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A. Townsend Peterson

American Museum of Natural History ORCID

882

Works

88,547

Citations

119

h-index

521

i10-index

Research Topics

Species Distribution and Climate Change Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Affiliations

Dartmouth College2005–2005

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2022–2022

California Institute of Technology2000–2000

Rush University Medical Center2023–2023

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2004–2006

Top Works

Novel methods improve prediction of species’ distributions from occurrence data

Jane Elith,Catherine H. Graham,et al.

20069,008 citations

Plant and animal studies

Genetic diversity and population structure

Extinction risk from climate change

Chris D. Thomas,A. Cameron,et al.

20047,579 citations

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Predicting species distributions from small numbers of occurrence records: a test case using cryptic geckos in Madagascar

Richard G. Pearson,Christopher J. Raxworthy,et al.

20063,072 citations

Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models

Mary S. Wisz,Robert J. Hijmans,et al.

20082,439 citations

Climate Change and Forest Disturbances

Virginia H. Dale,Linda A. Joyce,et al.

20012,214 citations

Interpretation of Models of Fundamental Ecological Niches and Species’ Distributional Areas

Jorge Soberón,A. Townsend Peterson

20052,120 citations

The crucial role of the accessible area in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling

Narayani Barve,Vijay Barve,et al.

20111,791 citations

Ecological Niches and Geographic Distributions (MPB-49)

A. Townsend Peterson,Jorge Soberón,et al.

20111,749 citations

Rethinking receiver operating characteristic analysis applications in ecological niche modeling

A. Townsend Peterson,Monica Papeş,et al.

20081,684 citations