Carr, S.C.,K.M. Robertson,W.J.Platt & R.K.Peet. A model of geographic, environmental and regional variation in vegetation composition of pyrogenic pinelands of Florida (submitted).

Jennings, M.D., D. Faber-Langendoen, O.L. Loucks, R.K. Peet, & D. Roberts. 2008. CharacterizingAssociations and Alliances of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Ecological Monographs (in press).

Jennings, M.D., D. Faber-Langendoen, R.K. Peet, O.L. Loucks, D.C. Glenn-Lewin, A. Damman, M.G. Barbour, R. Pfister, D.H. Grossman, D. Roberts,  D. Tart, M. Walker, S.S. Talbot, J. Walker, G.S. Hartshorn,  G. Waggoner, M.D. Abrams, A. Hill, M. Rejmank. 2008. Description, documentation, and evaluation of associations and alliances within the U.S. national vegetation classification. Special publication. Ecolgical Society of American, Washington, D.C. (in press). [Appendices]

Xi, W., R.K. Peet, J.K. DeCoster & D.L. Urban.2008. Tree damage risk factors associated with large, infrequent wind disturbances of Carolina forests. Forestry: An international journal for forest reearch (in press).

Franz, N. M., R. K. Peet & A. S. Weakley. 2008. On the use of taxonomic concepts in support of biodiversity research and taxonomy. Symposium Proceedings, The New Taxonomy (in press).

Brown, R.L. L.A. Jacobs and R.K. Peet. 2008. Species richness: small scale. Encyclopedia of LIfe Science. (in press). doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0020488

Xi, W., R.K. Peet and D.L. Urban. 2008. Changes in forest structure, species diversity, and spatial pattern following hurricane disturbance in a Piedmont North Carolina forest, USA. Journal of Plant Ecology 1: 43-57.

Xi, W. and R.K.Peet. 2008. Long-term studies of forest dynamics in the Duke Forest, southeastern United States: A synthesis. Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese version) 32(2):299-318.

Fridley, J.D., D.B. Vandermast, D.M. Kuppinger, M. Manthey, and R.K. Peet. 2007. Co-occurrence-based assessment of habitat generalists and specialists: a new approach for the measurement of niche width. Journal of Ecology 95:707-722.

Palmer, M.W., R.K. Peet, R.A. Reed, W. Xi, and P.S. White. 2007. A multiscale study of vascular plants in a North Carolina Piedmont forest. Ecology 88:2674. [see Ecological Archives E088-162.]

Fridley, J.D., R.K. Peet, E. van der Maarel, and J.H. Willems. 2006. Integration of local and regional species-area relationships from space-time species accumulation The American Naturalist 168:133-143.

Graves, J.H., R.K. Peet, and P.S. White. 2006. The influence of carbon - nutrient balance on herb and woody plant abundance in temperate forest understories. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 217-226.

Gilliam, F.S., W.J. Platt, and R.K. Peet. 2006. Natural disturbances and the physiognomy of pine savannas: a phenomenological model. Applied Vegetation Science 9:83-96.

Peet, R.K. 2006. Ecological classification of longleaf pine woodlands. In: Longleaf pine ecosystems: ecology, management, and restoration. S. Jose, E. Jokela and D. Miller. Eds. Springer, NY. Pp 51-94.

Fridley, J.D., R.K. Peet, T.R. Wentworth and P.S. White. 2005. Connecting fine- and broad-scale patterns of species diversity: species-area relationships of Southeastern U.S. flora. Ecology 86:1172-1177.

Taverna, K., R.K. Peet and L. Phillips. 2005. Long-term change in ground-layer vegetation of deciduous forests of the North Carolina Piedmont, USA. Journal of Ecology 93:202-213.

Peet, R.K. 2005. Crises and opportunities: A scientist’s view of scholarly communication.UNC Scholarly Communications Convocation. http://www.unc.edu/scholcomdig/whitepapers/peet.pdf

Peet, R.K. and S. Carr. 2004. Fire-adapted pineland vegetation of northern and central Florida: A framework for inventory, managemente and restoration. Final report for Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Project NG 98-016. 129pp.

