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Halton A. Peters
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 10
Citations - 706
Halton A. Peters is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Herbivore & Plant community. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 10 publications receiving 663 citations. Previous affiliations of Halton A. Peters include Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Neighbour-regulated mortality: the influence of positive and negative density dependence on tree populations in species-rich tropical forests
TL;DR: This study presents some of the first evidence of species herd protection operating in tree communities using an individual-based demographical approach to investigate the role of conspecific and heterospecific neighbourhood crowding on tree mortality in a Panamanian and a Malayan tropical forest.
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Feedbacks of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Climate Change
TL;DR: This paper showed that negative feedbacks from forest expansion are largely or completely compensated by positive feedback from decreased albedo, increased carbon emissions from thawed permafrost, and increased wildfire.
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Falling palm fronds structure amazonian rainforest sapling communities.
TL;DR: It is shown that senescent fronds of the palm Iriartea deltoidea cause substantial disturbance in tropical forest sapling communities, and the scale of this dominance suggests that falling I. deltoida debris may be influencing sapling community structure and species composition in Amazonian rainforests over very large spatial scales.
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Gastropod herbivory in response to elevated co2 and n addition impacts plant community composition
TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that shifting patterns of herbivory will likely influence species composition as environmental conditions change in the future; however, a simple trade-off between shifting growth rates and palatability is not evident.
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Herbivore control of annual grassland composition in current and future environments
Halton A. Peters,Halton A. Peters,Elsa E. Cleland,Elsa E. Cleland,Harold A. Mooney,Christopher B. Field +5 more
TL;DR: Changes in gastropod feeding preferences consistently explained global-change-induced responses of functional group abundance in an intact annual grassland exposed to simulated future environments, indicating that herbivore preferences can be a major driver of plant community responses to global changes.