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Debra P. C. Peters

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
11865
World Ranking
3435
National Ranking
1211

Debra P. C. Peters publications per year

2000: 1 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 13 publications 2007: 8 publications 2008: 13 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 10 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 8 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 12 publications 2022: 6 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 1 publications
2000 2025

191 publications in total across all disciplines

Debra P. C. Peters 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 Debra P. C. Peters sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 173 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Debra P. C. Peters 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 Debra P. C. Peters sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Debra P. C. Peters is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and medicine.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Medicine

Their subfields of study further detail their expertise in:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Debra P. C. Peters' work covers several key topics within their research areas, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Ecosphere (16 publications)
  • Viruses (5 publications)
  • IT Professional (3 publications)
  • Climate (3 publications)
  • Ecology (2 publications)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Debra P. C. Peters include:

  • "Woody Plant Encroachment has a Larger Impact than Climate Change on Dryland Water Budgets," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Big data-model integration and AI for vector-borne disease prediction," 2020, Ecosphere
  • "Scaling Up Agricultural Research With Artificial Intelligence," 2020, IT Professional
  • "Modifying connectivity to promote state change reversal: the importance of geomorphic context and plant-soil feedbacks," 2020, Ecology
  • "Review of Vesicular Stomatitis in the United States with Focus on 2019 and 2020 Outbreaks," 2021, Pathogens

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Osvaldo E. Sala (13 publications)
  • Luis L. Rodrı́guez (13 publications)
  • Gregory S. Okin (12 publications)
  • Angela M. Pelzel-McCluskey (10 publications)
  • David D. Breshears (9 publications)

Debra P. C. Peters was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The changing landscape : ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients

    Nancy B. Grimm;David R. Foster;Peter M. Groffman;J. Morgan Grove

  • Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

    Osvaldo E. Sala;Laureano A. Gherardi;Lara Reichmann;Esteban Jobbágy

  • Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

    Alan K. Knapp;John M. Briggs;Scott L. Collins;Steven R. Archer

  • Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

    Guillermo E. Ponce Campos;M. Susan Moran;Alfredo Huete;Yongguang Zhang

  • Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events.

    Debra P. C. Peters;Roger A. Pielke;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Craig D. Allen

  • Ecological services to and from rangelands of the United States

    Kris M. Havstad;Debra P.C. Peters;Rhonda Skaggs;Joel Brown

  • Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification

    Gregory S. Okin;Anthony J. Parsons;John Wainwright;Jeffrey E. Herrick

  • Analysis of abrupt transitions in ecological systems

    Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Aaron M. Ellison;William R. Fraser;Kristen B. Gorman

  • Cross–Scale Interactions and Changing Pattern–Process Relationships: Consequences for System Dynamics

    Debra P. C. Peters;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Monica G. Turner

  • Disentangling Complex Landscapes: New Insights into Arid and Semiarid System Dynamics

    Debra P. C. Peters;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Jeffrey E. Herrick;Ed L. Fredrickson

  • Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

    Amy J. Symstad;Amy J. Symstad;F. Stuart Chapin;Diana H. Wall;Katherine L. Gross

  • Connectivity in dryland landscapes: shifting concepts of spatial interactions

    Gregory S. Okin;Mariano Moreno De Las Heras;Patricia M. Saco;Heather L. Throop

  • Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science

    Debra P.C. Peters;Peter M. Groffman;Knute J. Nadelhoffer;Nancy B. Grimm

  • Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous‐year tiller density

    Lara G. Reichmann;Lara G. Reichmann;Osvaldo E. Sala;Osvaldo E. Sala;Debra P. C. Peters

  • Directional climate change and potential reversal of desertification in arid and semiarid ecosystems

    Debra P. C. Peters;Debra P. C. Peters;Jin Yao;Osvaldo E. Sala;Osvaldo E. Sala;John P. Anderson

  • Accelerate synthesis in ecology and environmental sciences

    Stephen R. Carpenter;E. Virginia Armbrust;Peter W. Arzberger;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Tree Mortality in Gap Models: Application to Climate Change

    Robert E. Keane;Mike Austin;Christopher Field;Andreas Huth

  • Plant species dominance at a grassland–shrubland ecotone: an individual-based gap dynamics model of herbaceous and woody species

    Debra P.C Peters

  • Large area mapping of southwestern forest crown cover, canopy height, and biomass using the NASA Multiangle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer

    Mark Chopping;Gretchen G. Moisen;Lihong Su;Andrea Laliberte

  • Harnessing the power of big data: infusing the scientific method with machine learning to transform ecology

    Debra P. C. Peters;Kris M. Havstad;Judy Cushing;Craig Tweedie

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris M. Havstad
Kris M. Havstad Agricultural Research Service
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Osvaldo E. Sala
Osvaldo E. Sala Arizona State University
Gregory S. Okin
Gregory S. Okin University of California, Los Angeles
Albert Rango
Albert Rango United States Department of Agriculture
Mitchel P. McClaran
Mitchel P. McClaran University of Arizona
Peter M. Groffman
Peter M. Groffman City University of New York
Enrique R. Vivoni
Enrique R. Vivoni Arizona State University
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico

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