Peet, R.K., J.D. Fridley and Joel M. Gramling. 2003. Variation in species richness and speices pool size across a pH gradient in forests of the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Folio Geobotanica 38:391-401.

Brown, R.L. and R.K. Peet. 2003. Diversity and invasibility of southern Appalachian plant communities. Ecology 84:32-39.

McDonald, R.I., R.K. Peet, and D.L. Urban. 2003. Spatial pattern of Quercus regeneration limitation and Acer rubrum invasion in a Piedmont forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 14:441-450.

McDonald, R.I., R.K. Peet, and D.L. Urban. 2002. Environmental correlates of oak decline and red maple increase in the North Carolina Piedmont. Castanea 67:84-95.

Peet, R.K. 2000. Forests of the Rocky Mountains. In M.G. Barbour and W.D. Billings (editors). North American terrestrial vegetation. Second edition. Cambridge University Press. pp 75-121. (Also fist edition 1988, pp 63-102.)

Newell, C.L., R.K. Peet, C.J. Ulrey, T.R. Wentworth, K.D. Patterson & D.E. McLeod. 1999. Geographic variation in forest distribution across five landscapes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North and South Carolina. In Biogeography of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Newell, C.L. and R.K. Peet. 1998. Vegetation of Linville Gorge Wilderness, North Carolina. Castanea 63: 275-322.

Peet, R.K., T.R. Wentworth and P.S. White. 1998. A flexible, multipurpose method for recording vegetation composition and structure. Castanea 63: 262-274.

Turner, M.G., W.L. Baker, C.J. Peterson & R.K. Peet. 1998. Factors influencing succession: Lessons from large, infrequent natural disturbances. Ecosystems 1: 511-523.

Platt, W.J. and R.K. Peet. 1998. Ecological concepts in conservation biology: Lessons from Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. Ecological Applications 8:907-909.

Wiser, S.K., R.K. Peet and P.S. White. 1998. Prediction of rare plant occurrences: A Southern Appalachian example. Ecological Applications 8: 909-920.Baker-Brosh, K. and R.K. Peet. 1997. The ecological significance of lobed and toothed leaves in temperate forest trees. Ecology 78: 1250-1255.

Wiser, S.K., R.K. Peet and P.S. White. 1996. High-elevation rock outcrop vegetation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of Vegetation Science 7: 703-722.

Box, E.O., R.K. Peet, T. Masuzawa, I. Yamada, K. Fujiwara and P.F. Maycock (editors). 1995. Vegetation Science in Forestry. Handbook of Vegetation Science 12/1. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. 663 pp.

Peet, R.K. and D.J. Allard. 1995. Longleaf pine vegetation of the Southern Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Coast regions: a preliminary classification. Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 18: 45-81.

Wilson, J.B., R.K. Peet and M.T. Sykes. 1995. What constitutes evidence of community structure? A reply to van der Maarel, Noest and Palmer. Journal of Vegetation Science 6: 753-758.

Wilson, J.B., M.T. Sykes and R.K. Peet 1995. Time and space in the community structure of a species-rich grassland. Journal of Vegetation Science 6: 729-740.

Walsh, S, F. Davis and R.K. Peet (editors). 1994. Applications of Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing in Vegetation Science. Oppulus Press, Uppsala. 147 pp.

Sykes, M.T., E. van der Maarel, R.K. Peet and J. Willems. 1994. High species mobility in species-rich plant communities: an intercontinental comparison. Folia Geobotanica Phytotaxonomica 29: 439-448.

Reed, R.A., R.K. Peet, M.W. Palmer and P.S. White. 1993. Scale dependence of vegetation-environment correlations in a Piedmont woodland, North Carolina, USA. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 329-340.

Willems, J.H., R.K. Peet and L. Bik. 1993. Differences in chalk grassland structure and species richness resulting from selective nutrient additions. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 203-212.

