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Peter S. Petraitis is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on marine and ecological subjects.

Their work involves significant contributions to the subfields of Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

Key topics of research addressed by Peter S. Petraitis include marine and coastal plant biology, geology and paleoclimatology research, marine biology and ecology research, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter S. Petraitis are:

  • "Declines over the last two decades of five intertidal invertebrate species in the western North Atlantic" (2020, Communications Biology)
  • "Experimental evidence for resilience of rockweeds on rocky shores in the Gulf of Maine, USA" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Development of DNA Barcoding for the Rapid Assessment of Biodiversity: 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science presented to Paul D. N. Hebert, Ph.D., FRSC, O.C." (2024, Journal of the Franklin Institute)

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Steve Dudgeon, Steven R. Dudgeon, and Jonathan A. D. Fisher.

Peter S. Petraitis's work has appeared in a variety of journals, notably Communications Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, reflecting a cross-disciplinary engagement with ecological and environmental science research.

Best Publications

  • The Maintenance of Species Diversity by Disturbance

    Peter S. Petraitis;Roger Earl Latham;Richard A. Niesenbaum

  • Inferring multiple causality : the limitations of path analysis

    P. S. Petraitis;A. E. Dunham;P. H. Niewiarowski

  • The importance of scale in testing the origins of alternative community states

    Peter S. Petraitis;Roger Earl Latham

  • Likelihood Measures of Niche Breadth and Overlap

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • Detection of alternative stable states in marine communities

    Peter S. Petraitis;Steve R. Dudgeon

  • Multiple Stable States in Natural Ecosystems

    Peter Petraitis

  • Plant response to climate change varies with topography, interactions with neighbors, and ecotype.

    Pierre Liancourt;Laura A. Spence;Daniel S. Song;Ariuntsetseg Lkhagva

  • SCALE-DEPENDENT RECRUITMENT AND DIVERGENCE OF INTERTIDAL COMMUNITIES

    Steven R. Dudgeon;Peter Steven Petraitis

  • Experimental evidence for the origin of alternative communities on rocky intertidal shores

    Peter Steven Petraitis;Steven R. Dudgeon

  • The Role of Growth in Maintaining Spatial Dominance by Mussels (Mytilus Edulis)

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • Direct and indirect effects of predation, herbivory and surface rugosity on mussel recruitment.

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • Experimental confirmation of multiple community states in a marine ecosystem

    Peter Steven Petraitis;Peter Steven Petraitis;Elizabeth T. Methratta;Erika C. Rhile;Nicholas A. Vidargas

  • Factors organizing rocky intertidal communities of New England: Herbivory and predation in sheltered bays

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • GRAZING PATTERNS OF THE PERIWINKLE AND THEIR EFFECT ON SESSILE INTERTIDAL ORGANISMS

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists

    Peter S Petraitis

  • Field estimates of growth and mortality of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

    Michael P. Russell;Thomas A. Ebert;Peter S. Petraitis

  • Natural variability in zygote dispersal of Ascophyllum nodosum at small spatial scales

    Steven R. Dudgeon;JE Kubler;JE Kubler;W.A. Wright;R.L. Vadas Sr.

  • Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe.

    Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Bazartseren Boldgiv;Bazartseren Boldgiv;Daniel S. Song;Laura A. Spence;Laura A. Spence

  • IMMOBILIZATION OF THE PREDATORY GASTROPOD, NUCELLA LAPILLUS, BY ITS PREY, MYTILUS EDULIS

    Peter S. Petraitis

  • Body size–density relationship for Mytilus edulis in an experimental food-regulated situation

    Marianne Alunno‐Bruscia;Peter S. Petraitis;Edwin Bourget;Marcel Fréchette

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Brenda B. Casper
Brenda B. Casper University of Pennsylvania
Brent R. Helliker
Brent R. Helliker University of Pennsylvania
Alain F. Plante
Alain F. Plante University of Pennsylvania
Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University
Arthur E. Dunham
Arthur E. Dunham University of Pennsylvania
J. Timothy Wootton
J. Timothy Wootton University of Chicago
Sergio A. Navarrete
Sergio A. Navarrete Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Kenneth L. Heck
Kenneth L. Heck University of South Alabama

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