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D-Index
40
Citations
5530
World Ranking
6173
National Ranking
2095

M. Zachariah Peery 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 M. Zachariah Peery sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 143 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

M. Zachariah Peery 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 M. Zachariah Peery sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

M. Zachariah Peery is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans across environmental science with a strong focus on ecology and its related subfields. Their work encompasses areas such as ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and the broader field of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their scholarly output involves studies on a variety of ecological and environmental topics. Notable main topics covered include species distribution and climate change, fire effects on ecosystems, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, animal vocal communication and behavior, and animal ecology and behavior studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Ornithological Applications, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Forest Ecology and Management, Landscape Ecology, and Biological Conservation.

The scientist has contributed to several papers such as:

  • Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible (2020) in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Habitat selection by spotted owls after a megafire reflects their adaptation to historical frequent-fire regimes (2020) in Landscape Ecology
  • Survey coverage, recording duration and community composition affect observed species richness in passive acoustic surveys (2021) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change (2021) in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • California spotted owl habitat selection in a fire-managed landscape suggests conservation benefit of restoring historical fire regimes (2020) in Forest Ecology and Management

M. Zachariah Peery has collaborated frequently with other researchers including John J. Keane, Connor M. Wood, H. Anu Kramer, Gavin M. Jones, and Sheila A. Whitmore. These collaborations have contributed to the breadth of their research and its impact within ecological and environmental science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Reliability of genetic bottleneck tests for detecting recent population declines

    M. Zachariah Peery;Rebecca Kirby;Brendan N. Reid;Ricka Stoelting

  • Megafires: an emerging threat to old-forest species

    Gavin M Jones;RJ Gutiérrez;Douglas J Tempel;Sheila A Whitmore

  • Applying the Declining Population Paradigm: Diagnosing Causes of Poor Reproduction in the Marbled Murrelet

    M. Zachariah Peery;Steven R. Beissinger;Scott H. Newman;Esther B. Burkett

  • An improved method for utilizing high-throughput amplicon sequencing to determine the diets of insectivorous animals.

    Michelle A. Jusino;Michelle A. Jusino;Mark T. Banik;Jonathan M. Palmer;Amy K. Wray

  • Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible

    Scott L. Stephens;A. Le Roy Westerling;Matthew D. Hurteau;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Ocean climate and prey availability affect the trophic level and reproductive success of the marbled murrelet, an endangered seabird

    Benjamin H. Becker;M. Zachariah Peery;Steven R. Beissinger

  • COMBINING DEMOGRAPHIC AND COUNT‐BASED APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY SOURCE–SINK DYNAMICS OF A THREATENED SEABIRD

    M. Zachariah Peery;Benjamin H. Becker;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Declining old-forest species as a legacy of large trees lost

    Gavin M. Jones;John J. Keane;R. J. Gutiérrez;R. J. Gutiérrez;M. Zachariah Peery

  • A syndrome of mutualism reinforces the lifestyle of a sloth.

    Jonathan N. Pauli;Jorge E. Mendoza;Shawn A. Steffan;Cayelan C. Carey;Cayelan C. Carey

  • Effects of forest management on California Spotted Owls: implications for reducing wildfire risk in fire-prone forests

    Douglas J. Tempel;Ralph J Gutierrez;Sheila A. Whitmore;Matthew J. Reetz

  • Detecting small changes in populations at landscape scales: a bioacoustic site-occupancy framework

    Connor M. Wood;Viorel D. Popescu;Viorel D. Popescu;Holger Klinck;John J. Keane

  • Detecting populations in the 'ambiguous' zone: Kinship-based estimation of population structure at low genetic divergence

    Per J. Palsbøll;M. Zachariah Peery;Martine Bérubé

  • Demography of two Mexican spotted owl populations

    Mark E. Seamans;R. J. Gutiérrez;Christopher A. May;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Forest restoration limits megafires and supports species conservation under climate change

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  • Habitat selection by spotted owls after a megafire reflects their adaptation to historical frequent-fire regimes

    Gavin M. Jones;Gavin M. Jones;H. Anu Kramer;Sheila A. Whitmore;William J. Berigan

  • Characterizing source-sink dynamics with genetic parentage assignments.

    M. Zachariah Peery;M. Zachariah Peery;Steven R. Beissinger;Roger F. House;Martine Bérubé;Martine Bérubé

  • An experimental translocation identifies habitat features that buffer camouflage mismatch in snowshoe hares

    Evan C. Wilson;Amy A. Shipley;Benjamin Zuckerberg;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Evaluating short‐ and long‐term impacts of fuels treatments and simulated wildfire on an old‐forest species

    Douglas J. Tempel;R. J. Gutiérrez;John J. Battles;Danny L. Fry

  • Inferring recent historic abundance from current genetic diversity

    Per J. Palsbøll;Per J. Palsbøll;M. Zachariah Peery;Morten T. Olsen;Steven R. Beissinger

  • Finding the right coverage: the impact of coverage and sequence quality on single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping error rates.

    Emily D. Fountain;Jonathan N. Pauli;Brendan N. Reid;Per J. Palsbøll

  • Factors Affecting Interspecies Variation in Home-range Size of Raptors

    M. Zachariah Peery

  • Reconstructing the historic demography of an endangered seabird.

    Steven R. Beissinger;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Spotted owl demography in the central Sierra Nevada

    Mark E. Seamans;R. J. Gutierrez;Christine A. Moen;M. Zachariah Peery

  • Genetic analyses of historic and modern marbled murrelets suggest decoupling of migration and gene flow after habitat fragmentation

    M. Zachariah Peery;M. Zachariah Peery;Laurie A. Hall;Laurie A. Hall;Anna Sellas;Steven R. Beissinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph J. Gutierrez
Ralph J. Gutierrez University of Minnesota
Jonathan N. Pauli
Jonathan N. Pauli University of Wisconsin–Madison
Per J. Palsbøll
Per J. Palsbøll University of Groningen
Steven R. Beissinger
Steven R. Beissinger University of California, Berkeley
Martine Bérubé
Martine Bérubé University of Groningen
Scott H. Newman
Scott H. Newman Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Malcolm P. North
Malcolm P. North US Forest Service
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Alan B. Franklin
Alan B. Franklin United States Department of Agriculture
Gary C. White
Gary C. White Colorado State University

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