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1341
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492

Overview

Peter B. Adler is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with 136 publications contributing to this area. Within this broad field, their research spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their work consist of Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, and Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience.

Peter B. Adler has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, notably Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly Stevens, Anita C. Risch, and Yann Hautier. These collaborations are reflected in a significant body of work published in various academic venues.

Their research has been published frequently in journals and platforms such as Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, and the Journal of Ecology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology", 2021, Ecology
  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The Net Effect of Functional Traits on Fitness", 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time", 2020, Ecology
  • "Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference", 2023, Nature Communications

In addition to journal articles, Peter B. Adler has authored books published by Rowman & Littlefield, including two editions of "Calming the Storm" released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

    Nathan J. B. Kraft;Peter B. Adler;Oscar Godoy;Emily C. James

  • A meta‐analysis of biotic resistance to exotic plant invasions

    Jonathan M. Levine;Peter B. Adler;Stephanie G. Yelenik

  • Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

    J. HilleRisLambers;P. B. Adler;W. S. Harpole;J. M. Levine

  • A niche for neutrality.

    Peter B. Adler;Janneke HilleRisLambers;Jonathan M. Levine

  • The effect of grazing on the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation

    Peter B. Adler;D. A. Raff;W. K. Lauenroth

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

    Jonathan M. Levine;Jordi Bascompte;Peter B. Adler;Stefano Allesina

  • Functional traits explain variation in plant life history strategies.

    Peter B. Adler;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Aldo Compagnoni;Joanna S. Hsu

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Trait‐based tests of coexistence mechanisms

    Peter B. Adler;Alex Fajardo;Andrew R. Kleinhesselink;Nathan J. B. Kraft

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

    Yusuke Onoda;Mark Westoby;Peter B. Adler;Amy M.F. Choong

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

    Elizabeth T. Borer;W. Stanley Harpole;Peter B. Adler;Eric M. Lind

  • Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities: Intraspecific Competition is Stronger Than Interspecific Competition

    Peter B. Adler;Danielle Smull;Karen H. Beard;Ryan T. Choi

  • A practical guide to selecting models for exploration, inference, and prediction in ecology.

    Andrew T. Tredennick;Giles Hooker;Stephen P. Ellner;Peter B. Adler

  • Climate variability has a stabilizing effect on the coexistence of prairie grasses

    Peter B. Adler;Janneke HilleRisLambers;Phaedon C. Kyriakidis;Qingfeng Guan

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington

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