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45
Citations
7485
World Ranking
4875
National Ranking
1678

Overview

Peter J. Weisberg is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States and contributes extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

Their work covers a variety of main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Landscape Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Landscape and Urban Planning

Notable recent publications by Weisberg include:

  • Phenology-based classification of invasive annual grasses to the species level, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment

Other relevant recent papers in related collaborative contexts include:

  • Contrasting land use legacy effects on forest landscape dynamics in the Italian Alps and the Apennines, 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • Rapidly Accelerating Deforestation in Cambodia's Mekong River Basin: A Comparative Analysis of Spatial Patterns and Drivers, 2020, Water
  • The North American tree-ring fire-scar network, 2022, Ecosphere
  • Global change in the European Alps: A century of post-abandonment natural reforestation at the landscape scale, 2023, Landscape and Urban Planning

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weisberg include:

  • Thomas E. Dilts
  • Alexandra K. Urza
  • Matteo Garbarino
  • Kevin T. Shoemaker
  • Franco Biondi

Best Publications

  • Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States

    William H. Romme;Craig D. Allen;John D. Bailey;William L. Baker

  • LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT USING HISTORICAL FIRE REGIMES: BLUE RIVER, OREGON

    John H. Cissel;Frederick J. Swanson;Peter J. Weisberg

  • Tree diseases and landscape processes: the challenge of landscape pathology

    Ottmar Holdenrieder;Marco Pautasso;Peter J. Weisberg;David Lonsdale

  • Spatial patterns and drivers of fire occurrence and its future trend under climate change in a boreal forest of Northeast China

    Zhihua Liu;Jian Yang;Yu Chang;Peter J. Weisberg

  • An update on the natural sources and sinks of atmospheric mercury

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Steven E. Lindberg;Peter J. Weisberg

  • Landsat remote sensing approaches for monitoring long-term tree cover dynamics in semi-arid woodlands: Comparison of vegetation indices and spectral mixture analysis

    Jian Yang;Jian Yang;Peter J. Weisberg;Nathan A. Bristow

  • The Value of Native Plants and Local Production in an Era of Global Agriculture.

    Oren Shelef;Peter J. Weisberg;Frederick D. Provenza

  • Forest dynamics and ungulate herbivory: from leaf to landscape

    Peter J. Weisberg;Harald Bugmann

  • Spatial Patterns of Pinyon–Juniper Woodland Expansion in Central Nevada

    Peter J. Weisberg;Emanuele Lingua;Rekha B. Pillai

  • Air–soil exchange of mercury from background soils in the United States

    J.A. Ericksen;M.S. Gustin;M. Xin;P.J. Weisberg

  • Regional synchroneity in fire regimes of western Oregon and Washington, USA

    Peter J Weisberg;Frederick J Swanson

  • Density-dependent tree mortality in pinyon-juniper woodlands

    David L. Greenwood;Peter J. Weisberg

  • Abiotic and biotic influences on Bromus tectorum invasion and Artemisia tridentata recovery after fire

    Lea Condon;Peter J. Weisberg;Jeanne C. Chambers

  • Post-fire tree recruitment of a boreal larch forest in Northeast China

    Wenhua Cai;Jian Yang;Zhihua Liu;Yuanman Hu

  • Using aerial photography and GIS to map the forest-tundra ecotone in Rocky Mountain national park, Colorado, for global change research

    W. L. Baker;J. J. Honaker;P. J. Weisberg

  • Multiscale connectivity and graph theory highlight critical areas for conservation under climate change.

    Thomas E. Dilts;Peter J. Weisberg;Philip Leitner;Marjorie D. Matocq

  • Global macroecology of bird assemblages in urbanized and semi-natural ecosystems.

    Marco Pautasso;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;Philippe Clergeau;Victor R. Cueto

  • Carbon dynamics in the future forest: the importance of long-term successional legacy and climate-fire interactions.

    E. Louise Loudermilk;Robert M. Scheller;Peter J. Weisberg;Jian Yang

  • Evidence for Nonstomatal Uptake of Hg by Aspen and Translocation of Hg from Foliage to Tree Rings in Austrian Pine.

    Jennifer Arnold;Mae Sexauer Gustin;Peter J Weisberg

  • Spatial variation in tree regeneration in the forest-tundra ecotone, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

    Peter J. Weisberg;William L. Baker

  • Landscape Analysis of the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado*

    William L. Baker;Peter J. Weisberg

  • Influence of climate and environment on post-fire recovery of mountain big sagebrush

    Zachary J. Nelson;Peter J. Weisberg;Stanley G. Kitchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne C. Chambers
Jeanne C. Chambers US Forest Service
Robert M. Scheller
Robert M. Scheller North Carolina State University
William L. Baker
William L. Baker University of Wyoming
Mae Sexauer Gustin
Mae Sexauer Gustin University of Nevada Reno
Richard F. Miller
Richard F. Miller Oregon State University
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
William H. Romme
William H. Romme Colorado State University
Todd C. Esque
Todd C. Esque United States Geological Survey
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Peter M. Brown
Peter M. Brown Colorado State University

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