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Richard B. Primack

Richard B. Primack

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
32592
World Ranking
579
National Ranking
203

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard B. Primack is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. A significant portion of their work focuses on subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Primack's main topics of study include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Animal and Plant Science Education, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, and COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies.

They have contributed to multiple papers, including:

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a "Global Human Confinement Experiment" to investigate biodiversity conservation, 2020, Biological Conservation
  • Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top-publishing ecologists, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment, 2021, Biological Conservation

Frequent co-authors of Primack include Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Tara K. Miller, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Amanda S. Gallinat, and J. Mason Heberling.

Their works are often published in venues such as Biological Conservation, New Phytologist, International Journal of Biometeorology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Richard B. Primack was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Essentials of Conservation Biology

    Richard B. Primack

  • Biologia da conservação

    Richard B Primack;Efraim Rodrigues

  • Phylogenetic patterns of species loss in Thoreau's woods are driven by climate change

    Charles G. Willis;Brad Ruhfel;Richard B. Primack;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing

  • The history of public participation in ecological research

    Abraham Miller-Rushing;Richard Primack;Rick Bonney

  • GLOBAL WARMING AND FLOWERING TIMES IN THOREAU'S CONCORD: A COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE

    Abraham J. Miller-Rushing;Richard B. Primack

  • A Primer of Conservation Biology

    Richard B. Primack

  • Longevity of individual flowers

    R B Primack

  • COMMUNITY STUDIES IN POLLINATION ECOLOGY IN THE HIGH TEMPERATE ANDES OF CENTRAL CHILE. I. POLLINATION MECHANISMS AND ALTITUDINAL VARIATION

    Mary T. Kalin Arroyo;Richard Primack;Juan Armesto

  • Leaf‐out phenology of temperate woody plants: from trees to ecosystems

    Caroline A. Polgar;Richard B. Primack

  • RELATIONSHIPS AMONG FLOWERS, FRUITS, AND SEEDS

    Richard B. Primack

  • COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife.

    Christian Rutz;Christian Rutz;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Matthias-Claudio Loretto;Amanda E. Bates;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson

  • Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research

    Amanda S. Gallinat;Richard B. Primack;David L. Wagner

  • The effects of climate change on tropical birds

    Çağan H. Şekercioğlu;Richard B. Primack;Janice Wormworth

  • Herbarium specimens demonstrate earlier flowering times in response to warming in Boston

    Daniel Primack;Carolyn Imbres;Richard B. Primack;Abraham J. Miller-Rushing

  • Dispersal Can Limit Local Plant Distribution

    Richard B. Primack;S.L. Miao

  • Community studies in pollination ecology in the high temperate Andes of Central Chile. II: Effect of temperature on visitation rates and pollination possibilities

    Mary T. Kalin Arroyo;Juan J. Armesto;Richard B. Primack

  • Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

    Barnabas H. Daru;Daniel S. Park;Richard B. Primack;Charles G. Willis

  • Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome

    Martin J. P. Sullivan;Joey Talbot;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Oliver L. Phillips

  • Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation.

    Richard T. Corlett;Richard B. Primack;Vincent Devictor;Bea Maas

  • Restoration Biology: A Population Biology Perspective

    Arlee M. Montalvo;Susan L. Williams;Kevin J. Rice;Stephen L. Buchmann

  • Essentials of Conservation Biology

    George Wuerthner;Richard B. Primack

Frequent Co-Authors

Abraham J. Miller-Rushing
Abraham J. Miller-Rushing National Park Service
Richard T. Corlett
Richard T. Corlett Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Charles C. Davis
Charles C. Davis Harvard University
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Terry Sunderland
Terry Sunderland University of British Columbia
Peter S. Ashton
Peter S. Ashton Harvard University
Vincent Devictor
Vincent Devictor University of Montpellier
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Kanehiro Kitayama
Kanehiro Kitayama Kyoto University

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