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D-Index
68
Citations
15116
World Ranking
1537
National Ranking
566

Peter J. Edmunds publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter J. Edmunds sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 288 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Peter J. Edmunds D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter J. Edmunds sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Peter J. Edmunds is affiliated with California State University, Northridge in the United States. Their research primarily explores environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a focus on marine ecosystems, coral biology, and oceanographic dynamics.

The core subfields of study in Peter J. Edmunds's work include ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and nature and landscape conservation. This range reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding marine environments and their responses to natural and anthropogenic pressures.

Research topics frequently addressed by Peter J. Edmunds encompass coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and coastal plant biology, marine and fisheries research, marine biology and ecology research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, cephalopods and marine biology, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Howard R. Lasker, R. C. Carpenter, Scott C. Burgess, Georgios Tsounis, and Steve S. Doo. These coauthors have contributed to a substantial portion of Edmunds's scientific output, highlighting a collaborative research environment.

Publication venues where Peter J. Edmunds has regularly contributed feature the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office, the Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community, Coral Reefs, Biology Letters, and Ecology.

Notable recent papers authored by Edmunds include:

  • Response diversity in corals: hidden differences in bleaching mortality among cryptic Pocillopora species (2021, Ecology)
  • Hidden heatwaves and severe coral bleaching linked to mesoscale eddies and thermocline dynamics (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Resilience of Octocoral Forests to Catastrophic Storms (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Coral recruitment: patterns and processes determining the dynamics of coral populations (2023, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • Science-based approach to using growth rate to assess coral performance and restoration outcomes (2020, Biology Letters)

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Ocean Acidification on Calcifying Organisms in Marine Ecosystems: An Organism to Ecosystem Perspective

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;James P. Barry;Peter J. Edmunds;Ruth D. Gates

  • Recovery of Diadema antillarum reduces macroalgal cover and increases abundance of juvenile corals on a Caribbean reef.

    Peter J. Edmunds;Robert C. Carpenter

  • Towards Automated Annotation of Benthic Survey Images: Variability of Human Experts and Operational Modes of Automation.

    Oscar Beijbom;Peter J. Edmunds;Chris Roelfsema;Jennifer Smith

  • Automated annotation of coral reef survey images

    Oscar Beijbom;Peter J. Edmunds;David I. Kline;B. Greg Mitchell

  • The Physiological Mechanisms of Acclimatization in Tropical Reef Corals

    Ruth D. Gates;Peter J. Edmunds

  • Increasing relative abundance of Porites astreoides on Caribbean reefs mediated by an overall decline in coral cover

    Daniel H. Green;Peter J. Edmunds;Robert C. Carpenter

  • Herbivory, Connectivity, and Ecosystem Resilience: Response of a Coral Reef to a Large-Scale Perturbation

    Thomas C. Adam;Russell J. Schmitt;Sally J. Holbrook;Andrew J. Brooks

  • Local and regional scale recovery of Diadema promotes recruitment of scleractinian corals

    Robert C. Carpenter;Peter J. Edmunds

  • Recurrent disturbances, recovery trajectories, and resilience of coral assemblages on a South Central Pacific reef

    Mehdi Adjeroud;F. Michonneau;F. Michonneau;P.J. Edmunds;Y. Chancerelle

  • An energy budget for Porites porites (Scleractinia)

    P. J. Edmunds;P. Spencer Davies

  • The demographics of a 15-year decline in cover of the caribbean reef coral Montastraea annularis

    Peter J. Edmunds;Robin Elahi

  • Extent and effect of Black Band Disease on a Caribbean reef

    Peter J. Edmunds;Peter J. Edmunds

  • Large-scale, long-term monitoring of Caribbean coral reefs: Simple, quick, inexpensive techniques

    Richard B. Aronson;P. J. Edmunds;W. F. Precht;D. W. Swanson

  • The biology of larvae from the reef coral Porites astreoides , and their response to temperature disturbances

    P. J. Edmunds;R. D. Gates;D. F. Gleason

  • The responses of eight coral reef calcifiers to increasing partial pressure of CO2 do not exhibit a tipping point

    Steeve Comeau;Peter J. Edmunds;N. B. Spindel;Robert C. Carpenter

  • Clonal variation for phenotypic plasticity in the coral Madracis mirabilis

    John F. Bruno;Peter J. Edmunds

  • SPATIAL, TEMPORAL AND TAXONOMIC VARIATION IN CORAL GROWTH-IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEMS

    Morgan S. Pratchett;Kristen D. Anderson;Mia O. Hoogenboom;Elizabeth Widman

  • Scleractinian corals as facilitators for other invertebrates on a Caribbean reef

    J. A. Idjadi;P. J. Edmunds

  • Zooplanktivory ameliorates the effects of ocean acidification on the reef coral Porites spp

    Peter J. Edmunds

  • Patterns in the distribution of juvenile corals and coral reef community structure in St. John, US Virgin Islands

    Peter J. Edmunds

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Carpenter
Robert C. Carpenter California State University, Northridge
Steeve Comeau
Steeve Comeau Villefranche Oceanographic Laboratory
Ruth D. Gates
Ruth D. Gates University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tung-Yung Fan
Tung-Yung Fan National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
Howard R. Lasker
Howard R. Lasker University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Hollie M. Putnam
Hollie M. Putnam University of Rhode Island
Lorenzo Bramanti
Lorenzo Bramanti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Kevin Gross
Kevin Gross North Carolina State University
Don R. Levitan
Don R. Levitan Florida State University
James J. Leichter
James J. Leichter University of California, San Diego

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