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39
Citations
10280
World Ranking
6260
National Ranking
2117

Overview

Peter M. Jørgensen is affiliated with the Missouri Botanical Garden in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology.

Their work covers various main topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Research Data Management Practices, and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Peter M. Jørgensen has contributed to multiple publications across several venues, including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Vegetation Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jørgensen include:

  • A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Amazon tree dominance across forest strata, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Mechanisms of community assembly explaining beta-diversity patterns across biogeographic regions, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Limited sampling hampers "big data" estimation of species richness in a tropical biodiversity hotspot, 2020, UNC Libraries

Frequent collaborators of Jørgensen include Brian J. Enquist, Naia Morueta-Holme, Robert K. Peet, Jens-Christian Svenning, and Cyrille Violle, each credited with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador

    Peter M. Jørgensen;Susana León-Yánez

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas.

    Carmen Ulloa Ulloa;Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez;Stephan Beck;Manuel J. Belgrano

  • Beta-diversity in temperate and tropical forests reflects dissimilar mechanisms of community assembly

    Jonathan A. Myers;Jonathan M. Chase;Iván Jiménez;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

    Christine Lamanna;Benjamin Blonder;Benjamin Blonder;Cyrille Violle;Nathan J.B. Kraft

  • Predicting species distributions from herbarium collections: does climate bias in collection sampling influence model outcomes?

    Bette A. Loiselle;Peter M. Jørgensen;Trisha Consiglio;Iván Jiménez

  • The BIEN R package: A tool to access the Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) database

    Brian S. Maitner;Brad Boyle;Nathan Casler;Rick Condit

  • Estimating the size of the world's threatened flora.

    Nigel C. A. Pitman;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

    Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Jason Pither;Andrew J. Kerkhoff

  • The commonness of rarity: Global and future distribution of rarity across land plants.

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Xiao Feng;Brad Boyle;Brian Maitner

  • Variation in above-ground forest biomass across broad climatic gradients

    James C. Stegen;James C. Stegen;Nathan G. Swenson;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Ethan P. White;Ethan P. White

  • Dry spots and wet spots in the Andean hotspot

    Timothy J. Killeen;Michael Douglas;Trisha Consiglio;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • The discovery of the Amazonian tree flora with an updated checklist of all known tree taxa

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Rens W. Vaessen;Rens W. Vaessen;Dairon Cárdenas-López;Daniel Sabatier

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Habitat area and climate stability determine geographical variation in plant species range sizes

    Naia Morueta-Holme;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Mcgill;Brad Boyle

  • Megafauna extinction, tree species range reduction, and carbon storage in Amazonian forests

    Christopher E. Doughty;Adam Wolf;Naia Morueta-Holme;Naia Morueta-Holme;Peter M. Jørgensen

  • Spatial patterns of above-ground structure, biomass and composition in a network of six Andean elevation transects

    Cécile A.J. Girardin;William Farfan-Rios;Karina Garcia;Keneth J. Feeley

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Robert K. Peet
Robert K. Peet University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
Timothy J. Killeen
Timothy J. Killeen Noel Kempff Mercado Natural History Museum

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