Peter Chesson

Research interests

Publications

• Updates on mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity

  Journal of Ecology · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13035

• Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0904512106

• The interaction between predation and competition

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07248

• Forecasting the Effects of Global Warming on Biodiversity

  BioScience · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1641/b570306

• SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY EXPLAINS THE SCALE DEPENDENCE OF THE NATIVE–EXOTIC DIVERSITY RELATIONSHIP

  Ecology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1890/04-1196

• DIFFERENCES IN SEED BIOLOGY OF ANNUAL PLANTS IN ARID LANDS: A KEY INGREDIENT OF THE STORAGE EFFECT

  Ecology · 2005 · 10.1890/05-0304

• How the Spatial Scales of Dispersal, Competition, and Environmental Heterogeneity Interact to Affect Coexistence

  The American Naturalist · 2004 · 10.1086/424969

• Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments

  Oecologia · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-004-1551-1

• Local dispersal can facilitate coexistence in the presence of permanent spatial heterogeneity

  Ecology Letters · 2003 · 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00434.x

• The interaction between predation and competition: a review and synthesis

  Ecology Letters · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00315.x

• General Theory of Competitive Coexistence in Spatially-Varying Environments

  Theoretical Population Biology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.2000.1486

• Mechanisms of Maintenance of Species Diversity

  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.343

• The Roles of Harsh and Fluctuating Conditions in the Dynamics of Ecological Communities

  The American Naturalist · 1997 · https://doi.org/10.1086/286080

• Multispecies Competition in Variable Environments

  Theoretical Population Biology · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1006/tpbi.1994.1013

• A need for niches?

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1991 · 10.1016/0169-5347(91)90144-m

• The Persistence of Host-Parasitoid Associations in Patchy Environments. I. A General Criterion

  The American Naturalist · 1991 · 10.1086/285235

• MacArthur's consumer-resource model

  Theoretical Population Biology · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(90)90025-q

• Short-term instabilities and long-term community dynamics

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1989 · 10.1016/0169-5347(89)90024-4

• Aggregation of Risk: Relationships Among Host-Parasitoid Models

  The American Naturalist · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1086/284514

• Biological Control in Theory and Practice

  The American Naturalist · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1086/284347

• Coexistence of competitors in spatially and temporally varying environments: A look at the combined effects of different sorts of variability

  Theoretical Population Biology · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(85)90030-9

• Coexistence Mediated by Recruitment Fluctuations: A Field Guide to the Storage Effect

  The American Naturalist · 1985 · https://doi.org/10.1086/284379

• The stabilizing effect of a random environment

  Journal of Mathematical Biology · 1982 · 10.1007/bf00275786

• Environmental Variability Promotes Coexistence in Lottery Competitive Systems

  The American Naturalist · 1981 · https://doi.org/10.1086/283778

• Predator-Prey Theory and Variability

  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1978 · 10.1146/annurev.es.09.110178.001543

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