Peter A. H. Westley

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Peter A. H. Westley is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter A. H. Westley has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 27 papers in Ecology and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Peter A. H. Westley's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (44 papers), Marine and fisheries research (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). Peter A. H. Westley is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (44 papers), Marine and fisheries research (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). Peter A. H. Westley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Peter A. H. Westley's co-authors include Curry J. Cunningham, Stephanie M. Carlson, Thomas P. Quinn, Andrew M. Berdahl, Ian Fleming, Andrew H. Dittman, Iain D. Couzin, Dora Biro, Eric J. Ward and Milo D. Adkison and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Peter A. H. Westley

52 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evolutionary rescue in a changing world

2014 458 citations Stephanie M. Carlson, Curry J. Cunningham et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter A. H. Westley United States	21	877	780	499	443	373	57	1.7k
Gregor Kalinkat Germany	21	744 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	348 0.7×	498 1.1×	700 1.9×	32	2.1k
Ronald D. Bassar United States	23	978 1.1×	1.3k 1.7×	497 1.0×	336 0.8×	987 2.6×	54	2.1k
Justin D. Yeakel United States	20	552 0.6×	954 1.2×	259 0.5×	321 0.7×	482 1.3×	41	1.8k
Keith D. Farnsworth United Kingdom	28	995 1.1×	1.4k 1.8×	293 0.6×	800 1.8×	407 1.1×	63	2.5k
David S. Boukal Czechia	25	1.4k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	761 1.5×	1.1k 2.6×	719 1.9×	79	3.1k
Marissa L. Baskett United States	30	775 0.9×	1.5k 1.9×	411 0.8×	1.2k 2.8×	471 1.3×	75	2.4k
David E. Wooster United States	14	975 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	229 0.5×	469 1.1×	804 2.2×	27	2.2k
Matı́as Arim Uruguay	26	953 1.1×	1.8k 2.3×	450 0.9×	800 1.8×	965 2.6×	80	3.0k
Sandra J. Walde Canada	32	1.4k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	633 1.3×	340 0.8×	633 1.7×	65	2.8k
James D. Austin United States	26	605 0.7×	881 1.1×	709 1.4×	606 1.4×	384 1.0×	102	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter A. H. Westley

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20 of 20 papers shown

Westley, Peter A. H., et al.. (2025). In and out: factors influencing two decades of straying and homing by Pacific salmon within the Columbia River basin. Royal Society Open Science. 12(8). 250447–250447.

Ohlberger, Jan, et al.. (2025). A Synthesis of Factors Related to Trends in Abundance and Demography of Alaska Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Salmonidae): Implications for Research, Management, and Policy. Fish and Fisheries. 26(4). 520–532.

Gruenthal, Kristen M., Jeffrey J. Hard, William D. Templin, et al.. (2024). Salmon hatchery strays can demographically boost wild populations at the cost of diversity: quantitative genetic modelling of Alaska pink salmon. Royal Society Open Science. 11(7). 240455–240455. 5 indexed citations

Wooller, Matthew J., et al.. (2024). Estuarine dispersal of an invasive Holarctic predator (Esox lucius) confirmed in North America. PLoS ONE. 19(12). e0315320–e0315320.

Westley, Peter A. H., et al.. (2024). The cost of hatchery straying: an economic case study on Alaska pink salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 82. 1–6.

Morris, Jeffrey M., et al.. (2023). Acute Toxicity of Copper to Three Species of Pacific Salmon Fry in Water with Low Hardness and Low Dissolved Organic Carbon. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 42(11). 2440–2452. 2 indexed citations

Rand, Peter S., et al.. (2023). Tidal gradients, fine‐scale homing and a potential cryptic ecotype of wild spawning pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha). Molecular Ecology. 32(21). 5838–5848. 6 indexed citations

Westley, Peter A. H., et al.. (2022). Ecotoxicology of mercury in burbot (Lota lota) from interior Alaska and insights towards human health. Chemosphere. 298. 134279–134279. 4 indexed citations

Falke, Jeffrey A., et al.. (2021). Vulnerability of Pacific salmon to invasion of northern pike (Esox lucius) in Southcentral Alaska. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254097–e0254097. 15 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Curry J., et al.. (2021). Can late stage marine mortality explain observed shifts in age structure of Chinook salmon?. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0247370–e0247370. 16 indexed citations

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Keefer, Matthew L., et al.. (2020). Collective navigation can facilitate passage through human-made barriers by homeward migrating Pacific salmon. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1937). 20202137–20202137. 20 indexed citations

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Oke, Krista B., Curry J. Cunningham, Peter A. H. Westley, et al.. (2020). Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4155–4155. 123 indexed citations

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Goldman, Kenneth J., et al.. (2019). Prey consumption estimates for salmon sharks. Marine and Freshwater Research. 70(6). 824–833. 7 indexed citations

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Berdahl, Andrew M., Albert B. Kao, Andrea Flack, et al.. (2018). Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1746). 20170009–20170009. 142 indexed citations

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Yeakel, Justin D., Jean P. Gibert, Thilo Groß, Peter A. H. Westley, & Jonathan W. Moore. (2018). Eco-evolutionary dynamics, density-dependent dispersal and collective behaviour: implications for salmon metapopulation robustness. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1746). 20170018–20170018. 30 indexed citations

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Falke, Jeffrey A., Thomas P. Quinn, Milo D. Adkison, et al.. (2018). Influences of spawning timing, water temperature, and climatic warming on early life history phenology in western Alaska sockeye salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 76(1). 123–135. 20 indexed citations

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Carlson, Stephanie M., Curry J. Cunningham, & Peter A. H. Westley. (2014). Evolutionary rescue in a changing world. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29(9). 521–530. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oke, Krista B., et al.. (2013). Hybridization between genetically modified Atlantic salmon and wild brown trout reveals novel ecological interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1763). 20131047–20131047. 24 indexed citations

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Westley, Peter A. H., et al.. (2012). Phenotypic divergence of exotic fish populations is shaped by spatial proximity and habitat differences across an invaded landscape. Evolutionary ecology research. 14(2). 147–167. 11 indexed citations

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Westley, Peter A. H., Daniel E. Schindler, Thomas P. Quinn, Gregory T. Ruggerone, & Ray Hilborn. (2009). Natural habitat change, commercial fishing, climate, and dispersal interact to restructure an Alaskan fish metacommunity. Oecologia. 163(2). 471–484. 17 indexed citations

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