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Peter H. Adler is affiliated with Clemson University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on ecology and insect science.

Their academic work spans several subfields including ecology, insect science, infectious diseases, behavioral and systematic ecology, and genetics. Research topics frequently covered include freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, parasitic diseases research and treatment, parasite biology and host interactions, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, as well as insect and arachnid ecology and behavior. Additional interests involve aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior and broader plant and animal studies.

Key publication venues for their work include Acta Tropica, Insects, Parasites & Vectors, Acta Biomaterialia, and Zootaxa. These venues highlight the scientist's contributions to entomology, tropical diseases, and ecological systematics.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated closely with Peter H. Adler include Konstantin G. Kornev, Zubaidah Ya'cob, Van Lun Low, charles e. beard, and Pairot Pramual, demonstrating a cooperative network across similar research domains.

  • Macroinvertebrate community responses to land use: a trait-based approach for freshwater biomonitoring in Mongolia (2020, Hydrobiologia)
  • Making remote sense of biodiversity: What grassland characteristics make spectral diversity a good proxy for taxonomic diversity? (2023, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Cryptic species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) at high elevations in the Oriental Region: The Simulium vernum species group in Thailand (2020, Acta Tropica)
  • Black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of the Aras River Basin: Species composition and floral visitation (2020, Acta Tropica)
  • Ecology of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in streams of northern and southern Thailand: Factors associated with larval and pupal distributions (2020, Acta Tropica)

Peter H. Adler has authored a book titled The Tender Cut, published by New York University Press eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The effect of grazing on the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation

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

  • The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America

    Peter H. Adler;Douglas C. Currie;D. Monty Wood;Daniel H. Janzen

  • Development of the Black Soldier Fly (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) in Relation to Temperature

    Jeffery K. Tomberlin;Peter H. Adler;Heidi M. Myers

  • Insect biodiversity : science and society

    Robert G. Foottit;Peter H. Adler

  • Life‐history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth‐defence trade‐off is the norm

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

  • Evolution, epidemiology, and population genetics of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae).

    Peter H. Adler;Robert A. Cheke;Rory J. Post

  • Seasonal colonization and decomposition of rat carrion in water and on land in an open field in South Carolina

    Jeffery K. Tomberlin;Peter H. Adler

  • Black flies in the boreal biome, key organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic environments: A review

    Björn Malmqvist;Peter H. Adler;Kalevi Kuusela;Richard W. Merritt

  • Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science

    Art Borkent;Brian V. Brown;Peter H. Adler;Dalton De Souza Amorim

  • Vertebrate host specificity of wild-caught blackflies revealed by mitochondrial DNA in blood

    Björn Malmqvist;Darius Strasevicius;Olof Hellgren;Peter H. Adler

  • Black Flies (Simuliidae)

    Peter H. Adler;John W. McCreadie

  • Insect Life: The Hidden Ecology of Black Flies: Sibling Species and Ecological Scale

    Peter H. Adler;John W. McCreadie

  • DNA barcoding of tropical black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Thailand.

    Pairot Pramual;Peter H. Adler

  • Species richness and spatial distribution of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in streams of Central Amazonia, Brazil

    Neusa Hamada;John W. McCreadie;Peter H. Adler

  • Why do male butterflies visit mud puddles

    Peter H. Adler;David L. Pearson

  • Diversity, distribution and larval habitats of North Swedish blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae)

    Björn Malmqvist;Yixin Zhang;Peter H. Adler

  • Global diversity of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) in freshwater

    Douglas C. Currie;Peter H. Adler

  • Butterfly proboscis: combining a drinking straw with a nanosponge facilitated diversification of feeding habits

    Daria Monaenkova;Matthew S. Lehnert;Taras Andrukh;Charles E. Beard

  • Ecological and Societal Services of Aquatic Diptera

    Peter H. Adler;Gregory W. Courtney

  • Hydrophobic–hydrophilic dichotomy of the butterfly proboscis

    Matthew S. Lehnert;Matthew S. Lehnert;Daria Monaenkova;Daria Monaenkova;Taras Andrukh;Charles E. Beard

  • Cryptic biodiversity and phylogenetic relationships revealed by DNA barcoding of Oriental black flies in the subgenus Gomphostilbia (Diptera: Simuliidae)

    Pairot PramualP. Pramual;Komgrit WongpakamK. Wongpakam;Komgrit WongpakamK. Wongpakam;Peter H. AdlerP.H. Adler;Peter H. AdlerP.H. Adler

  • Scale, time, space, and predictability: species distributions of preimaginal black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae).

    John W. McCreadie;Peter H. Adler

  • Cytosystematics of the Simulium tuberosum group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand.

    Ubon Tangkawanit;Chaliow Kuvangkadilok;Visut Baimai;Peter H. Adler

  • World blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae): a comprehensive revision of the taxonomic and geographical inventory [2010]

    Peter H Adler;Roger W Crosskey

Frequent Co-Authors

Hiroyuki Takaoka
Hiroyuki Takaoka University of Malaya
Neusa Hamada
Neusa Hamada National Institute of Amazonian Research
Björn Malmqvist
Björn Malmqvist Umeå University
Jeffery K. Tomberlin
Jeffery K. Tomberlin Texas A&M University
John O. Stireman
John O. Stireman Wright State University
Thomas Pape
Thomas Pape University of Copenhagen
David A. Grimaldi
David A. Grimaldi American Museum of Natural History
James J. Becnel
James J. Becnel Agricultural Research Service
Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal
Sergio Ibáñez-Bernal Instituto de Ecología
Yvonne A. L. Lim
Yvonne A. L. Lim University of Malaya

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