Franklin, S., D. Faber-Langendoen, M. Jennings, T. Keeler-Wolf, O.L. Loucks, A. McKerrow, R. Peet, D. Roberts & A. McKerrow. 2012. Building the United States National Vegetation Classification. Annali di Botanica 2:1-9.

Wilson, J.B., R.K. Peet J. Dengler, M. Pärtel. 2012. Plant species richness: the world records. Journal of Vegetation Science
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01400.x

Xi, W., R.K. Peet, D.L. Urban. 2012. The Impacts of a Large, Infrequent Hurricane on Understory Sapling Dynamics and Diversity in North Carolina Piedmont Forests, USA. In: Xi W-M (Ed.), Forest Restoration. Tree and Forestry Science and Biotechnology 6 (Special Issue 1), 51-59.

Peet, R.K., M.T. Lee, M.D. Jennings, & D. Faber-Langendoen, D. 2012. VegBank: A Permanent, Open-Access Archive for Vegetation Plot Data. Biodiversity and Ecology (in press).

Costanza, J.K., A. Moody & R.K. Peet. 2011. Multi-scale environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness. Landscape Ecology 26:851-864.

Matthews, E.M., R.K. Peet & A.S. Weakley. 2011. Classification and description of aluvial plant communities of the Piedmont region. North Carolina, .U.S.A. Applied Vegetation Science 14:485-505.

Dengler, J., J. Ewald, I Kuhn & R.K. Peet. 2011.Ecoinformatics and global change -- an overdue liaison. Journal of Vegetation Sciences 22:577-581.

Dengler, J., Jansen, F., Glöckler, F., Peet, R.K., De Cáceres, M., Chytrý,M., Ewald, J., Oldeland, J., Finckh, M., Mucina, M., Schaminée, J.H.J., & Spencer, S. 2011. The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases: a new resource for vegetation science. Journal of Vegetatio Science 22:582-597.

Wiser, S.K., N. Spencer, M. De Caceres, M. Kleikamp, B. Boyle, & R.K. Peet. 2011. Veg-X -- An international exchange standard for plot-based vegetation data. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:598-609.

Manthey M., J.D. Fridley & R.K. Peet. 2011. Niche expansion from past species extinctions? A comparative assessment of habitat generalists and specialists in the tree floras of Southeastern North America and Southeastern Europe. Journal of Biogeography 38:840-853.

Xi, Weimin & R. K. Peet. 2011. The complexity of catastrophic wind impacts on temperate forests. In Anthony Lupo (ed.). Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics and Sociatal Impacts. Pp 503-534. ISBN 978-953-307-238-8. IN-TECH, Vienna, Austria. Available from:http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/the-complexity-of-catastrophic-wind-impacts-on-temperate-forests.

Carr, S.C.,K.M. Robertson & R.K.Peet. 2010. A vegetation classification of fire-dependent pinelands of Florida. Castanea 75:153-189.

Fridley, J.D., A.R. Senft & R.K. Peet, R.K. 2009. Vegetation structure of field margins and adjacent forests in agricultural landscapes of the North Carolina Piedmont (USA). Castanea 74:327-339.

Carr, S.C.,K.M. Robertson,W.J.Platt & R.K.Peet. 2009. A model of geographic, environmental and regional variation in vegetation composition of pyrogenic pinelands of Florida. Journal of Biogeography 36:1600-1612.

Hupp, C.R., E.R. Schenk, J.M. Richter, R.K. Peet, & P.A. Townsend. 2009. Bank erosion along the dam-regulated lower Roanoke River, North Carolina. Chapter 6 In L.A. James, S.L. Rathburn and G.R. Whittecar (eds.). Management and restoration of fluvial systems with boad historical changes and human impacts. Geological Society of America Special Paper 451:97-108.

Franz, N.M. and R.K. Peet. 2009. Towards a language for mapping relationships among taxonomic concepts. Systematics and Biodiversity 7:5-20.

Jennings, M.D., D. Faber-Langendoen, O.L. Loucks, R.K. Peet, & D. Roberts. 2009. Characterizing Associations and Alliances of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification. Ecological Monographs 79:173-199.

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. Ecological Society of American, Washington, D.C. [Appendices]

Peet, R.K. 2008. A decade of effort by the ESA Vegetation Panel leads to a new federal standard. ESA Bulletin 89(3):210-211.

Xi, W. and R.K. Peet. 2008. Hurricane effects on the Piedmont forests: patterns and implications. Ecological Restoration 26:295-298.

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 81:317-334.

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, In:Wheeler, Q. D.,Ed., The New Taxonomy. Systematics Association Special Volume (74). Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 63–86.

Brown, R.L. L.A. Jacobs and R.K. Peet. 2008. Species richness: small scale. Encyclopedia of LIfe Science. 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. R.P. Eckerlin, ed. Proceedings of the Appalachian Biogeography Symposium. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 7, pp. 19-33. Martinsville, Virginia.

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.

Wentworth, T.R., M.P. Schafale, A.S. Weakley, R.K. Peet, P.S. White, and C.C. Frost. 1993. A Preliminary classification of North Carolina barrier island forests. Pages 31-46 in: C. A. Cole and F. K. Turner, editors. Barrier island ecology of the mid-Atlantic coast: A symposium. USDI National Park Service. Technical Report NPS/SERCAHA/NRTR-93/04. Atlanta, GA.

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]