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1281
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474

Robert K. Peet publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert K. Peet sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 200 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Robert K. Peet D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Robert K. Peet sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Robert K. Peet is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with substantial contributions in several related subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's work covers various main topics such as:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Robert K. Peet has coauthored frequently with several researchers, notably:

  • Susan K. Wiser
  • Jens-Christian Svenning
  • Brody Sandel
  • Jiří Doležal
  • Brian J. Enquist

The most common venues for their publications include:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology
  • Vegetation Classification and Survey

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert K. Peet are:

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • A review of the heterogeneous landscape of biodiversity databases: Opportunities and challenges for a synthesized biodiversity knowledge base, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide, 2021, Journal of Biogeography

Over the course of their career, Robert K. Peet has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1984.

Best Publications

  • The Measurement of Species Diversity

    Robert K. Peet

  • Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances

    Monica G. Turner;William L. Baker;Christopher J. Peterson;Robert K. Peet

  • Plant species richness: the world records

    J. Bastow Wilson;Robert K. Peet;Jürgen Dengler;Meelis Pärtel

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Plant succession : theory and prediction

    David C. Glenn-Lewin;Robert K. Peet;Thomas T. Veblen

  • A Flexible, Multipurpose Method for Recording Vegetation Composition and Structure

    Robert K. Peet;Thomas R. Wentworth;Peter S. White

  • Competition and Tree Death

    Robert K. Peet;Norman L. Christensen

  • The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names

    Brad Boyle;Nicole Hopkins;Zhenyuan Lu;Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay

  • How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: Lessons from the North American Coastal Plain

    Reed F. Noss;William J. Platt;Bruce A. Sorrie;Alan S. Weakley

  • Forest vegetation of the Colorado Front Range

    Robert K. Peet

  • Forests of the Rocky Mountains

    Robert K Peet

  • SUCCESSION: A POPULATION PROCESS

    Robert K. Peet;Norman L. Christensen

  • Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient.

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

  • Composition and species diversity of pine-wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina

    Joan Walker;Robert K. Peet

  • DIVERSITY AND INVASIBILITY OF SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN PLANT COMMUNITIES

    Rebecca L. Brown;Robert K. Peet

  • The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science

    Jürgen Dengler;Florian Jansen;Falko Glöckler;Robert K. Peet

  • 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

  • CONVERGENCE DURING SECONDARY FOREST SUCCESSION

    N. L. Christensen;Robert K Peet

  • RELATIVE DIVERSITY INDICES

    Robert K. Peet

  • Changes in chalk-grassland structure and species richness resulting from selective nutrient additions

    J. H. Willems;Robert K Peet;L. Bik

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Susan K. Wiser
Susan K. Wiser Landcare Research
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Brian J. McGill
Brian J. McGill University of Maine
Nathan J. B. Kraft
Nathan J. B. Kraft University of California, Los Angeles
Peter M. Jørgensen
Peter M. Jørgensen Missouri Botanical Garden

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