Paul Anthony Keddy (born May 29, 1953 in London, Ontario) was a Canadian ecologist.
He was designated a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (formerly the Institute for Scientific Information).,[1] He received the National Wetlands Award for Science Research in 2007[2] from the Environmental Law Institute.
Although he worked on many types of plant communities and a broad array of ecological questions, the focus of his work was on the principles that organize plant communities, with particular emphasis upon wetlands.
His first book, Competition,[3][4] won both the George Lawson Medal[5] of the Canadian Botanical Association and the Henry Allan Gleason Award[6] of the New York Botanical Garden.
[14] In addition to scientific writing, Keddy prepared guides to the natural history of two regions of North America.