Zobel, K., M. Zobel and R.K. Peet. 1993. Changes in pattern diversity during secondary forest succession in Jarvselja, Southeast Estonia. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 489-498.

Glenn-Lewin, D.C., R.K. Peet and T.T. Veblen (editors). 1992. Plant succession: theory and prediction. Chapman and Hall, London.

Peet, R.K. 1992. Community structure and ecosystem properties. Pages 102-151 in D.C. Glenn-Lewin, R.K. Peet and T.T. Veblen (editors). Plant succession: theory and prediction. Chapman and Hall, London.

Allen, R.B., R.K. Peet and W.L. Baker. 1991. Gradient analysis of latitudinal variation in Southern Rocky Mountain forests. Journal of Biogeography 18: 123-139.

Allen, R.B. and R.K. Peet. 1990. Gradient analysis of forests of the Sangre de Cristo Range, Colorado. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 193-201.

Knox, R.G., R.K. Peet, and N.L. Christensen. 1989. Population dynamics in loblolly pine stands: changes in skewness and size inequality. Ecology 70: 1153-1166.

Knox, R.G. and R.K. Peet. 1989. Bootstrapped ordination: A method for estimating sampling effects in indirect gradient analysis. Vegetatio 80: 153-165.

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1988. Changes in species diversity during secondary forest succession on the North Carolina piedmont. Pages 233-245 in H.J. During, M.J.A. Werger, and J.H. Willems (editors). Diversity and pattern in plant communities. SPB Academic Publishing. The Hague.

Peet, R.K., R.G. Knox, J.S. Case, and R.B. Allen. 1988. Putting things in order: The advantages of detrended correspondence analysis. The American Naturalist 131: 924-934.

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1987. Competition and tree death. BioScience 37: 586-595.

Peet, R.K. (editor). 1985. Plant community ecology: Papers in honor of Robert H. Whittaker. Junk, The Hague. 332 pp.

Christensen, N.L. and R.K. Peet. 1984. Convergence during secondary forest succession. Journal of Ecology 72: 25-36.

Walker, J. W. and R.K. Peet. 1984. Composition and species diversity of pine - wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina. Vegetatio 55: 163-179.

Parker, A.J. and R.K. Peet. 1984. Size and age structure of conifer forests. Ecology 65: 1685-1689.

Peet, R. K. 1984. Twenty-six years of change in a Pinus strobus, Acer saccharum forest, Lake Itasca, Minnesota. The Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 111: 61-68.

Westman, W.E. and R.K. Peet. 1982. Robert H. Whittaker (1920-1980): The man and his work. Vegetatio 48: 97-122.

Peet, R.K. 1981. Forest vegetation of the northern Colorado Front Range: Composition and dynamics. Vegetatio 45: 3-75.

Christensen, N.L. and R.K. Peet. 1981. Secondary forest succession on the North Carolina piedmont. Pages 230-245 in D. West, H. Shugart and D. Botkin (editors). Forest Succession: Concept and applications. Springer-Verlag, NY

Peet, R.K. 1981. Changes in biomass and production during secondary forest succession. Pages 324-338 in D. West, H. Shugart and D. Botkin (editors). Forest succession: Concept and applications. Springer-Verlag, NY.

Peet, R.K. 1980. Ordination as a tool for analyzing complex data sets. Vegetatio 42: 171-174

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1980. Succession: A population process. Vegetatio 43: 131-140.

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1980. Hardwood forest vegetation of the North Carolina piedmont. Veröff. Geobot. Inst. ETH Stiftung Rübel 69: 14-39.

Peet, R.K. 1978. Forest vegetation of the Colorado Front Range: Patterns of species diversity. Vegetatio 37: 65-78.

Peet, R.K. 1978. Ecosystem convergence. American Naturalist 112: 441-444.

Peet, R.K. 1978. Latitudinal variation in southern Rocky Mountain forests. Journal of Biogeography 5: 275-289.

