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Peter M. Kotanen

Peter M. Kotanen

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Ecology and Evolution

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33
Citations
6037
World Ranking
7782
National Ranking
475

Overview

Peter M. Kotanen is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, reflecting a broad engagement with plant and ecological studies.

The subfields in which they have contributed include:

  • Plant Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Atmospheric Science

Their work covers multiple main topics related to ecology and plant biology, such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Peter M. Kotanen's publication record includes contributions in a variety of journals. Frequent venues for their publications are:

  • Ecology
  • Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Botany
  • Biological Invasions
  • Arctic Science

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Kotanen include:

  • <scp>GUBIC</scp>: The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants, 2025, published in Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Habitat change at a multi-species goose breeding area on Southampton Island, Nunavut, Canada, 1979-2010, 2020, published in Arctic Science
  • Potential role of the seed bank in spreading invasive plants in a tundra-edge environment, 2023, published in Botany
  • The influence of shelter on abundance of the invasive dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, at its northern range limit, 2024, published in Biological Invasions
  • Habitats Within the Plant Root Differ in Bacterial Network Topology and Taxonomic Assortativity, 2022, published in Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kathryn L. Cottingham
  • Nicholas J. Gotelli
  • Joseph B. Yavitt
  • William K. Michener
  • Karen Abbott

Best Publications

  • Assembly and ecological function of the root microbiome across angiosperm plant species.

    Connor R. Fitzpatrick;Julia Copeland;Pauline W. Wang;David S. Guttman

  • Terrestrial plant tolerance to herbivory

    J.P. Rosenthal;P.M. Kotanen

  • ENEMY RELEASE? AN EXPERIMENT WITH CONGENERIC PLANT PAIRS AND DIVERSE ABOVE- AND BELOWGROUND ENEMIES

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Peter M. Kotanen;Charles E. Mitchell;Alison G. Power

  • Herbivores and the success of exotic plants: a phylogenetically controlled experiment

    Anurag A. Agrawal;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Destruction of wetland habitats by lesser snow geese: a keystone species on the west coast of Hudson Bay.

    Richard H. Kerbes;Peter M. Kotanen;Robert L. Jefferies

  • Indirect effects of parasites in invasions

    Alison M. Dunn;Mark E. Torchin;Melanie J. Hatcher;Melanie J. Hatcher;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Responses of vegetation to a changing regime of disturbance: effects of feral pigs in a Californian coastal prairie

    Peter M. Kotanen

  • Effects of fungal pathogens on seeds of native and exotic plants: a test using congeneric pairs

    C.S. Blaney;P.M. Kotanen

  • Sources of Controversy Surrounding Latitudinal Patterns in Herbivory and Defense.

    Daniel N. Anstett;Krystal A. Nunes;Carina Baskett;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Effects of experimental soil disturbance on revegetation by natives and exotics in coastal Californian meadows.

    Peter M. Kotanen

  • The influence of soil moisture on losses of buried seeds to fungi

    Michelle Schafer;Peter M Kotanen

  • Enemy release but no evolutionary loss of defence in a plant invasion: an inter-continental reciprocal transplant experiment

    Benjamin J. Genton;Peter M. Kotanen;Pierre-Olivier Cheptou;Cindy Adolphe

  • Evidence that phylogenetically novel non-indigenous plants experience less herbivory

    Steven Burton Hill;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Impacts of naturally-occurring soil fungi on seeds of meadow plants

    Michelle Schafer;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Effects of gap area and shape on recolonization by grassland plants with differing reproductive strategies

    Peter M. Kotanen

  • Local escape of an invasive plant, common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.), from above-ground and below-ground enemies in its native area

    James MacKay;Peter M. Kotanen

  • LOGS AS REFUGES FROM FUNGAL PATHOGENS FOR SEEDS OF EASTERN HEMLOCK (TSUGA CANADENSIS)

    D.L. O'Hanlon-Manners;Peter M. Kotanen

  • Long-term destruction of sub-arctic wetland vegetation by lesser snow geese

    Peter M. Kotanen;Robert L. Jefferies

  • Post-dispersal losses to seed predators: an experimental comparison of native and exotic old field plants

    C S Blaney;P M Kotanen

  • Habitats of native and exotic plants in Colorado shortgrass steppe: a comparative approach

    Peter M. Kotanen;Joy Bergelson;Donald L. Hazlett

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Jefferies
Robert L. Jefferies University of Toronto
Marc T. J. Johnson
Marc T. J. Johnson University of Toronto
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University
Melanie J. Hatcher
Melanie J. Hatcher University of Leeds
James E. Byers
James E. Byers University of Georgia
Mark E. Torchin
Mark E. Torchin Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Ruth A. Hufbauer
Ruth A. Hufbauer Colorado State University
Joy Bergelson
Joy Bergelson University of Chicago
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou
Pierre-Olivier Cheptou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
David S. Guttman
David S. Guttman University of Toronto

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