2026 Peter A. Abrams: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	91	453	429	32	29	219	27066

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Peter A. Abrams is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans several fields primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Medicine, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The subfields of their work include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Infectious Diseases, and Aquatic Science.

Their publications cover a range of topics, with particular attention to:

Plant and animal studies
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
Cephalopods and Marine Biology
Aquatic life and conservation
Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

Peter A. Abrams has contributed to several scientific papers over recent years. Notable papers include:

"Food web functional responses," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
"Density Dependence, Senescence, and Williams' Hypothesis," 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
"Further evidence that Antarctic toothfish are important to Weddell seals," 2020, Antarctic Science
"Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild," 2024, Science
"Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Testing Using Saliva or Nasopharyngeal Swabs to Compare the Performance of Weekly COVID-19 Screening to Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 Signals," 2022, ACS ES&T Water

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Abrams include:

David G. Ainley
Jennifer Jacquet
Becca Franks
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Walter Sánchez-Suárez

Their work has been published in a variety of scientific venues with multiple publications, among them:

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Science
Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Antarctic Science
ACS ES&T Water

Peter A. Abrams has been recognized with several distinctions, including:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2005), Academy of Science
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2002)

Best Publications

The Evolution of Predator-Prey Interactions: Theory and Evidence

Peter A. Abrams

1004
Citations
The nature of predation: prey dependent, ratio dependent or neither?

Peter A. Abrams;Lev R. Ginzburg

948
Citations
The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis

Jonathan M. Chase;Peter A. Abrams;James P. Grover;Sebastian Diehl

844
Citations
The theory of limiting similarity

Peter Abrams

746
Citations
Eco‐evolutionary dynamics of communities and ecosystems

G. F. Fussmann;M. Loreau;P. A. Abrams

644
Citations
Monotonic or unimodal diversity-productivity gradients : what does competition theory predict?

Peter A. Abrams

623
Citations
REVISITING THE CLASSICS: CONSIDERING NONCONSUMPTIVE EFFECTS IN TEXTBOOK EXAMPLES OF PREDATOR–PREY INTERACTIONS

Barbara L. Peckarsky;Peter A. Abrams;Daniel I. Bolnick;Lawrence M. Dill

609
Citations
IMPLICATIONS OF DYNAMICALLY VARIABLE TRAITS FOR IDENTIFYING, CLASSIFYING, AND MEASURING DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS IN ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES

Peter A. Abrams

599
Citations
SOME COMMENTS ON MEASURING NICHE OVERLAP

Peter Abrams

572
Citations
The Effect of Flexible Growth Rates on Optimal Sizes and Development Times in a Seasonal Environment

Peter A. Abrams;Olof Leimar;Soren Nylin;Christer Wiklund

506
Citations
THE EFFECTS OF PREDATION ON THE AGE AND SIZE OF MATURITY OF PREY.

Peter A. Abrams;Locke Rowe

495
Citations
The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs

Peter A. Abrams;Bruce A. Menge;Gary G. Mittelbach;David A. Spiller

488
Citations
Interpreting the von Bertalanffy model of somatic growth in fishes: the cost of reproduction.

N. P. Lester;B. J. Shuter;B. J. Shuter;P. A. Abrams

463
Citations
Foraging Time Optimization and Interactions in Food Webs

Peter A. Abrams

452
Citations
Evolutionarily unstable fitness maxima and stable fitness minima of continuous traits

Peter A. Abrams;Hiroyuki Matsuda;Yasushi Harada

442
Citations
Disruptive selection and then what

Claus Rueffler;Claus Rueffler;Tom J.M. Van Dooren;Olof Leimar;Peter A. Abrams

426
Citations
FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES OF OPTIMAL FORAGERS

Peter A. Abrams

393
Citations
DOES INCREASED MORTALITY FAVOR THE EVOLUTION OF MORE RAPID SENESCENCE

Peter A. Abrams

372
Citations
Positive Indirect Effects Between Prey Species that Share Predators

Peter A. Abrams;Peter A. Abrams;Hiroyuki Matsuda

372
Citations
When does greater mortality increase population size? The long history and diverse mechanisms underlying the hydra effect.

Peter A. Abrams

358
Citations
Effect of Increased Productivity on the Abundances of Trophic Levels

Peter A. Abrams

336
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Shuter University of Toronto

Robert D. Holt University of Florida

Christopher Quince University of Warwick

David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates

John M. Fryxell University of Guelph

Paul K. Dayton Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tadeusz J. Kawecki University of Lausanne

Olof Leimar Stockholm University

Jofre Carnicer University of Barcelona

Daniel T. Haydon University of Glasgow

External Links

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