Peet, R.K. and O.L. Loucks. 1977. A gradient analysis of southern Wisconsin upland forests. Ecology 58: 485-499.

Peet, R.K. 1974. The measurement of species diversity. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 5: 285-307. [Citation Classic]

Selected examples of recent (2002-2007) participation in National & International Meetings

2007. Fire-maintained longleaf pine: A case study in implementing the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, San Jose, CA

2007. Anthropogenic alteration of hydrology and sedimentation of the lower Roanoke River watershed, USA. Annual meeting of the International Association for Vegetation Science, Swansea, Wales.

2007. The VegBank data model and XML schema. International exchange standards for vegetation plot data. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC.

2007. A vision for community involement and integration. Meeting of the NSF Research Coordination network: SE Regional network of expertise and collections. Columbia, SC.

2007. Names are not sufficient: the challenge of documenting organism identity. Meeting of the NSF Research Coordination network: SE Regional network of expertise and collections. Columbia, SC.

2007. A new floristic atlas for the Southeast based on taxon concept relationships. Radford memorial symposium. Association of Southeastern Biologists annual meeting, Columbia, SC.

2007. Data sharing and exchange: Experiences within the Ecological Society of America. Allen Press Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Seminar.  All Together Now: Scholarly Communication and the Power of Online Communities.  Here, There, and Everywhere: The Great Promise of Research Data Commons.

2006. Vegetation databases: Lessons from VegBank, SEEK, TDWG, IAVS & NCEAS. Center for Tropical Forest Science, Database Advisory Meeting, Panama City, Panama.

2006. VegBank and the ESA Cyber-infrastructure for Vegetation Science. Data Centers for Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA.

2006. VegBank and the ESA Cyber-infrastructure for Vegetation Science  Ecoinformatics. 5th International Conference on Ecological Informatics ISEI5, Santa Barbara, CA.

2006. Transition to taxon concepts from a world of legacy data. Biodiversity Information Standards annual meeting. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO.

2006. Taxonomic databases: The SEEK and VegBank experience. Developing and integrating taxonomic databases for the 21st century. National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC.

2006. Templates for ecological restoration. Symposium on ecological restoration, Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Memphis, TN.

2006. Names are not sufficient: the challenge of documenting organism identity. Symposium on Herbarium Informatics:  Community Standards and Research Questions. Association of Southeastern Biologists. Gatlinburg, TN.

2005. An information infrastructure for vegetation classification and documentation.  National GAP meeting and Interagency Symposium.  Reno, NV.

2005. Names are not sufficient: The challenge of documenting organism identity in ecological research. Ecological Society of America. Montreal.

2005. North American initiatives in Ecoinformatics: VegBank and Seek. Fourth international workshop on vegetation databanks. Halle, Germany.

2005. Scholarly communications in a digital world: A convocation. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2004. EcoInformatics and Vegetation Science. Keynote address, symposium on EcoInformations. International Association for Vegetation Science. Kona, Hawai'i.

2004. Accumulation of local biodiversity in space-time: solving Preston's riddle. Poster - ESA Annual Meeting. Portland Oregon. With Jason Fridley.

2004. Plant Systematics databases: Users perspectives. NSF Workshop on establishing a comprehensive database for plant systematics. Gainesville, FL

2004. The VegBank taxonomic datamodel. SEEK Taxon meeting, NCEAS, Santa Barbara, CA

2003. The VegBank taxonomic datamodel. TDWG meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

2003. Organizer and speaker. Symposium on "Databases and information systems for vegetation science.". International Association for Vegetation Science. Naples, Italy.

2003. Speaker. ESA Symposium. Construction of templates for restoration of longleaf pine ecosystems.

2002. Organizer and speaker. ESA Workshop on VegBank. Tucson, AZ.

2002. VegBank: A vegetation field plot archive. NBII All-Node meeting. Davis, CA

2002. The VegBank Taxonomic datamodel. NBII All-Node meeting. Davis, CA