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D-Index
80
Citations
23725
World Ranking
830
National Ranking
305

David L. Peterson publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Peterson sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 306 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

David L. Peterson D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Peterson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

David L. Peterson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications addressing Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Atmospheric Science.

The research topics extensively covered by Peterson include Fire effects on ecosystems, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Forest ecology and management, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Recent publications by David L. Peterson reflect a diverse range of environmental and ecological themes. These include:

  • Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA (2020, Fire Ecology)
  • Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States (2020, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association)
  • Combining US and Canadian forest inventories to assess habitat suitability and migration potential of 25 tree species under climate change (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • Mapping Forest Composition with Landsat Time Series: An Evaluation of Seasonal Composites and Harmonic Regression (2020, Remote Sensing)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peterson include Anantha Prasad, Stephen N. Matthews, Louis R. Iverson, John Pedlar, and Daniel W. McKenney. These collaborations indicate a network focused on forestry, ecology, and climate-related research.

David L. Peterson has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Forest Service Research Data Archive
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces, 1916–2003

    Jeremy S. Littell;Jeremy S. Littell;Donald McKenzie;Donald McKenzie;David L. Peterson;Anthony L. Westerling

  • Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

    Sarah R. Weiskopf;Madeleine A. Rubenstein;Lisa G. Crozier;Sarah Gaichas

  • Climatic Change, Wildfire, and Conservation

    Donald McKENZIE;Ze'ev Gedalof;David L. Peterson;Philip Mote

  • Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA

    Jessica E. Halofsky;David L. Peterson;Brian J. Harvey

  • Mapping regional forest evapotranspiration and photosynthesis by coupling satellite data with ecosystem simulation

    Steven W. Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;David L. Peterson;Larry E. Band

  • A review of the relationships between drought and forest fire in the United States

    Jeremy S. Littell;David L. Peterson;Karin L. Riley;Yongquiang Liu

  • Preparing for Climatic Change: The Water, Salmon, and Forests of the Pacific Northwest

    Philip W. Mote;Edward A. Parson;Alan F. Hamlet;William S. Keeton

  • Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

    Rupert Seidl;Thomas A. Spies;David L. Peterson;Scott L. Stephens

  • Ecological Scale: Theory and Applications

    David L. Peterson;V. Thomas Parker

  • Wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on air quality in the United States.

    Daniel A. Jaffe;Susan M. O’Neill;Narasimhan K. Larkin;Amara L. Holder

  • Remote sensing of canopy chemistry and nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems

    Carol A. Wessman;Carol A. Wessman;John D. Aber;John D. Aber;David L. Peterson;Jerry M. Melillo

  • Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications

    Virginia R. Burkett;Douglas A. Wilcox;Robert Stottlemyer;Wylie Barrow

  • Remote sensing of forest canopy and leaf biochemical contents

    David L. Peterson;John D. Aber;Pamela A. Matson;Don H. Card

  • Prediction of leaf chemistry by the use of visible and near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

    Don H. Card;David L. Peterson;Pamela A. Matson;John D. Aber

  • MOUNTAIN HEMLOCK GROWTH RESPONDS TO CLIMATIC VARIABILITY AT ANNUAL AND DECADAL TIME SCALES

    David W. Peterson;David L. Peterson

  • Forest responses to climate change in the northwestern United States: Ecophysiological foundations for adaptive management

    Daniel J. Chmura;Paul D. Anderson;Glenn T. Howe;Constance A. Harrington

  • ATMOSPHERIC, CLIMATIC, AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON EXTREME WILDFIRE YEARS IN THE NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES

    Ze'ev Gedalof;David L. Peterson;Nathan J. Mantua

  • Modeling postfire conifer mortality for long-range planning

    David L. Peterson;Kevin C. Ryan

  • Increased water deficit decreases Douglas fir growth throughout western US forests

    Christina M Restaino;David L. Peterson;Jeremy S. Littell

  • DOUGLAS-FIR GROWTH IN MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS. WATER LIMITS TREE GROWTH FROM STAND TO REGION

    Jeremy S. Littell;David L. Peterson;Michael Tjoelker

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan J. Prichard
Susan J. Prichard University of Washington
James M. Vose
James M. Vose North Carolina State University
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Constance I. Millar
Constance I. Millar US Forest Service
Nathan J. Mantua
Nathan J. Mantua National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert E. Keane
Robert E. Keane US Forest Service
Jeffrey A. Hicke
Jeffrey A. Hicke University of Idaho
Christopher W. Swanston
Christopher W. Swanston US Forest Service
Ronald P. Neilson
Ronald P. Neilson Oregon State University
Carol A. Wessman
Carol A. Wessman University of Colorado Boulder

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