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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
102
Citations
49818
World Ranking
248
National Ranking
106

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Peter Kareiva is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science, and Economics and Econometrics.

Kareiva's work covers a range of topics including Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Ecology and biodiversity studies, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Ecosystem dynamics and resilience, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Recent publications by Kareiva include:

  • Deforestation in Colombian protected areas increased during post-conflict periods, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Anticipating drought-related food security changes, 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • Renewable energy targets may undermine their sustainability, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Evaluating the efficacy and equity of environmental stopgap measures, 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • Concern over hybridization risks should not preclude conservation interventions, 2021, Conservation Science and Practice

Frequent coauthors of Kareiva include:

  • Michelle Marvier
  • P. Krishna Krishnamurthy
  • Claire Hirashiki
  • Joshua B. Fisher
  • Richard Choularton

Kareiva has published regularly in several venues, notably:

  • Conservation Science and Practice
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Global Food Security

Throughout their career, Kareiva has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), 2012
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1989

Best Publications

  • Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

    Erik Nelson;Guillermo Mendoza;James Regetz;Stephen Polasky

  • Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

    Gretchen C Daily;Stephen Polasky;Joshua Goldstein;Peter M Kareiva

  • Impact: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Ecological Effects of Invaders

    I. M. Parker;D. Simberloff;K. Goodell;M. Wonham

  • Spatial ecology : the role of space in population dynamics and interspecific interactions

    David Tilman;Peter M. Kareiva

  • Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human Welfare

    Peter Kareiva;Sean Watts;Sean Watts;Sean Watts;Robert McDonald;Robert McDonald;Robert McDonald;Tim Boucher;Tim Boucher;Tim Boucher

  • The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation

    Robert I. Mcdonald;Peter Kareiva;Richard T.T. Forman

  • Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

    Anne D. Guerry;Anne D. Guerry;Stephen Polasky;Jane Lubchenco;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer

  • Swarms of predators exhibit "preytaxis" if individual predators use area-restricted search

    Peter Kareiva;Garrett Odell

  • Analyzing insect movement as a correlated random walk.

    P. M. Kareiva;N. Shigesada

  • Population dynamics in spatially complex environments: theory and data

    Peter Kareiva

  • Natural Capital: Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services

    Peter M. Kareiva;Heather Tallis;Taylor H. Ricketts;Gretchen C. Daily

  • An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development.

    Heather Tallis;Peter Kareiva;Michelle Marvier;Amy Chang

  • Coastal habitats shield people and property from sea-level rise and storms

    Katie K. Arkema;Greg Guannel;Gregory Verutes;Spencer A. Wood

  • Allee Dynamics and the Spread of Invading Organisms

    M.A. Lewis;P. Kareiva

  • Connecting landscape patterns to ecosystem and population processes

    Peter Kareiva;Uno Wennergren

  • What Is Conservation Science

    Peter Kareiva;Michelle Marvier

  • Notes from the field: Lessons learned from using ecosystem service approaches to inform real-world decisions

    Mary Ruckelshaus;Emily McKenzie;Heather Tallis;Anne Guerry

  • Habitat fragmentation and the stability of predator–prey interactions

    P. Kareiva

  • One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

    W.J. Sutherland;W.M. Adams;R.B. Aronson;R. Aveling

  • Spread of invading organisms

    D. A. Andow;P. M. Kareiva;Simon Asher Levin;Akira Okubo;Akira Okubo

  • Biotic interactions and global change

    Peter M. Kareiva;Joel G. Kingsolver;Raymond B. Huey

Frequent Co-Authors

Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Mary Ruckelshaus
Mary Ruckelshaus Stanford University
Heather Tallis
Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Taylor H. Ricketts
Taylor H. Ricketts University of Vermont
Joshua J. Lawler
Joshua J. Lawler University of Washington
Paul R. Armsworth
Paul R. Armsworth University of Tennessee at Knoxville
M. Rebecca Shaw
M. Rebecca Shaw World Wide Fund for Nature
Daniel F. Doak
Daniel F. Doak University of Colorado Boulder
Hugh P. Possingham
Hugh P. Possingham University of Queensland

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