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Peter Henderson is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in several related subfields.

The main subfields of study in Henderson's work include Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry. Their research topics frequently cover Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

Henderson has contributed to a range of recent scientific papers published between 2021 and 2022. Selected recent papers include:

  • Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization (2021) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Meta-Fish-Lib: A generalised, dynamic DNA reference library pipeline for metabarcoding of fishes (2021) in Journal of Fish Biology
  • Life histories at stone age Zvejnieki based on stable isotope profiles of tooth dentine (2022) in Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
  • Temperature, carbon dioxide and methane (2022) in Research Square (Research Square)
  • Temperature, carbon dioxide and methane (2022) in Research Square (Research Square)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Henderson include Clive Hambler, Faye Moyes, Anne E. Magurran, Anne Chao, and Chun-Huo Chiu.

The scientist has published in several venues, most notably Research Square, as well as Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, and arXiv.

Best Publications

  • Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions.

    Anne E. Magurran;Peter A. Henderson

  • Regional climatic warming drives long–term community changes of British marine fish

    Martin J. Genner;David W. Sims;Victoria J. Wearmouth;Emily J. Southall

  • Size-selective overwintering mortality in the sand smelt, Atherina boyeri Risso, and its role in population regulation

    P. A. Henderson;R. H. A. Holmes;R. N. Bamber

  • Practical Methods in Ecology

    Peter A. Henderson

  • Towards the Systematic Reporting of the Energy and Carbon Footprints of Machine Learning

    Peter Henderson;Jieru Hu;Joshua Romoff;Emma Brunskill

  • Saltwater intrusion into the freshwater aquifer in the eastern shore of Virginia: a reconnaissance electrical resistivity survey

    Ali A Nowroozi;Stephen B Horrocks;Peter Henderson

  • Temporal turnover and the maintenance of diversity in ecological assemblages

    Anne E. Magurran;Peter A. Henderson

  • Is there a Fish Alarm Pheromone? A Wild Study and Critique

    A. E. Magurran;P. W. Irving;P. A. Henderson

  • Measuring temporal change in alpha diversity: A framework integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity and the iNEXT.3D standardization

    Anne Chao;Peter A. Henderson;Chun-Huo Chiu;Faye Moyes

  • A comparison of fish diversity and abundance between nutrient-rich and nutrient-poor lakes in the Upper Amazon

    Peter A. Henderson;William G. R. Crampton

  • Temporal β diversity—A macroecological perspective

    Anne E. Magurran;Maria Dornelas;Faye Moyes;Peter A. Henderson

  • Pre‐adaptive plasticity in atherinids and the estuarine seat of teleost evolution

    R. N. Bamber;P. A. Henderson

  • On the structure of the inshore fish community of England and Wales

    P. A. Henderson

  • Diversity is maintained by seasonal variation in species abundance

    Hideyasu Shimadzu;Hideyasu Shimadzu;Maria Dornelas;Maria Dornelas;Peter A Henderson;Anne E Magurran

  • On the leaf litter community of the Amazonian blackwater stream Tarumazinho

    P. A. Henderson;I. Walker

  • On the population biology of the common shrimp Crangon crangon (L.) (Crustacea: Caridea) in the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel

    P. A. Henderson;R. H. A. Holmes

  • On the reproductive biology of the sand smelt atherina boyeri risso pisces atherinidae and its evolutionary potential

    P. A. Henderson;R. N. Bamber

  • On the factors influencing juvenile flatfish abundance in the lower Severn Estuary, England

    P.A. Henderson;R.M.H. Seaby

  • Fish and macro-crustacean communities and their dynamics in the Severn Estuary

    P.A. Henderson;D.J. Bird

  • A 25-year study of climatic and density-dependent population regulation of common shrimp Crangon crangon (Crustacea: Caridea) in the Bristol Channel

    P.A. Henderson;R.M. Seaby;J.R. Somes

  • Discrete and continuous change in the fish community of the Bristol Channel in response to climate change

    P.A. Henderson

  • Major shifts in Amazon wildlife populations from recent intensification of floods and drought

    Richard Bodmer;Pedro Mayor;Miguel Antunez;Kimberlyn Chota

Frequent Co-Authors

Joelle Pineau
Joelle Pineau McGill University
Anne E. Magurran
Anne E. Magurran University of St Andrews
Emma Brunskill
Emma Brunskill Stanford University
Dan Jurafsky
Dan Jurafsky Stanford University
Gregory Dudek
Gregory Dudek McGill University
Stephen J. Hawkins
Stephen J. Hawkins University of Southampton
Maria Dornelas
Maria Dornelas University of St Andrews
Richard M. Warwick
Richard M. Warwick Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Mark Coates
Mark Coates McGill University
Adrian Weller
Adrian Weller University of Cambridge

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