
removal and wetland restoration, on ecosystem services. Her students have worked on
a wide variety of projects in biogeochemistry, wetland ecology and management, data
analysis and visualization, and science communication.
Reinhardt, Emily, Kimberly J. Coleman, Mark Baran, Elizabeth E. Perry, and Mary Alldred. 2024. “Chasing informed decisions: A research note on the potential for Strava to
support rural recreation planning.” Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, in press.
Borrelli, Jonathan J., Matthew S. Schuler, William D. Hintz, Mary Alldred, Brian Mattes, Candace Schemerhorn, Erika Yates, Lawrence W. Eichler, Mark A. Lucius,
and Rick A. Relyea. 2023. “Putting the lake together: Integrating synthetic data and
field observations to build a better food web.” Food Webs 37: e00315.
Whaley, Thomas and Mary Alldred. 2023. “A meta-analysis reveals knowledge gaps in our understanding of the Spartina-Geukensia
mutualism.” Estuaries and Coasts 46: 1021-1034.
Abbas, Ahmed, Anais Cardenas, Darius LaFond, Brandon Guasaquillo, Leila Belgaid, Priscilla
Lee, Mary Alldred, and Chester B. Zarnoch. 2023. “Loss of salt marsh plants impacts ribbed mussel (Geukensia
demissa) size, density, and influences on sediment nitrogen cycling.” Wetlands Ecology and Management 31: 367–380.
Morris, Nathan, Mary Alldred, Chester Zarnoch, and S. Elizabeth Alter. 2023. “Estuarine sediment microbiomes from
a chronosequence of restored urban salt marshes.” Microbial Ecology 85: 916-930.
Alldred, Mary. 2021. “Review of Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands” by C. O. Koning
and S. M. Ashworth, illustrated by C. O. Koning. The Quarterly Review of Biology 96(1): 49-50.
Alldred, Mary, Jonathan J. Borrelli, Timothy Hoellein, Denise Bruesewitz, and Chester Zarnoch.
2020. “Marsh plants enhance coastal marsh resilience by changing sediment oxygen and
sulfide concentrations in an urban, eutrophic estuary.” Estuaries and Coasts 43: 801-813.
Zarnoch, Chester B., Noshin Hossain, Erika Fusco, Mary Alldred, Timothy J. Hoellein, and Sophia Perdikaris. 2020. “Size and density of upside-down
jellyfish, Cassiopea sp., and their impact on benthic fluxes in a Caribbean lagoon.”
Marine Environmental Research 154: 104845.
Zhu, Jennifer, Chester Zarnoch, J. Stephen Gosnell, Mary Alldred, and Timothy Hoellein. 2019. “Ribbed mussels Geukensia demissa enhance nitrogen-removal
services but not plant growth in restored eutrophic salt marshes.” Marine Ecology Progress Series 631: 67-80.
Alldred, Mary, Anne Liberti, and Stephen B. Baines. 2017. “Impacts of salinity and nutrients on
salt marsh stability.” Ecosphere 8(11): e02010.
Alldred, Mary and Stephen B. Baines. 2016. “Effects of wetland plants on denitrification rates:
a meta-analysis.” Ecological Applications 26 (3): 676-685.
Alldred, Mary, Stephen B. Baines, and Stuart Findlay. 2016. “Effects of invasive-plant management
on nitrogen-removal services in freshwater tidal marshes.” PLoS ONE 11 (2): e0149813.
