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Peter B. Pearman is affiliated with the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to genetics, ecology, ecological modeling, and plant science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Botany, ecology, and taxonomy studies
  • Forest insect ecology and management
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Identification and quantification in food

Peter B. Pearman has been involved in several recent publications, including:

  • Monitoring of species' genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Genotyping-by-sequencing resolves relationships in Polygonaceae tribe Eriogoneae, 2021, Taxon

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Peter B. Pearman are:

  • Olivier Broennimann
  • Elena Bužan
  • José A. Godoy
  • Peter Klinga
  • Alexander Kopatz

The venues where this scientist has frequently published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Evolutionary Applications

Best Publications

  • Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data

    Olivier Broennimann;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Peter B. Pearman;Blaise Petitpierre

  • Niche dynamics in space and time

    Peter B. Pearman;Antoine Guisan;Olivier Broennimann;Christophe F. Randin

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Climate change and plant distribution: local models predict high-elevation persistence

    Christophe F. Randin;Robin Engler;Signe Normand;Massimiliano Zappa

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • Climatic extremes improve predictions of spatial patterns of tree species

    Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Nigel G. Yoccoz;Thomas C. Edwards;Eliane S. Meier

  • New trends in species distribution modelling

    Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thomas C. Edwards;Catherine H. Graham;Peter B. Pearman

  • The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

    Lawrence N. Hudson;Tim Newbold;Tim Newbold;Sara Contu;Samantha L.L. Hill;Samantha L.L. Hill

  • Biotic and abiotic variables show little redundancy in explaining tree species distributions

    Eliane S. Meier;Felix Kienast;Peter B. Pearman;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • THE SCALE OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE: HABITAT VARIATION AND AVIAN GUILDS IN TROPICAL FOREST UNDERSTORY

    Peter B. Pearman

  • Within-taxon niche structure: niche conservatism, divergence and predicted effects of climate change

    Peter B. Pearman;Manuela D'Amen;Catherine H. Graham;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Prediction of plant species distributions across six millennia.

    Peter B. Pearman;Christophe F. Randin;Olivier Broennimann;Pascal Vittoz

  • Correlates of Amphibian Diversity in an Altered Landscape of Amazonian Ecuador

    Peter B. Pearman

  • Building the niche through time: using 13,000 years of data to predict the effects of climate change on three tree species in Europe

    L. Maiorano;R. Cheddadi;N. E. Zimmermann;L. Pellissier

  • Susceptibility of Italian agile frog populations to an emerging strain of Ranavirus parallels population genetic diversity

    Peter B. Pearman;Peter B. Pearman;Trenton W. J. Garner

  • Common species determine richness patterns in biodiversity indicator taxa

    Peter B. Pearman;Darius Weber

  • Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Abundance of Two Species of Leptodactylid Frogs in an Andean Montane Forest

    David M. Marsh;Peter B. Pearman

  • Assessing rapid evolution in a changing environment

    Nicolas Salamin;Nicolas Salamin;Rafael O. Wüest;Sébastien Lavergne;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Genetic diversity across a vertebrate species’ range: a test of the central–peripheral hypothesis

    Trenton W. J. Garner;Peter B. Pearman;Sonia Angelone

  • Mutualism with sea anemones triggered the adaptive radiation of clownfishes

    Glenn Litsios;Glenn Litsios;Carrie A Sims;Rafael O Wüest;Peter B Pearman

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Christian Lexer
Christian Lexer University of Vienna
Christophe F. Randin
Christophe F. Randin University of Lausanne
Tom M. Fayle
Tom M. Fayle Queen Mary University of London
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Signe Normand
Signe Normand Aarhus University

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